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HERE
AND
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death
the judgment.
Rom.
xiv.
10...
and
2
Cor.
v.
10.
We
must
all
appear
Lfóre
the
judgment
-seat
of
Christ.
The
angels
sha.11,gather
the elect
from
the four
quarters
of
the
world,
and bring them
near
to
the
judge
with
pleasure; but
sinners
shall
be
dragged toward
that
awful,
tribunal, and
be
forced to
abide the trial.
While
the believer, who walks
in lively
faith,
says,
"
When
shall
I
come
into that
world
of
spirits,
and
appear
there,before
God
?"
the sinner
wishes
that
day
may
never
come:
"
O
that
I
might
live
for ever on
earth
!
that
I
might for ever converse
with men,
and never
see
the face
of
that ,God
who
hates
me,
and
whom
I
have
never
loved.
O
that
death
might make an
utter
end
of
me
!
O
that
the
grave would cover
me
for ever,
that
I might
rise no more." And
when
that
dreadful
day
comes,
then,
"
Tall on
us,
rocks
;
then,
mountains
press
us down,
and
conceal
us
for
ever
from the wrath
of
God
and the
Lan3b
:"
as
in
Rev.
vi. 15, 16.
that
outcry
is
represent-
ed.
Ï
But
they
must stand
and
see
the
terror;
they
are
constrained to
hear
the glorious
and dreadful sentence.
Dost thou
believe
this,
O
my soul
!
and
canst
thou
be
content
to
live
unprepared
for the solemnities
of
this
day?
2.
Here
sinners
appear
like the saints
of
God,
in
dis-
guise; but
there
as
sinners, openly
guilty,
and exposed
to
light
:
Here not
separated
from the saints in the place
of
worship,
there
sufficiently
distinguished and divided
from all who love
God,,
and
that
worship
him
in
spirit:
For
when
a sinful soul goes
out of
the body to
appear
be-
fore
God, every angel
in
heaven
knows, him
;
he
is
naked without
a
covering
of
disguise, as
well:
as
without
the covering
of
a justifying righteousness; and
upon'this
account
he
appears
all guilty,
not
only before
the
search-
ing eye
of God,
and
the
terror of
his
anger,
but
also be-
fore the blessed
spirits
who
are near the throne. Herd
those
who
are
in
the same assembly,
know
not
whether
we
are the children
of
God, or the
children:
of
the
devil:
but
in
the world
of
spirits, all
the children.
of
Satan
are
as much
distinguished
from
the children
of God:as
an
an-
gel
'of
light
is
from a
spirit
of
darkness.
This
flesh is
a disguise
to the
soul,
a thick cloud
to
cover
a thousand hypocrisies; but at the great
day
the
naked soul must
be
known
:
All
nations
shall
be
gather
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