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be otherwise than miserable, in another life, by a 

 necessity of nature : since there never can be any 

 alteration of his condition, without such a change 

 of the whole man, as would put the natural and 

 settled order of the creation out of course. 



With respect to these rewards and punishments' 

 we have these farther revelations : that the very Day 

 is appointed ly God, in which He will judge the 

 world in righteousness, ly the Man, whom he hath 

 erdained ; that he hath committed all judgment to 

 the Son ; and that all mankind must come upon 

 their trial at once. The glorious pomp and majesty 

 of his appearance, the awful solemnity of the v\hole 

 procedure, nay, the very words of the sentence, both 

 on the just, and on the unjust, are discovered to us. 

 It is farther revealed, that in this day of God, while 

 he descendeth with ten thousands of his angels, the 

 heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the ele- 

 ments shall melt with fervent heat. These are the 

 terrors of the Lord, which are sufficient to make the 

 stout-hearted tremble, and are such motives to all 

 holiness of heart, and holiness of conversation, as 

 nothing but infidelity, or wilful want of consideration, 

 can render ineffectual. 



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. AVING now, as my leisure and abilities per- 

 mitted, taken a Survey of the Wisdom of God in 



