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The CONCLUSION. How to know, what our Sentence will be at the last Iudgment: With an Exhor∣tation to Reverence our own Consciences.
HAving thus largely discoursed con∣cerning a Future Judgment, I need not mind you of what Concernment it is, to know what Sentence Christ will pass on us at that Day; whether Come ye blessed of my Father, or, Go ye cursed into everlasting fire. For if we must be hap∣py or miserable for ever, how can we content our selves to live in doubt and suspence, which of these shall be our Por∣tion? What a Hell is this to live in per∣petual fear of Hell? How can we sleep without dreaming of Lakes of Fire and Brimstone, without the frightful Appari∣tions of damned Spirits! what a transpor∣ting foretast would it give us of the Joys of Heaven to read our Names written in the Book of Life! to see a Crown, a bright and glorious Crown prepared for us! But how shall we know this? Who shall search the Records of Heaven for us? The An∣swer