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III.
The day of Judgment is not only of all days the most dreadful, but the most joyful also.
The righteous, and the holy, and the just shall appear in glorified bodies, encir∣cled with the shining rays of excessive light; but the wicked in bodies, or carcasses rather both hideous and loathsome.
To the impenitent and wicked of the world, 'tis a day of the greatest terror; but to the holy and humble of heart and life, a day of Jubilee and greatest joy: a day of shame and confusion to the one, of glory and consolation to the other.
How great then shall be the glory of the holy Christian; and how great the shame of infidelity and Atheism! how great the joy of the true Believer, whose Faith has been fruitful in all good words; and how great the sorrow of the Heretick, Hypocrite, the profane and dissolute! for then, and not fully till then shall God render to every man according to his works.
To them who by patient continuing in well doing, do seek for glory, and honour, and im∣mortality: eternal life.
But to them who are contentious, [unspec 8,] and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness: indig∣nation and wrath.
Tribulation, [unspec 9,] and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.
But glory, [unspec 10,] honour and peace, to every man that worketh good.