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knoweth, that all may watch and pray, and be ever ready for the coming of the Lord".

Q. 89. What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?

A. At the day of judgment, the wicked shall be fet on Chrift's left hand, and upon clear evidence, and full conviction of their own confciences, fhall have the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced against them; and thereupon fhall be caft out from the favourable prefence of God, and the glorious fellowfhip with Chrift, his faints, and all his holy angels, into hell, to be punished with unspeakable torments both of body and foul, with the devil and his angels for ever".

hell, and delivered them into chains of darknefs, to be referved unto judgment. 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the judgment-feat of Chrift; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Rev. 20. 12.

z Mat. 24. 36, 42, 44. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Therefore be ye alfo ready for in fuch an hour as ye think not the Son of man rometh. Luke 21 35, 36.

a Mat. 23. 33. And he fhall

fet the fheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

b Rom. 2. 15, 16. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience alfo bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or else excufing one another. In the day when God fhall judge the fecrets of all men by Jefus Christ, according to my gospel.

c Mat. 25. 41, 42, 43. Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand. Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat.

d Mat. 25. 46. And these fhall go away into everlasting

Q. 90. What fall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?

A. At the day of judgment, the righteous, being caught up to Chrift in the clouds, shall be fet on his right hand, and there openly acknowledged and acquitted, fhall join with him in the judging of reprobate angels and men : and fhall be received into heaven", where they shall be fully and for ever freed from all fin and mifery; filled with inconceivable joys1; made perfectly holy and happy both in body and soul, in the company of innumerable faints and angels', but especially in the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father, of our Lord Jefus Christ,

punishment. 2 Thef. 1. 8, 9. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jefus Chrift: Who fhall be punished with everJafting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Luke 16. 16. John 3. 36. Mark 9. 43. 44. Mark 14. 21.

e 1 Theff. 4. 17. Then we which are alive, and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.

f Mat. 25. 33. And he fhall fet the fheep on his right hand. Mat. 10. 32. Whofoever therefore fhall confefs me before men, him will I confefs alfo before my Father who is in

heaven.

g 1 Cor. 62, 3. Do ye not

know that the faints fhall judge the world? Know ye not that we shall judge angels?

h Mat. 25. 34, 46. Then fhall the King fay unto them on his right hand, Come ye bleffed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. But the righteous into life eternal.

i Eph. 5. 27. That he might prefent it to himself a glorious church, not having fpot or wrinkle. Rev. 21. 17. and 7. 17. And God fhall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Rev. 14. 15.

k Pfa. 16. II. Thou wilt fhew me the path of life; in thy prefence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand are pleasures for

evermore. I Cor. 2. 9.

1 Heb. 12, 22, 23. But ye

and of the Holy Spirit to all eternity". And this is the perfect and full communion, which the members of the invisible church fhall enjoy with Chrift in glory, at the refurrection and day of judgment.

are come unto mouut Zion,
and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerufalem,
and to an innumerable com-
pany of angels, to the general
affembly and church of the first-
born, which are written in
heaven, and to God the judge
of all, and to the fpirits of juft
men made perfect,
m 1 John 3.
2. Beloved,
now are we the fons of God,
and it doth not yet appear

what we fhall be but we know that when he shall appear we fhall be like him; for we fhall fee him as he is. 1 Cor. 13. 12. For now we fee through a glafs darkly; but then face to face: Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as alfo I am known. 1 Theff. 4. 17. 18. So fhall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words. Rev. 22. 3, 4, 5. U 3

Having seen what the Scriptures principally teach us to believe concerning God, it followes to consider what they require as the duty of man.

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Q. 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man?

A. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will".

Q. 92. What did God at firft reveal unto màn as the rule of his obedience?

A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, befide a special command, not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law.

Q. 93. What is the moral law?

A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding every one to perfonal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and difpofition of the whole man, soul and body,

n Deut. 29. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Mich. 6. 8. 1 Sam. 15.

22.

o Rom. 10. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufnefs

which is of the law, that the man who doeth these things fhall live by them. Rom 2. 14, 15. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts. Gen. 2. 17.

p Deut. 5. 1, 2, 3, 31, 33Hear, O Ifrael, the ftatutes and judgments which I fpeak in your ears this day, that ye

and in performance of all thofe duties of holinefs and righteoufnefs which he oweth to God and man: Promifing life upon the fulfilling, and threatening death upon the breach of it".

Q. 94. Is there

Since the fall?

any use of the moral law to man

A. Although no man fince the fall can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law1, yet there is great use thereof, as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate'.

Q.95. Of what ufe is the moral law to all men?
A. The moral law is of ufe to all men, to

may learn them, and keep and do them.-I will fpeak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou fhait teach them, that they may do them. Ye fhall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you Luke 10. 26. 27. What is written in the law, how readeft thou? And he answering, faid, Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul and with all thy Atrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. I Theff. 5. 23. I pray God, your whole spirit and foul and body be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

q Luke 1. 75. In holinefs and righteousness before him

all the days of our life. Acts
24. 16. And herein do I exer-
cife myself to have always a
confcience void of offence to-
ward God, and toward man.
r Rom. 10. 5. The man
which doeth these things, fhall
live by them.
Gal. 3. 10,

12. Curfed is every one that
continueth not in all things
which are written in the book
of the law to do them.

f Rom. 8. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son, in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. Gal. 2. 16. For by the works of the law fhall no flesh be justified.

t1 Tim. 1. 8. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully."

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