T 89. What fall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment? 4. Atthe day of judgment the wicked fhall be fet on Chrift's Jeft hand a, and upon clear evidence, and full conviction of their owa cônfciences b, fhall have the fearful but just fentence of condemnation pronounced against them c; and thereupon fhall be caft out from the favourable prefence of God, and the glorious fellowship with Chrift, his faints, and all his holy angels, into hell, to be punished with unfpeakable torments both of body and foul, with the devil and his angels for ever d. Q. 90. What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment? 2.At the day of judgment, the righteous, being caught up to Chrift in the clouds e, fhall be fet on his right hand, and there openly acknowledged and acquitted f, fhall join with him in the judging reprobate angels and men g: and fhall be received into on the face of the whole earth. 7. 36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to ftand before the Son of man. 89. a Mat. xxv. 33. And he fhall fet the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Rom. ii. 15. Which fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience alfo bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing or elfe excufing one another. v. 16. In the day when God hall judge the fearets of men by jefus Christ, according to my gospel. c Mat. xxv. 41. Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye curfed, into everlafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. v. 42. For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and yegaveme no drink: .43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: fick, and in prifon, and ye vifited me not. Luke xvi. 16. And befides all hea 2 this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, fo that they which would pafs from hence to you, cannot; neither can they pafs to us, that would come from thence. Theff. i. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jefus Chrift: v. 9. Who fhall be punished with everlafting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 90. e 1 Theff. iv. 16. Then we which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord. Mat. xxv. 33. And he shall fet the fheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Mat. x. 32. Whofoever therefore fhall confels me before men, him will I confefs alfo before my Father which is in heaven. g 1 Cor. vi. 2. Do ye not know that the faints fhall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the P 4 (mal. heaven b, where they fhall be fully and for ever freed from all fin and mifery i; filled with inconceivable joys k; made perfectly holy and happy both in body and foul, 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, and of the holy Spirit to all eternity m. And this is the perfect and full communion, which the members of the invisible church fhall enjoy with Christ in glory, at the refurrection and day of judgment. Having feen what the Scriptures principally teach us to believe, concerning God, it follows to confider what they require as the duty of man. Q. 91. WHAT is the duty which God requireth of man? A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obe dience more. smallest matters? v. 3. Know ye not hand there are pleasures for everthat ye tha judge angels? how much more then the things that pertain to this life? Mat. xxv. 34. 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. v. 46. And these shall go away into everlafting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. i Eph. v. 27. That he might pre fent it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any uch thing, but that it should be ho. ly and without blemish. Rev. xiv. 13. And I heard a voice from hea ven, faying unto me, Write, Bleffed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth yea, faith the Spirit, that they may reft from their labours; and their works do follow them, k Pfal, xvi, 11. Thou wilt fhew me the path of life: in thy pre fence is fulness of joy, at thy right /Heb. xii. 22. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. v. 23. To the general affembly, and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men made perfect. m 1 John iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the fons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear we fhall be like him; for we shall fee him as he is. 1 Cor. xiii 12. For now we fee through a glass darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am keown. 1 Theff. iv. 17. Then we who are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord. V. 18. Wherefore, comfort one another with thefe words. dience to his revealed will n. Q92. What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of his abedience? A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, befides a fpecial command not to cat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law o. 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, foul and body, and in 91. Rom. xii. 1. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye prefent your bodies a living facrifice,boly, and acceptable unto God, which is your reafenable fervice. v. 2. And be not conform ed to this world; but be ye tranf formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfeet will of God. Mic. vi. 8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do juflly, and to love mercy, and to walk Lumbly with thy God? 1 Sam. xv. 22. And Samuel faid, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and facrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? behold, to obey, is bet.. ter than facrifice; and to hearken than the fat of rams. 92. Gen, i, 26. And God faid, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fifh of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. v, 27. So God created man in his own is mage: in the image of God created per formance he him, male and female created he them. Rom. ii, 14. For when the Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, thefe having not the law, are a law unto themfelves: v. 5 Who fhew the work of the law written in their hearts, their confcience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or elle excufing one another. Rom. x. 5. For Mofes describeth the righteoutnefs which is of the law, That the man who doth thofe things fhalf live by them. Gen. ii. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt furely die. 63. p Deut. v. 1. And Mofes called all Ifrael, and faid unto them, Hear, O fiael, the ftatutes and judgments which I fpeak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. va 2. The Lord our God made a co venant with us in Horeb. v. 3. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. v. 31. But as for thee, stand thon here by me, and I will speak unto thee all formance of all thofe duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man q: promifing life upon the fulfilling, and threatning death upon the breach of it r. Q94. Is there any ufe of the moral law to man fince the fall? A. Altho' no man, fince the fall, can attain to righteoufnefs and life by the moral law; yet there is great use thereof as well common to all men, as peculiar either to the unregenerate, or the regenerate t. Q: 95. Of what ufe is the moral law to all men? A. The moral law is of ufe to all men, to inform them of the holy nature and will of God v, and of their duty, binding them all the commandments, and the ftatutes, and the judgments which thou fhalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I gave them to poffefs it. v. 33. You thall walk in all the ways, which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which ye shall poffefs. Luke x. 26. He faid unto him, What is written in the law? how readeft thou? . 27. And he answering, faid, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy ftrength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyfelf. Gal. iii, 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe; for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 1 Theff. v. 23. And the very God of peace fanctify you wholly: And I pray God, your whole fpirit and foul and body, be preferved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Luke i. 75. In holiness and righteoufnefs before him all the days of our life: Acts xxiv. 16. And herein to do I exercife myfelf to have always a confcience void of offence both toward God and toward men, r Rom. x. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doth thofe things, fhall live by them. Gal. iii, 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe: for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them, v. 12. And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doth them fhall live in them. 94./Rom. viii. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fend ing his own Son, in the likenefs of finful flefh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. Gal. ii. 16. Knowing that a man is not juftified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift, that we might be juftified by the faith of Chrift, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law fhall no flesh be juftified. t1 Tim. i. 8. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully. 95. Lev. xi. 44. For I am the Lord to walk accordingly w; to convince them of their disability to keep it, and of the finful pollution of their nature, hearts and lives; to humble them in the fenfe of their fin and mifery y, and thereby help them to a clearer fight of the need they have of Chrift z, and of the perfection of his obedience a. Q. 96. What particular ufe is there of the moral law to unregenerate men? A. The moral law is of use to unregenerate men, to awaken their confciences to flee from wrath to come b, and to drive them • Lord your God: ye fhall therefore fanctify yourfelves, and ye fhall be holy; for I am holy': neither fhall ye defile yourselves with any man ner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. v. 45. For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye fhall therefore be holy: for I am holy. Lev. x3. 7. Sanctify yourfelves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God. v. 8. And ye fhall keep my ftatutes, and do them: I am the Lord which fanctify you. Rom, vii. 12. Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and juft and good. w Mic. vi. 8. He hath fhewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do jufily, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? James 11. 10. For whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. v. 11. For he that faid, Do not commit adultery, faid alfo, Do not kill. Now if theu commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a tranfgreffer of the law." x Pfal. xix. 11. Moreover by them is thy fervant warned: and in keep ing of them there is a great reward. 12. Who can understand his errors cleanfe thou me from fecret faults. Rom. iii. 20. Therefore V. by the deeds of the law there fhall no flesh be juftified in his fight: for by the law is the knowledge of fin. Rom. vii. 7. What fhall we fay then? is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: for I had not known luft, except the law had faid, Thou fhalt not covet. y Rom. iii. 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no ways; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin. v. 33. For all have finned, and come fhort of the glory of God. z Gal ii. 21. Is the law then against the promifes of God? God forbid, for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law. v, 22. But the fcripture hath concluded all under fin, that the promise by faith of Jefas Chrift might be given to them that believe, a Rom. x. 4. For Chrift is the end of the law for righteoufnefs to every one that believeth. 96. b 1 Tim, i. 9, Knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and difobedient, for the ungodly and for finners. for unholy and profane, for mur derers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for man-flayers. v. 10. For whoremongers, for them that defilè |