2. We must meet God at the judgment-day; when _he will judge the world in righteousness by __that man_, _whom he hath appointed_. _Our God shall come_, _and shall not keep silence_: _a fire shall devour before him_, _and it shall be very tempestuous round about him_. _He shall call to the heavens from above_, _and to the earth that he may judge the people_. Psal. l. 3, 4. _The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven_, _with his mighty angels in flaming fire_, _taking vengeance on them that know not God_, _and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ_. 2 Thes. i. 7, 8. _I beheld_, says Daniel, _till the thrones were cast down_, _and the Ancient of days did sit_, _whose garment was white as snow_, _and the hair of his head like the pure wool_: _his throne was like the fiery flame_, _and his wheels as burning fire_. _A fiery stream issued_, _and came forth from before him_: _thousand thousands ministered unto him_, _and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him_: _the judgment was set_, _and the books were opened_. Dan. vii. 9, 10. These are some of those sublime descriptions, which the inspired writers give us of that period, in which every circumstance that is grand, terrible, and august, shall conspire to render it _the great and terrible day of the Lord_, Joel, ii. 31, _the great day of his wrath_, Rev. vi. 17, the general assize. If we contemplate the dignity of the Judge, the splendor and multitude of his retinue, the majesty of his throne, the process and issue of the judgment, together with all the circumstances that shall precede, attend, and follow, his glorious appearing;—if we take into consideration either the goodness or the severity, the wrath or the mercy, the destruction or the redemption, the felicity or the woes, which shall be respectively dispensed in this important period, have we not reason to cry out, _who shall be able to stand before this Holy Lord God_?