1. ARE _you_ to die? Must _you_ leave this world, and carry nothing of it away with you? Naked as you came out of your mother’s womb, naked shall you return. And are you never to come back into this world? Have you no more place under the sun? When you leave these houses and fields, this flesh and blood, do you part with them for ever? Are you _sure_ of this? Must _all_ men die? Can _none at all_ escape death? Do _rich_ men likewise die, and leave their riches for others? Do _princes_ also fall and die like one of their people? Can _you_ then escape it? You do not think so. You know death is as sure as if you felt it already: as if you was now gasping for life, sweating and trembling in those last pangs, till the soul started off from the quivering lips, into the boundless ocean of eternity. 2. And are _you_ to be judged? How is this to be? Why, the Son of God shall come in his glory, and all his holy angels with him; and then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. Behold he cometh with clouds! And every eye shall see him, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty! And I saw (wilt thou also say) a great white throne, and him that sat thereon, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and they were judged, every man according to his works. And shalt _thou_ also be judged according to _thy_ works? _All_ thy works, whether they be good or evil? Yea, and for every _idle word_ which thou shalt speak, thou shalt give an account in the day of judgment. But _this is_ not all: the Lord, the judge searcheth _the heart_, and trieth the reins. He understands _all thy thoughts_; and for _all these_ likewise he shall bring thee into judgment. Supposest thou it is enough to be _outwardly_ good? What! though thy _inward_ parts are very wickedness? And are they not? Is not thy soul fallen short of the glory (the glorious image) of God? Look into thy breast. Art thou not a fallen spirit? Dost thou not know and feel, how very far thou art gone from original righteousness? Desperately full thou art of all evil, and naked of all good? Is there not in thee, an earthly, sensual, devilish mind? A mind that is enmity against God? ’Tis plain there is. For thou dost not love God. Thou dost not delight in him. He is not the desire of thy eyes, or the joy of thy heart. Thou lovest the creature more than the Creator. Thou art a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God. O how wilt thou stand in the judgment!