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bumbly prefent to Your Sacred Majesty, rejoycing that I have Jo good an Occafion of Acknow. ledging Tour Great and Undeferved Favours to me and of profeffing, with all the Sincerity that the Subject of this Treatife requires, that lam

Your MAJESTY'S

Most Humble and most Obedient

Subject and Servant,

WILLIAM SHERLOCK.

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The CONTENTS.

HE Introduction: containing a Diftribution of

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the Work,

CHAP. I.

The Proof of a Future Judgment.

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Sect. I. That Man is by Nature an Accountable

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Creature.

Sect. II. The Effential Difference between Good and

Evil, and the Natural Notions we have of God,

prove a Future Judgment.

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Sect. III. The External appearances of Providence

prove a Future Judgment.

Sect. IV. The Natural Prefages of Confcience prove a

Future Judgment; and if there be a Future State,

there must be a Future Judgment.

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Sect. V. The Scripture Proof of a Future Judg-

ment.

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Sect. VI. The Improvement of this Doctrine in fome

particular Inferences; as, I. To live as it becomes

thofe who fhall certainly be judged. 2. To keep

our Eye upon a Future Judgment for the Govern-
ment of our Lives.

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Sect. VII. Third Inference: To refer all Judgment to

God.

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Sect. VIII. Fourth Inference: To refer all Difficulties

to the Day of Judgment.

Seat. IX. Fifth Inference: To affect our Souls with a

Strong, and vigorous, and conftant Sense of Judg

ment.

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CHAP. II.

Concerning the Time of Judgment.

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Sect. I. Concerning a Particular Judgment at the

time of every Man's Death.

Sect. II. That the Day of Judgment is appoint-

ed.

ibid.

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Sect. III. The Day God has appointed, is a General

Day of Judgment.

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Sect. IV. The Day of Judgment is at the End of

the World.

CHA P. III.

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Who shall be our Judge, viz. the Man Chrift Je-

fus.

CHA P. IV.

226

The Manner and Circumftances of Chrift's Appear-

ance, and the awful Solemnities of Judgment. 254

CHAP. V.

Who are to be judged, viz. The World, or all Man-

kind.

CHAP. VI.

For what we shall be judged.

CHAP. VII.

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Concerning the Righteousness of the Future Judg-

ment, and the Rule whereby we shall be judg-

ed.

CONCLUSION.

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How to know what our Sentence will be at the last

Judgment: with an Exhortation to Reverence

cur own Confciences,

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