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THE

PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE.

MAY, 1856.

Miscellaneous Articles.

THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT DAY.

Amid

As man is evidently endowed with a principle of forethought, and is avowedly acting under a system of accountability, it doubtless becomes him to look forward into futurity, and to prepare for the events of whose coming the word of God has informed us. the hurry, however, of commercial pursuits, and when the mind is under the undue love of worldly pleasures, or stupefied with sensual indulgences, we find that this regard to futurity is very generally neglected, or intentionally set aside, as if it were unnecessary. But, as by thus acting we cannot prevent the coming of the solemn events to which we refer, and most assuredly must thus be wholly unprepared for them when they come, it is highly necessary that our minds should, occasionally at least, be roused to reflection with regard to them, lest they come on us unawares, and we find ourselves involved in never-ending ruin, without the possibility of escaping from it. Of the certainty of a judgment to come, no one who sincerely believes the sacred Scriptures can entertain a doubt. The statements of the word of God on the subject are most explicit, and set it fully before us in all its vast extent and importance. For they tell us that "God has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness," and in which "he will bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil;" and that all shall receive according to the deeds which they have done in the body." And it is to this day the language in Jude v. 6 naturally leads us to look forward. Its allusion to the angels who kept not their first estate, but sinned and fell, is most emphatic and awakening; for it tells us that they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." An event, therefore,

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