the dead judged accordingly to what they shall have done in this world, whether it be good or evil. Nay men hall give an account of every idle word they have spoken, which the world only counts amusement and jeft: And then the fecrets and hypocrify of men fhall be "disclosed and laid open before all. And therefore the confideration of this judg inent is justly terrible and dreadful to the wicked and ungodly, but moft defirable and comfortable to the righteous and elect; becaufe then their full deliverance fhall be perfected, and there they shall receive the fruits of their labour and trouble which they have borne. Their innocence hall be known 10 all, and they fhall fee the terrible vengeance which God shall execute on the wicked, who moft cruelly perfecuted, oppreffed and tormented them in this world; and who fhall be convicted by the teftimony of their own confciences, and become immorral, but for this purpofe to be tormented in that everlafting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels. But on the contrary the faithful and elect shall be crowned with glory and honor; and the Son of God will confefs their r names before God his Father, and his elect angels; all tears fhall be wiped from their eyes, and their caufe which is now condemned by many judges and magiftrates, as heretical and impious, will then be known to be the caufe of the Son of God. And for a gracious reward

the Lord will caufe them to poffefs fuch a glory, as never entered into the heart of man to conceive. Therefore we expect that great day with a moft ardent defire, to the end that we may fully enjoy the promifes of God in Chrift Jefus our Lord. Amen. Even fo come Lord Jefus,

THE

HEIDELBERGH CATECHISM.

1. LORD'S DAY.

21. WHAT is thy only comfort in live and

death?

A. That I with (a) body and foul, both in life and death (6) am not my own, but belong (c) unto my faithful Saviour Jefus Chrift, who with his precious (d) blood hath fully (e) fatisfied for all my fins, and delivered (f) me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me, (g) that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair (h) can fall from my head; yea that all things must be (i) subservient to my falvation, and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he alfo affures me (k) of eternal life, and makes (1) me Lincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.

a 1 Cor. vi, 19, 20. b Rom. xiv, 7, 8, 9. c 1 Cor. iii, 23. d 1 Pet. 1, 18, 19. ex John i, 7. f1 John ii, 8. Heb. ii, 14, 15. g John vi, 39, and x, 28 29. Luke xxi, 18. Mat. x, 30. i Rom. viii, 28. k z Cor. i, az. and v, 5. Rom. viii, 14, and vii, 22,

Q. 2. How many things are neceffary for thee to brow, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayeft live and die happily?

A. Three: (m) The firft, how great (n) my fins and miferies are: The fecond, how I may be delivered () from all my fins and miseries : The third, how I fhall exprefs my gratitude (p) to God for fuch deliverance.

m Luke xxiv, 47. 1 Cor. vi, 10, 11. » John ix, 41. Rom. iii, 10, 19. 0 John xvii, 3. p Eph. v, 8, 9, 10.

Q. 3. Whence knowest thou thy misery? A. Out of the law of God. Rom. iii, 20. Q. 4. What doth the law of God require of us? A. Chrift teacheth us that, briefly Mat, xxii, 3740. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God' with all "thy heart, with all thy foul, with all thy mind, and "with all thy strength. (4) This is the first and "the great command, and the fecond is like to this, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On "these two commands hang the whole Law and the *Prophets."

g Luke x, 27.

Q. 5. Ganft thou keep all these things perfectly? A. In no wife ; for (r) I am prone by nature to hate God and my neighbour. (s)

Rom. iii, ro, 1 John i, 8. s Rom. viii, 7. Tit. iš, 3.

2. 6. Did God then create man fo wicked and perverfe?

A. By no means: but God created man good,(†) and after his own Image, in (u) righteoufnefs and true holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him, and live with him in eternal happiness, to glorify and praife him. (v)

✰ Gen. i, 31. ✯ Gen. i. 25, 27. Col. iii, 10. Eph. iv, 24. Eph. i, 6. 1 Cor. vi 20.

Q. 7. Whence then preceeds this depravity of human nature?

A. From the fall and difobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, (x) in Paradife; hence our nature is become fo corrupt, that we are all conceiyed and born in fin. (y)

x Gen. iii, 6. Ro. v, 12, 18, 19, Pf. li, 5. Gen. V, 3.

Q. 8. Are we then fo corrupt that we are whol ly incapable of doing any good, aud inclined to all wickedness?