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Heb. i. 10.

Isa, lxv. 17.

Rev. xx. 11.

Of the Last Judgment, and Change of this World with the previous Signs of the Times.

THAT the last Judgment extends not only to this globe, but also to the whole moveable creation, is evident by the following words:

"For Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: they shall perish-but Thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

Again, "Behold I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

Again, "And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there

was found no place for them."-" And I saw a Rev. xxi. 1.

new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."

We have now to show how far our inferences, from our observation of things around us, accord with this revelation of the last judgment extending over all the moveable

creation.

It has already been demonstrated, that the universal law of gravitation, which the Almighty was pleased to establish for the government of his creation, and previous to the existence of our race, is the only just law which can be formed, to regulate and support the peaceable order of society-consistently with the precepts of our Saviour! This being the case, it follows, that the same inferences we derive in all our reasonings, from this universal law, may be also derived from it by every reasonable being, upon every planet throughout the vast creation! for, by the perception of those laws, their assent must be regulated

John, xiv. 2.

Isaiah, xl. 15.

Ps. viii. 4.

Ps. lxxxix. 5.

as reasonable beings, as the conclusions of all
our reasonings are in astronomy, or in any
other department of knowledge, which that
law regulates. And the word of God may
have adopted ways, consistently with His
wisdom and beneficence, to raise millions of
others in the bliss of his own glory, as ex-
tended to ourselves.
He says,
In my
Father's house are many mansions, and if it
were not so, I would have told you:"-that
"the nations are but as a drop in a bucket"
in the creation, "and are counted as the small
dust in the balance" of reciprocal attraction→
for this world he likened in his parables to a
field, or as a part of an estate. And to sup-
pose that those mansions were created, but
for the wisest and best of purposes, would be
a contradiction to the clearest possible evi-
dence we have around us of His beneficence,
wisdom, and power! And knowing these
truths as David did, well might he exclaim;
"What is man that Thou art mindful of him,
and the son of man that Thou visitest him."-
"The heavens shall praise thy wonders, O

Lord, thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints."

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For "Justice and judgment are the habita- Ps.lxxxix. 14. tion of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted, for Thou art the glory of their strength."

Our

To enquire, however, about other worlds than our own, is not our business here, more than pointing out the circumstances which prove the consistency of revelations, with the law which regulates the visible creation. business here, is to consider the language that describes the coming of the Lord to judge the world; and compare the elements around us, He has at his command to fulfil those words. The words of the prophet Habakkuk are,"His brightness was as the light. He had Hab. iii. 4. bright beams out of his side, and there was the hiding of his power: before Him went the

Nah, i. 5.

Micah i. 3.

Psalm xcvii. 3.

Mal. iv. 1.

pestilence, and burning diseases went forth at his feet. He stood and measured the earth: He beheld, and drove asunder the nations: the everlasting mountains were scattered the perpetual hills did bow--His ways are everlasting."

Again, "The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein."

Again, "For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, as wax before the fire, and the valleys shall be cleft as the waters poured down a descent."

Again, "A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies"—" For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up,

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