The LAST JUDGMENT.
We shall all stand before the Judgment-Seat of Christ.
Romans xiv. 10.
Watch therefore, for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew xxiv. 42.
For all his Actions to account,
By God’s express Command,
Each Man before the Judgment-Seat
Of the just Judge shall stand.
Let us be therefore vigilant,
Lest, when that Time shall come,
God, for our Actions, should pronounce
A just but angry Doom.
And since when that Hour shall arrive,
No Mortal can declare;
For its Approach the pious Man
Will watch and well prepare.
Whatsoever thou takest in Hand, remember the End, and thou shalt never do amiss.
Ecclesiasticus vii. 36.
Spotless to live if thou desir’st,
And free from every Vice,
Let this Memorial constantly
Be placed before thine Eyes.
For it will often thee remind,
That Death will soon arrive,
And frequent Thought to all thy Acts
Will a due Caution give.
Vouchsafe, O Christ, with Heart sincere,
That we thy Paths may tread,
And that to all the heav’nly Path
May thus be open made.
As by one Man Sin entered into the World, and Death by Sin; and so Death passed upon all Men, for that all have sinned.
Romans v. 12.
FINIS.