The whole creation will unite in vindicating these judgments as just and good —
[Doubtless, if it were possil)!e, siimers would urge at the bar of judgment the objectionsnvhich here they presuiue to bring against the justice of their God. But sin will then appear in all
its
^ Ps. xiv. 1. Omitting the words in Italics. ^ Ileb. x. 29, 'Jobxxi. 14. *Matt. XXV. 41.
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its deformity : it will then be seen, what a God we sinned against, and what mercies we despised. Even in this world, when once persons are brought to view themselves aright, they justify God in all that he sees fit to inflict upon themes. Aaron "^j £li', Hezekiah"", David ^, all confessed, that God had a right to deal with them in the way that he had done. Much more in the day of judgment, when every thing will be seen in its true light, will the whole universe approve the sentence which God shall pass on the world of the ungodly : they will make the very punishment of the wicked a subject of their songs ; " saying, Allelujah ! salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God : for true and righteoiis are his judgments™." Indeed the miserable objects themselves, though they cannot join in the song, will be unable to condemn the sentence. The man who was excluded from the marriage-feast for not having on a wedding garment, might have urged, that he was brought in before he had time to procure one : but his plea would have been false and unavailing; and therefore " he was speechless";" a striking monument of conscious guilt, and an awful specimen of a condemned soul °.]
In this acknowledgment then of David we may