ند امخ

TOTНЕ

QUEEN'S

MOST

EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

May it please Your Majesty,

T

O accept of this Treatife, a small Part of which being Preached in Your Royal Chappel, Your Majesty was pleased to excuse the Printing of it then, that it might wait for the Publication of the Whole, which Your Majesty was given to underStand I intended; which I now A 3

bum

1

bumbly present to Your Sacred Majesty, rejoycing that I have So good an Occasion of Acknow ledging Your Great and Undeferved Favours to me, and of profeffing, with all the Sincerity that the Subject of this Treatise requires, that lam

Your MAJESTY'S

Most Humble and most Obedient

:

Subject and Servant,

:

WILLIAM SHERLOCK.

THE

The Proof of a Future Judgment.

3

Sect. I. That Man is by Nature an Accountable

Creature.

4

Sect. II. The Effential Difference between Good and

Evil, and the Natural Notions we have of God,

prove a Future Judgment.

14

Sect. III. The External appearances of Providence

prove a Future Judgment.

25

Sect. IV. The Natural Presages of Conscience prove a

Future Judgment; and if there be a Future State,

there must be a Future Judgment.

65

Sect. V. The Scripture Proof of a Future Judg-

ment.

77

Sect. VI. The Improvement of this Doctrine in some

particular Inferences; as, I. To live as it becomes

those who shall certainly be judged. 2. To keep

our Eye upon a Future Judgment for the Govern-

ment of our Lives.

Sect. VII. Third Inference: To refer all Judgment to

God.

105

Sect. VIII. Fourth Inference: To refer all Difficulties

to the Day of Judgment.

123

Sect. IX. Fifth Inference: To affect our Souls with a

strong, and vigorous, and constant Sense of Fudg-

CHAP. II.

Concerning the Time of Judgment.

152

Sect. I. Concerning a Particular Judgment at the

time of every Man's Death.

ibid.

Sect. II. That the Day of Judgment is appoint-

ed.

172

Sect. III. The Day God has appointed, is a General

Day of Judgment.

1

190

Sect. IV. The Day of Judgment is at the End of

the World.

209

Who shall be our Judge, viz. the Man Christ Fe-

Sus.

CHAP. IV.

226.

The Manner and Circumstances of Christ's Appear-

ance, and the awful Solemnities of Judgment. 254

CHAP. V.

Who are to be judged, viz. The World, or all Man-

kind.

CHAP. VI.

For what we shall be judged.

273

306

CHAP. VII.

Concerning the Righteousness of the Future Fudg-

ment, and the Rule whereby we shall be judg-

ed.

334

CONCLUSION.

How to know what our Sentence will be at the last

Judgment: with an Exhortation to Reverence

cur own Consciences.

396

!