firmly as if the last trumpet had already sounded to call up all the dead to judgment.
2. What shall we say at the sight of so many bad thoughts, of so many criminal actions, of so many graces despised? O what a terrible day is the day of God’s wrath! where the inmost recesses of the heart shall be openly exposed — where every fault shall be strictly examined, if the just themselves shall be hardly found just, what will become of unhappy sinners?
3. What sentence must an impenitent sinner expect from an offended and inexorable God? O tremendous condemnation! Depart , ye accursed , &c. Alas! where shall these miserable wretches go, to whom you thus give your malediction? To what part of the world shall they retire when they withdraw from you? Where can there be so miserable a dwelling? To be banished the presence of God ! to be accursed of God ! O what a shocking destiny!
[Imagine yourself now before the tribunal of Christ. What are you most ashamed of at this very moment? Reflect seriously on it, and remember that all your secret sins shall be exposed at theday of judgment, if you do not here efface them by a sincere repentance.]
"Who shall be able to stand before the face of his wrath?"— Nahum i.
“ Woe even to the praiseworthy life, if without mercy, O God, thou shalt examine it." — St. Austin.
SIXTH DAY. — ON HELL.
1. How great would be our horror if the shrieks of the damned, if their groans and blasphemies could reach us! They roar like wild beasts — they accuse themselves of their sins — they bewail, they detest them. But it is too late: their tears but add new strength to the fire that torments them. O repent-
