Grace Quotes

from Edwards, "The Final Judgment" Some of you live in secret wickedness. Consider that for all these things, God will bring you into judgment. Secrecy is your temptation. Promising yourselves this, you practice many things, you indulge many lusts, under the covert of darkness, and in secret corners, which you would be ashamed to do in the light of the sun, and before the world. All your secret abominations are even now perfectly known to God, and will also hereafter be made known both to angels and men. Before this Judge shall be brought the most "hidden things of darkness, and even the counsels of the heart.." 1 Cor. 4:5. All your secret uncleanness, all your secret fraud and injustice, all your lascivious desires, wishes, and designs, all your inward covetousness, which is idolatry, all your malicious, envious, and revengeful thoughts and purposes, whether brought forth into practice or not, shall then be made manifest, and you shall be judged according to them. "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed upon the house tops." Luke 12:2, 3 Consider, that there is a God in heaven who beholds you, and sees how you conduct yourself. Justice shall assuredly take place at last. God on the day of judgement, will discover the secrets of all hearts. The judgment of that day will be like the fire, which burns up whatever is not true gold. Wood, hay, stubble, and dross, shall be all consumed by the scorching fire of that day. The Judge will be like a refiner's fire, and fuller's soap, which will cleanse away all filthiness, however it may be colored over. "Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap. For behold the day comes that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble, and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts." Malachi 3:2; 4:1