be obtained) they are much the same with
those of the lives of the worthies, historical faith being all that can
be claimed in human and imperfect composures.

And for a conclusion, let us see all scenes closing, let us, through the
foregoing mirror and following prospect, view the Lord's admirable
goodness to his own dear children even when walking through the furnace
of affliction, with his just and severe indignation and resentment even
in this life upon his and their enemies.--Let us behold the one wafted
over the dark river in the arms of a Redeemer (though sometimes on a
bloody bottom) unto the flowery banks of Emmanuel's land;--while the
other is with an awful gloom of horror hurled head-long into the pit of
destruction. Let us by faith apprehend those thousands of thousands at
Christ's right hand, singing, _Allelujah, true and righteous are his
judgments; he hath judged the great whore, and avenged the blood of his
servants_,--with a numberless throng on his left hand of these
miscreants sentenced unto that place of torment and woe, where they
shall have an eternity to bewail their infidelity, impiety, avarice,
ambition, cruelty, and stupidity in.--And, in fine, if the following
hints shall serve for no other purpose, they will stand for an
incontestable evidence of the very first principle of religion, that
there is a God to reward the righteous and punish the wicked:--_So that
men shall say, Verily, there is a reward for the righteous; verily there
is a God that judgeth in the earth._

_The Judgment and Justice of GOD Exemplified, &c._

JOHN CAMERON, sometime bishop of Glasgow was a most wicked wretch: he
not only committed many acts of avarice and cruelty upon the poor people
of his diocese, but also encouraged those in place and power to do the
like: So that he became the author of almost all the mischief in that
part of the country.--But in this he did not long escape the just
judgment of God; for in the night before (what they call) Christmas day,
1446, as he lay in his own house in Lockwood about seven miles from
Glasgow, he seemed to hear an audible voice summoning him to appear
before Christ's tribunal to give an account of his doings.--He got up
affrighted, and called for his servant to bring a light and sit by him;
he himself took a book and began to read; but the voice was heard a
second time louder, which struck all his servants with horror. His
servant being gone, the voice called a third