umber of them that shall be judged; for let all flesh
prepare them for it, even kings and emperors, those that wore many crowns
on the earth, must appear naked before the throne. Alexander, thou worest
many crowns, conquered many nations, but yet thou must stand up naked as
thou was born, and thou must render a reckoning of thy conquests.

But I leave this. Again, you see this throne is _white_. What means this
whiteness? It is innocency or righteousness, and full of shining
brightness, of an unspeakable joy. Innocent and righteous; how so? Because
the Judge is white, innocent, and righteous; all his assizers that shall
sit round about him, they are white, innocent, white and righteous; all
his citations, summonses and convictions, sentences and executions, are
innocent and righteous; so all is white, the Judge, the unspotted innocent
and undefiled Lamb of God, sitting on his throne of justice, and ordained
deputy of his Father, to judge both the quick and the dead, he in whose
heart was never found guile; therefore Abraham said, "Shall not the Judge
of the world judge righteously?" So this Judge is white, innocent, and he
is bright and glorious. Peter, James, and John, saw him white on the mount
Tabor, when he was transfigured, "and his face shined as the sun, and his
raiment white as the light; and when Peter said, Master, it is good for us
to be here: if thou wilt, let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and
one for Moses, and one for Elias." Matth. xvii. 1, 2, 3. Ay, Peter, but
this shall be a whiter appearing, and thou shalt think it better to be
with him here. Ay, Lord, it is true, _white_ wast thou upon mount Tabor,
but whiter shalt thou be in the clouds.

He is _white_ again, in respect of his citations. O that our hearts were
ravished with the consideration of thy righteous and just citing and
summoning of all men, when thou shalt cause the earth, grave, hell, and
the sea, and all places, thrust out of them all their dead; just shalt
thou be in glorifying the souls and bodies of them that glorify thee on
earth; and just shalt thou be in glorifying thyself, by tormenting the
souls and bodies of them that dishonoured thee on earth.

He is _white_ in respect of his accusations, for there shall be nothing
read in thy ditty, but that which shall be found written either in one
leaf of thy conscience or other; there the sins of thy conception, there
the sins of thy youth, there the sins of thy ignorance, there th