To be near unto God - pagina 285

asserted, that there was no God, or that nothing of him was known, or that there was no need to concern oneself about him. But after death one stands before this disregarded God, feels the terror of his all-pervading presence, and is no longer able, try what he may, to escape from him. For this is not the end of the judgment, that immediately after it, life can be continued in the old forgetfulness, as though there were no God. No, the self-destroying impression received of God, at the moment of the actual judgment, It is continues, and is never effaced again. recorded of devils that they well know that God And all who in this is, and that they tremble. life have evaded God, will come in the judgment, and after it, to the terrible discovery, that they have been mistaken. They will see with their own eyes, that God really exists and they also will tremble. Behind the veil of vi.-ible thinjrs in this life, and back of the niit-ts of our earthly limitations, one can cover himself with the pretence that God is not seen, and thus persuade himself that there is no God because willfullv he does not see him. B 't all this ends wi Ji death. Then this veil wii: be rent from the top to the bottom, these mists will lift themselves, every pretence will fall away, and the majesty of the Lord God will appear, and disclose itself in all its glory. lightly

The knowledge

of God, which w^as not desired then come of itself, and deluge the lost. But it will be a repulsive knowledge, which will not draw them toward God, but will make in

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