Chapter CLXXXVI: Sidenote: Mat. 25:45

Divine Justice offended is,
and satisfaction claimeth;
God's wrathful ire, kindled like fire,
against them fiercely flameth.
Their Judge severe doth quite cashier,
and all their pleas off take,
That ne'er a man, or dare, or can
a further answer make.

CLXXXVII.

[Sidenote: Mat. 22:12. Rom. 2:5, 6. Luke 19:42.]

Their mouths are shut, each man is put
to silence and to shame,
Nor have they aught within their thought,
Christ's Justice for to blame.
The Judge is just, and plague them must,
nor will he Mercy shew,
For Mercy's day is past away
to any of this Crew.

CLXXXVIII.

[Sidenote: Mat. 28:18. Psal. 137:7.]

The Judge is strong, doers of wrong
cannot his pow'r withstand;
None can by flight run out of sight,
nor 'scape out of his hand.
Sad is their state; for Advocate,
to plead their cause, there's none;
None to prevent their punishment,
or mis'ry to bemoan.