Bodies here are by Death made â—ntenantable and from whom they â—hen Receive Order Either to be Admitted among the Spirits of Just men made perfect or to be Reserved in Darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day That Separate Souls thus Exist â—n an Invisible World is a thing whereof I know some who have such palâ—able Evidences that were the Scripâ—ures wholly Silent which Blessed by God they are not about it yet they could no more Qustion it than they Question their own Existence in the World But there is a more General Work of this kind shortly to be done â—n a Vast Assembly of all mankind unto â—hat end Summoned by the Mighty God and called from the Rising of the Sun unto the Setting thereof The Souls of men shall reassume a fit Portion of the Dust whereunto they were formerly United by the Almighty God fetch'd out of the Various matter whereinto it has been Dissolved and Dispersed but now become as were the Keel where upon shall be Builâ— Incorruptible Bodies and some that shall then be found alive shall by 〈◊〉 Translation have their Bodies made iâ— a like manner Spiritual In their Bodies thus Raised and Changed they shalâ— stand before a Tribunal of our Lord Jesus descended from the Heavens into our Atmosphere and after aâ— Exact Examination of their Behaviours While God was upon Earth Trying oâ— them they shall have One of these two Sentences pronounced upon them Either Come ye Blessed Inherit the Kingdom Or Depart ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire Which will be accordingly Executed on them Such 〈◊〉 Day of Judgment is there to come upon the World Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly Indeed about the Circumstances of this most Illustriouâ— Day t is more easy than lawful for us to Enquire into such things as wâ— are not yet Able to Aâ—swer nor haâ— the Lord Indulged our Curious and Critical Enquiries after Particularities which He ha's not Revealed It seem Revealed That this Last Day will be a Long Day It will be a Day of â—ublick Hearing and all Doings of all â—eople must be called out Cunctaque Cunctorum Cunctis Arcana patebunt So that things will not be Hastily â—uddled and Suddenly Shuffled over â—ea It seems Revealed That the â—orning of This famous Day will â—ake up at least a Thousand Years wherein our Lord will be managing His Davidical Kingdom with a New Heaâ—en and a New Earth wherein shall â—well Righteousness and Reigning before His Ancient People Gloriously at the Close whereof it seems to some that The Rest of the Dead Live again all tâ—â— Dead Small Great stand before God The Hour when it shall be Commenced and â—he Spot where it shall be Cheâ—fly managed seem not Revealed nor a thousand â—hings more that concern the proceedings of the Day But whatever may be yet Unrevealed it is abundantly Plain and Sure unto us That the Son of man shall come in the Glory of His Father with His Angels and then He shalâ— Reward every man According to hiâ— Works This is Revealed and it iâ— a Damnable Thing to Cherish anâ— Doubt of This That we must aâ—l appeaâ— before the Judgment-Seat of the Lord Jesus Christ S. 3. The Judgment of the Great Day Or a Day wherein all men shall bâ— Raised and Changed into a State oâ— Immortality and appear before the Soâ— of Man within the Bounds of our Air to be Judged according unto whaâ— they Did before they Dyâ—d This is 〈◊〉 thing which the People of God in alâ—â—ges have given their Assent unto Even in Old Times long before thâ— Flood the Church of God made this aâ— Article of their Creed We havâ— some short Notes of what was delivered by the Venerable Enoch abouâ— it so long ago in Jude 14. Behold â—he Lord comes to Execute Judgmenâ— upon all Yea This was a main Controversy between the Antediluviaâ— Saints and the Impious Impure Geâ—â—â—â—tion of Atheists then upon thâ— Stage The Godly did Assert There â—ali be a Day of Judgment but the proâ—ne did with Hard Speeches Deride â—xplode the Belief of that awful Truth We read in Gen. 4.8 Cain spake to Abel his Brother the Hebrew Bibles â—sually leave a Blank at the end of his clause and the ancient Jewish â—argumâ— presume to put in the Disâ—urse which they had they say that â—he Quarrel between Cain and Abel â—as upon this point Abel said There 〈◊〉 to be a Day of Judgment and there is Judge and there shall be another World â—nd the Godly shall be Rewarded and the Wicked Punâ—shed But Cain said There 〈◊〉 no such Thing and as the Targum â—f I. Ben. Vzziel adds Et Propter haâ—um Rerum Causam Contendebant Superâ—acies Agri. And methinks the Aâ—ostle in the Beginning of his Eleventh â—hapter to the Hebrews may seem to â—ountenance this Tradition It seems â—s if Abraham also saw this Day aâ—r off inasmuch as there are those â—ho put his Plea for Sudom into this â—nglish in Gen. 18.25 Wâ—ll not the Judge 〈◊〉 all the Earth Execute Judgment 〈◊〉 q d. Lord Thou dost intend hereafter to appear for a Judgment upon aâ— the World in such Flames of Devouring Fire as thou art now going to destroy this miserable Place withal bâ— Entreated therefore to spare these Towns until that Revolution come Indeed all Christians have alwayes Agreed in this Acknowledgment long before as well as ever since the Dayeâ— of Job I know that my Redeemer Lives and that He shall stand at the Eatteâ— Day upon the Earth and though Worms Destroy this Body yet in my Flest I shall see God And even in that Confession of Faith which the Jews themselves at this Day embrace their Eleventh Fundamental Article is the Eternal Judgment To what the People of God have thus Received as the Faith delivered unto the Saints they have had the Scriptures of God most abundantly given their Infallible Testimony There is hardly any one part of the Old Testament which has not Considerable Glances aâ— the Day of Iudgment But in the New â—estament it is yet more plentifully insisted on Very many of the Sermons Preached by our Lord Jesus Christ â—nd all the Letters written by His Aâ—â—stles do set the Day of Iudgment before our Eyes Yea not only the Approach but also the Process of this wonderful Day is diverse times Expressed in these Lively Oracles The Holy Spirit of God hath Chosen to make one of the East Clauses in the Bible an Admonition unto us hereâ—bout the very last Lines of the last â—dvice we have had from Heaven are â—o this purpose The Lord Jesus Christ will shortly come to Iudge the World And with the Assertions of Scripture â—oncerning this matter the Apostle in 〈◊〉 certain place tells us the Accusingâ— â—nd the Excusingâ—s of Conscience do join â—heir Testimony thereunto 〈◊〉 The Verâ—ict of Conscience upon the Sinner is â—s Tertallian calls it Futurâ— Judiciâ— Prejudicium a presage of a future â—udgment It is true the
unto an Account about our whole Behaviours in the Day It becomes us with Self-judging Hearts every Night before we Sleep to make a Process like what would be in the Day of Iudgment and this as not knowing but that before we Wake out of that Sleep a Come away to Judgment may Surprize us Nightly Recollections have been Commended by Sober Pagans and should not be Omitted by Pious Christians but when we have Considered What ha's been Gods Providence towards my self in the foregoing Day We may do well also to Consider What ha's been my Behaviour towards God in the Day We may now particularly take an Account Q. 1. Have I Lived this Day under a Deep sense of Mortality and Eternity Q. 2. Have I Devoutly Read the Word of God this Day and Seriously sought the Face of God both in my Retirement and with my Family Q. 3. Have I had many Ejaculations this Day both in a way of Petition and in a way of Thanksgiving unto God Q. 4 Have I had most affectionate Meditations upon Heavenly Things this Day have I made Earthly Things to occasion some of my Profitable Reflections Q. 5. Have I been careful of my Discourse this Day Spoken with a Tongue Bâ—idled by the Fear of the Lord Q. 6. Have I been Diligent in my Calling this Day and avoided all Needless Expence of my Precious and Golden Minutes in Diversions Q 7. Have I this Day Endeavoured all Usefulness unto those to whom I am Related or with whom I have been Concerned Q. 8. Have I this Day Controlâ—'d and Conquer'd my Master Sin and ha's my Watchfulness issued in my Victory over my own Iniquity Q. 9 Am I in a fit State and Frame to appear before the Judgment-Seat of God if I should before To Morrow Mornning be Summoned thereunto And therefore Do I still choose the Great God as my best Good and my last End and the Lord Jesus Christ as my Prophet my Priest my King And is it my Desire to be Employ'd as a Witness for His Truths and Wayes for ever Did we not let any Day pass us without such Representations of the Last Day unto our minds we should be Alwayes Ready Reader let us Aspire after such a Continual Readiness S. 7. But none of the least Exercises in our Preparation for the Day of Judgment would be our Meditation of it Or Our Looking for the Glorious Appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ He was an Holy man among the Ancients who could say Wherever I am and Whatever I do Methinks I have the Sound of the Last Trumpet in my Ears ARISE YE DEAD AND COME TO JUDGMENT We should Labour to get a Proper a Lively Character of the Day when God shall Judge the Secrets of men and often Raise it in our minds It was said Wo to them that put far away the Evil Day Truly The Day of Judgment will be an Evil day indeed unto them that put it far away Thoughts upon the Day of Judgment should continually Lodge in our Hearts and however we are imploy'd we should think What shall I do when God rises up and when He Visits what shall I answer Him Now for the Assistence and Nourishment of our Private Meditations upon The Day of God we are happily Supply'd with the Published Meditations of many Worthy Pious Learned Writers upon that Important Subject and I pray that we may not be Unthankful or Unfruitful under such Advantages The Carnal Jewes when they Read the Book of Ecclesiastes have the last Verse but one which has in it Fear God and keep His Commandments Printed over again at the Close of all because they would not have the Remembrance impression of the Last Verse which has in it God shall bring every Work into Judgment to be too strong upon them whereas if men would Think more of the Latter they would probably Do more of the Former God forbid that we should any of us have any Indisposition to such Meditations on the Day of Judgment as are Laid before us in the Books of some that are Longing for the Day Dear New-England Thy Little Presses too do now afford more than two or three Savoury Treatises upon the Day which will not bundle such Books for the Fire that shall then Burn up the Hay Stubble of Innumerable Volumns No Such are some of the Books that shall be Opened for a Witness against Impenitents In thee is Reprinted the Zealous Thomas Vincents Discourse On our Lords certain sudden Appearance to Judgment In thee is Printed a Sermon on The Day of Judgment whose Author is the Father of him that now addresses thee In thee is now Printed the Reverend Samuel Lee's Assize-Sermon of Warning to the Great Day of Judgment Left among us as his Mantle by that Elias when he went away for Europe These besides other Books has New-England had for the Loudening of that Midnight Cry among us Behold the Bridegroom comes And indeed if upon the passing away of the second Wo the Third comes quickly which brings on The Time of the Dead that they should be Judged we that now see the Second Wo coming a pace unto its Period should count no Awakenings too many to rowse us out of that profound Sleep wherein the World shall be fast When the Son of man comes I am verily perswaded The Judge is at the Door I do without any hesitation venture to say The Great Day of the Lord is Near it is Near and it hastens Greatly O That our Minds may be as deeply Engaged in Thinking on the Second coming of our Lord as the Saints of old were in Thinking on His First and that the Books by which we may Vnderstand much of what concerns that matter may have a due Entertainment and Efficacy with us A Person of some Quality having Wasted much Time at Unlawful Games could not Sleep the Night following mentioned unto an Inquisitive Friend the Ground of it Yesterday casting my Eye into a Book that I saw open I read the Word ETERNâ—TY and this Word has broke my very Heart within me Truly we that have so many Books about ETERNAL JUDGMENT have our Hearts harder than the Nether Milstone if at the sight of that Word ETERNAL JUDGNENT they do not break But it is unto the God of Grace that we are now to bow our Knees with Petitions for Mercy in the Day of the Lord. A SUMMONS Or WARNING to the Great Day of JUDGMENT In a SERMON Preach'd at the Assizes at Bristol in New-England Octob. 7. 1687. now some-what Amplified and Fitted to the Service of others Luke 21.36 Watch and Pray alwaâ—es that ye may be accounted worthy to Escape all those things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man A-kempts de Imit Christi l. 1. c. 24. Vere non potâ—s duo gaudia habere bic dilâ—ctaâ—â— in mando postea regâ—are cum Christo Verily thou canst not expect two joyes To
speeches and commit ungodly deeds for a trace of some thousands of years without Controul or Impeachment V. The Allegations proofs and evidences produced out of the black Books and bloody Registers of all Ages which before were shut up and Sealed in Gods Archiva or treasure Chambers above are now all opened and if they cannot Read their Psalms of Mercy Rev. 6.20 there is no hope of Exile to a Patmus or any forreign Islands at that day for they shall flee away VI. The final process and they were judged out of the things written in the Books whence there is no appeal no recalling or reversion There will be that Positive and final Conclusion OBSERVATION Obser Most formidable and dreadful will be that great and general Day of Judgment It 's a Coming and hastning towards us Nay t is near at hand Jam. 5.9 The Judge is even at the Door If you ask how long I Answer He that was at the Door in the Apostle James his time may be now stept over the Threshold in our dayes and well forward in His Journey towards Mount Oliver and ready to ascend into the Seat of Judgment Nay Besides it is so near to every Particular Person when he strides over the black Threshold of Death that we cannot certainly tell How little a moment it will seem from the time of his Death to his Solemn appearance before Jesus Christ and then 't will indeed determine the truth of that Scripture Heb. 10 31. that 't is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God and most dreadful to all out of Christ at that day If without Christ having been without God in this World they shall like Dogs be cast out of the Holy City in the World to come into a lake Burning with Fire and Brimstone Rev. 22.15 Judicial dayes here under the Sun are but like Pictures and Stories in hangings and all Executions but like Painted Fire to this great and terrible day of the Lord which will make all the Ruffians quake like an Aspen leafe Eccl. 3.16 17. Those fools which now make a mock of Sin Those Careless Gallios grave Eelixes Pâ—ov 14.9 Act. 24 26 that put off the hearing of this day till another time That allarm Trumpet will make your Ears to tingle above all other and will ye nill ye up you must hasten to Judgment There are three things which Command into the inmost Chambers of your hearts most dreadful most amazing thoughts and high reverence with deepest astonishment If so be ye fall into the Snare of Death in a State unreconciled to God and not purged from your Scarlet Sins by the precious blood of Christ 1. The infinitely glorious Majesty of the Judge 2. The Exact rule of Procedure according to things found written in the Books before the Judge 3. The stupendious quality or property of this Judgment Of which in order 1. Let us call to mind with all Reverence and trembling the infinite Majesty of the Judge who will then sit down upon the throne of Judgment No less Person than the Maker of Heaven and Earth before whom all the Divels tremble Vers 11 and the Pillars of Heaven are astonisht and confounded the foundations of the Earth flee away and Vanish into Smoak and nothing at the fiery Breath of His Nostrils whose single Word Shrinks the Universe into less than the Shadow of an Atom at His pleasure But let us here Remember Isai 40.17 we are not to Consider of this Almighty and Eternal Judge as God Essential onely but more Personally the Son of God who cometh with Ten Thousand of His Saints that is His Holy Angels Jude 14 15. to Execute judgment in that day for all the Violent actions against His Church and People or any of His Redeemed ones 2. The several strict rules of Procedure according to the Various Books all lying patent before the Judge upon the Table which are these following I. The Books of Creation and Providence like two Volumns joyned and bound up together wherein the distinct Successions of all Generations are delineated God knows all the Stars of Heaven and all the Lamps of the Intellectual beings by name The genealogical stemmes of all persons are fairely written in that Register and he will call their bodies up out of their Graves at that day from the Rising to Setting Sun Psal 50.3 to meet their Souls and to accept a new Animation from them When the El-Elohim-Jehovah as some gloss those Titles in the Fifteth Psalm Isai 27.13 that Powerful just merciful God will cause the great Trumpet to sound and awaken all out of the dost of Dan. 12.2 Death and then God will call thee to account for the abuse of every Limb Psal 135 16. and member written in that Venerable book II. The particular books of Record or Remembrance which whether written by an Empyraean Pen drawn from a Seraphims Wing I mean whether the Holy Angels are the Scribes and Recorders is not revealed to us It s true the Lord Himself or they in His Name injoyn holy John to write Rev. 1.11 19 22 6 16. 19 9 10 Psal 104 4. what they are Commanded to dictate to him Besides we find them registred as Presidents of Nations and to have the Guardianship of Saints Heb. 1.14 and to be Ministers of the Divine Pleasure and of mighty influence in Slaying God's and His Churches Enemies and to manage the great turns and overturnings of Kingdoms That 's certain as in the case of Egypt Psal 78.49 when God sent evil Angels among them that is the Executioners of woful evil Judgments among them like as the Angelus Percussor the smiting Angel may be said to make a way for His wrath Ezek. 9.3 Such instruments were used in Executing divine wrath upon Sennacheribs army Psal 78.50 and upon poor Jerusalem in her sad day 2 King 29.35 and afterward in the destruction of Babylon Ezek. 9 3 when the Captain of the Lords army Marched before the Red and Speckled Horses in Zachary's Visions Zech. 1.11 In like matters both as to Nations Citys and Persons we may conceive of things as in the Glass of a continued Allegory that there is a particular book for every Person in several cases 1. There may be I mean Allegorically a dreadful black Book for every mans Sins And truly this is a matter of heavy concernment that though it should not be so Specifically yet t is Equivalently and Eventually that there is a particular Book in the Court of Records in Heaven with thy name on the out side where every Sin of thine is written down with the bloud of Dragons mixt with the galls or Cruel Venome of Asps Deut. 32.33 durably as if with the point of of a Diamond upon a Rock Jere. 17.1 Truly it s all one nay worse then if so really for t is
there shall be a deadly Stupefaction in the World As to sit under Night-Shade breed a Stupor This will be the Effect of being in the Night shade Walks of the World How are most of us asleep so that one can hardly get so much at any good Discourse on foot among us See Math. 24.39 And knew not till the Flood came and took them all away so shall also the Coming of the Son of man be Remember that on your Knees ¶ This comes from want of Consideration God says O that they would Consider See Psal 119.59 T is said They Considered not for their Hearts were hardened No Hammer can break this stone but Gods T is only Gods Fire and Vinegar that can cause the Nether Milstone of our Hearts to Crack And it works in Consideration Consideration is the Glory of a man and it would be our Happiness But for Inconsiderateness This comes 1. From an Innate Inclination People be not of Thinking Spirits They are for Pastime Oh dreadful Word a Word for the Divel to put into our Hearts The Fatness of Heart spoken of by Isaiah is mention'd Six times in the New Testament No Text of the Old Testament so often cited Which is to be thought on Blood is sometimes Congealed like a Serpent in the Heart Such Hearts have we Men are against Prick't Hearts though the Corruption cannot otherwise come out but the Divels will â—uck their Blood for ever 2. From a Judicial Obsignation God says to His Ministers Go Preach at such a place and harden the People there Oh with uplâ—fted Hands beg Lord let me not be Sealed up under this hardness This Hardness will be turned into shrieks in Hell See Exod. 9.10 From this Hardness t is that men will Scoff at a Little Expression of a Minister but every such Scoff shall cost you a Thousand years in Hell This Nigrum Theta marks for Hell 3. From a Confaederation with Sin and with Sinners T is not our Cannot but our Will not that undo's us Famous Fenner ha's Writ well of this Self-Murder Sinners as Cleopaira take the Asp of Inconsiderateness and put it to their Breasts And Sinners harden one another They are for a Priest that will be Drunk with them and for a faithfull Preacher they think much Learning ha's made him mad They are as Psal 50. end So I should come to our Saviours Question What do ye more than others III. But our Lord ha's given us a gracious Premonition about the Day of Judgment You have the Voice of the Archangel now in your Ears God forewarns 1. By notable foregoing Judgments Every Feavour is a warning of the Fire of Hell Every Dropsy is a Warning of the River of Styx Every causualty is a Warning Have you not been sick and said If God spare me I will be better Well said Pharaoh Have you not heard of the late Earth quakes in Italy and one at New-Haven lately Have you not Rumours of War with the lygre Heathen Our Saviour speaks of these things as Warnings 2. By Ministerial Denunciations As Loud as I can I tell you all in the further Corners yonder The Day of Judgment is Coming And 3. By Angelical Ministration We have their Inward Workings on our Spirits We have Heavenly Infusions from them and we have Operations of Gods Holy Spirit The Knock then is as in Rev. 3.20 Behold I stand at the Door and Knock if any man hear my Voice and open the door I will come in to him and will sâ—p with him and he with me Besides this Near the Time the Voice of the Son of God shall be heard through the Whole World lâ—ke the Roaring of the Sea This is when the Judgment is just beginning And â—â—e Angels shall Trumpet with a greater Noise than that at Sinaâ—â— Upon the whole Observe and Bewayl the horrible Stupidity of the World The Inconsiderate soon grow Debauched Speak to them of Judgments they will kick and say Out be gone you Hypocrite Well The Divel is in that Tongue Lament these as Monica did her Filium tot Lacrymarum Be much with God for them Leave not until God strike the Arrow of His Loveing Vengeance into their Hearts What if this Bible be Gods Word Sinners Where are you then As in the story of the Hermite Remember The Seasons of Grace are sew When the Spirit of God comes nigh to the Heart And row Take some Antidotes against security Antidote I. Consider the Wonderful Suddenness 〈…〉 Day of Judgment 〈…〉 â—â—at if you Dy before you go 〈◊〉 of the Assembly A Last Day â—ill come Who knows which Palâ—â—â— Mors will take first Antidote II. Consider As our Lord comes like Theef like Lightening so the sentâ—nce will be Irreversible and the Judgâ—ent Unavoidable Gold will not bribe Charon The Wicked shall not stand in Judgment but they shall be there Antidote III. Consider the Impossibility of Escapeâ—â—â— Judgment is past There can 〈◊〉 no Writ of Error no Appeal Think on Eternity and let the â—â—pressions of it be kept in the Imaâ—â—â—ation of the Thought of your Hearts 〈◊〉 ever FINIS ADVERTISEMENT THere is lately Published 〈◊〉 little Book Intituled The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Spirit in a Discourse which Layeâ— open the Manifold and Amazinâ— Wounds of a Troubled Conscience and Pours the Balsame of Seasonable Counsils and Comforts into those Terrible Wounds By the Reverend Cotton Mather Sold at the Book-seller's Shops 〈◊〉 Boston Price bound 1 s. Stich'd 8 d.
Dim Rusâ—â—aâ—ale which the Heathen had in their Notions about the Burning and the â—udging of the World might be much â—ighted at the Lamp of the Israe◠〈◊〉 Sanctuary But yet meer Natural Conscience did use to warn the Rudest Pagans of a Judgment which God will at Last bring mankind into Hence Felix the Governour before Paul the Prisoner Trembles at the Tidings of a Iudgment to come he had a Preacher in his Bosome that gave him a terrible Premoâ—ition of it The very proceedings of the Last Iudgment are antedated in our Consciences and the Triumphs of Conscience upon our Well-doing the Horrours of Conscience upon our Wickedness the Inferences of Conscience from the Intricate Things every Day happening in the World are so many most penetrating Intimations of that Judgment wherein we are to stand before the Lord. Now the certainty of that Notable Day being a thing as clear and sure as Day it self it becomes us to silence all the Cavils of Carnal Reason against any oâ— its Unfathomable Circumstances by aâ— Faith acquiescing in this Assurance of it Thus saith the Lord. Indeed whaâ— Paul says about the first of the Transactions belonging to this Day of thâ— Lord may I say about the whole Afâ—yr of the Day Why should it be Thought 〈◊〉 thing Incredible with you All the Cavils which our Unbelief caâ—â— make â—gainst this Word of God are Sufficiâ—atly and Eternally taken off with Demanding Is any thing too hard for â—e Lord But some of the Cavils that â—ave seem'd Specious will upon Second Thoughts be found so Absurd that â—ven Common sense it self would hiss â—t them Such is that Objection Where will there be room for such a Vast Multitude as Adam with all his Chilâ—ren The whole surface of the Earth â—ould not hold them all Ridiculous Exâ—eption Allow that this World should â—ast no less than Ten-Thousand Years which it will not Allow that there â—re at once alive a Thousand Millions of men which there are not Allow all â—hese to march off every Fifty years with a New Generation rising up in â—heir stead and allow each of these â—ndividuals a place Five foot Square to â—tand upon I think these are Fair Alâ—owances I would now pray the Obâ—ector if he have any skill at Arithmetick to Compute Whether a Spot of Ground much less than England which contains perhaps about Thirty Mâ—llions of Acres but about a Thousandth Part of the Terraqueous Glob and about the Three Hundred thirty third part of the Habitable Earth would not hold them all I say then we have something else to do than to Cavil the unexceptionable Doctrine of the Last Iudgment it is our Interest and Business to Improve it with deep Impressions thereof upon our Souls S. 4. Of such an Aspect are all Things in the Day of Judgment as that the Apostle might well call it The Terror of the Lord. But me thinks there is nothing that gives more Dread unto a Soul awakened out of Sinful Slumbers than that ETERNITY wherein this Day Expires that Eternal Issue that Eternal Event which depends upon the Day The last Judgment fixes the Children of men like so many Rocks in the Ocean of Eternity Men will then be Immortalized and their State of Weal or Wâ—â— will be so inwrought into the very Beings of them that Immortal Things â—ay as easily cease to Be as for a â—ighteous or Wicked man to pass â—nto another State than what he is â—hen Confirmed in T is a Passage in â—hat Memorable and Perhaps Historical â—arable which decribes the State of â—en in the other World that after â—his Day men have A Great Guilf â—â—xed unto them there is by the Deâ—ree of God such a Vast Pit about the Children of men that they cannot pasâ— put of the State wherein they are The Nature of things will then require â—hat they be Vnalterable the Children of men will then be most Immediately Siezed either by the Goodness or by the â—ustice of God and because our God Himself Changes not therefore the state of men becomes then Vnchangeable nor will it stand with the Wisdom of the most High to alter the Sentence â—hen Pronounced about the State of Weal or Wo which will then belong unto us At the Day of Judgment all Righteous men shall be adjudg'd unto a State of Eternal Happiness T is a Life Eternal t is an Eternal Salvation t is an Eternal Inheritance t is an Everlasting Habitation and they are Pleaâ— sures for ever more of which the Believer shall be made Partaker Afteâ— he ha's been in the mansions of thâ— Blessed as many Millions of Ages aâ— there are Sun-beams in the Universeâ— he will still continue there Thâ— stately Pillars in Solomons Temple werâ— thence removed but the Believeâ— shall now become a Pillar in the Temple of his God from whence he shalâ— no sooner go out than the Temple iâ— self â—â—all Tumble down A Deyoâ—â— Person at a â—easâ— said well In Heaven there is Good Cheer and Gooâ— Company and so there is here but in Heaven there is no Taking away The â—â—â—â—estial Satisfactions of the Believer â—â—ll never be disquieted with such a Thought as this At the Long run these things will have an end God will not Repent of the Love which He has freely set upon him â—â—nor will Christ ever Suffer one of His own Members to be Pluck'd away But at the Day of Judgment all Wicked men shall be adjudg'd unto a State of Eternal Miâ—ry T is a Worm which Dyeth not and 〈◊〉 Fire which is not Quenched whereâ—ithal the Sinner shall be Cruciated 〈◊〉 is an Eternal Damnation and it is 〈◊〉 Everlasting Destruction Suppose an â—eap of as many Little Poppey-seeds 〈◊〉 according to the old Ptolemaick â—ystem would fill the whole Machin â—f the World and no more than one â—f them in a Thousand years fetch'd â—way but the Sinner in Anguish till â—he heap were all wasted so behold â—nd be amazed All this Long while â—ould be but as a Drop to the Ocean â—ompar'd with that Forever that â—orrible Forever whereto the Torâ—ents of the Damned shall be Lengthâ—ned Fifty two Cyphers and One Fiâ—urt at the Head of them would Comâ—rehend as the Learned and Noble â—tto de Guerick affirms it the Numâ—er of the Little Poppey-seeds in the prodigious Heap newly mentioned But I say then suppose a Scroll as â—arge as the Starry Heaven it self all â—illed with Figures of Nine and yet â—o many Myriads of Ages as would be therein deciphered are Nothing to that Endless Duration which the Torments of the Damned shall be made Exquisite withal It may be said unto the sinner Are not thine Iniquities Infinite A Sin Committed against an Infinite God Exposes a man unto an Infinite Wrath. The sinner makes himself a prey to an Infinite Vengeance and the Exercises of that Vengeance must be Infinite or they bear no Proportion to the Desert of the sinner now they cannot be Infinite for the Degree