Judgments ro Eternal Miſery; lying in two things : 1, Ina hs. p.rture from God, 1o as never more to have any Favour from him 2, In a Senſe of Pain and Miſery, exceeding thar which Fire cauferh
tro a Body conſuming with it. In this Lite wicked Men Te
capable of ſome Preſence of God with them, and receive levery] Cliff
Favours trom God, in Gitts of Common Providence, at:d Coy, feri Grace,which might ferve,eirher as Incouragements tv .ilure co hill or Means to help them; in turning to God; bur havin - abuled cit rieſe, che Righreous God in that Day will rotally depare jr. win; them, and they ſhall receive no more Tokens ot Ki:dul; jg afte Favour trom him : And whereas, by the Advantages ttey };,q Piec trom ſuch a Preſence of Divine Providence , as God was pie4i,q Chri in this Lite co allow them , they lived in fome dezrce. © him Pleaſure and Liberty, which they were not thanktul for, tc, breal ſhall at char Day be adjudyed tro Eternal To;ments. Ner ſhall th; Wine Juſtice of God he impeached for difproportioning Eternal T.;. Pete; ments to Temporary Sizmines; fur che Infinirene!s of the 1. thric: jeſty offended, to which SatisfaQtion is due, is to be contidere!. bubet and is fo amneſt Men, who think it reaſi-nable to reconnz1; and | a Prince, or Noble Man, for an Injury dene c©:; them, witi: Te appret Thouſand Pounds, which they would nor recompence to 4 wed, Equal, with fo many Shillings. Befide, tur every Sinn þb;;h him 4 ſinned in ſuo Tnfinito, ro rhe utmoſt Line of tus Time, and waned we bi nothing, bur more Time to have ſinned more ; tor he },c and R Will ro have finned infinitely. Tius everlaſting Fire. is [49 ;1
be | prep.ired for the Devil and his Angels : | N:.c becaule ics jo; I
allo prepared for Men , but the Evil Angels were adjudged .- i;
betore Man had finned, fo char Man comes bur into a ſhare 17h Y the Evil Angels; and by this God alfo lers us know, that tl pa4t, are the Children of the Devil, by Evil works, Joh. 8.: 44. 1 7, bi 1. the pal 3. 8. Having determined their Puniſhmenrs, and pronounced F crucife rheir Sentence, he comes to juſtifie himfeif in it. | 6; 1s Marh 1 an hungry,and you gave me no meat,&c. ] For here may be unceryrated Unlexven as a Cauſal ; for tho' none. merits his own Salvation, ver cyery Unlexven Sinner's DeſtruQtion is of himſelf, and he mericerh his Concems becrer un tion. The mentioning only of Sins of Omiſſton, and thiſe cyl the follon as to Affs of Charity, doth not only reach us, thar Sins of Oniſtn the Paſſor are enough to Damn us; but that Omiſfions of Ads of Chuiy Lev. 23. 4 to the diſtreſſed Members of Chriſt, are ſuch Sins, as it nt te- Inſtituto! pented of, and waſhed off with the Blood of Chrift, are enyh Month A% ro Condemn us to the Pir of Hell; and ſuch things as God dxh if the Fu keep in Mind, and will in a more ſpecial manner reckon ih this Lamb x Men for, I cannor paſs by a Refle&ion, which I find almcſ al E PFurteenth 1 Interpreters make upon this Text. If choſe in the Day E Erningss (
Jadgmcmt ſhall be ſenr to Hell, who do nor feed the poor Men: ers of Chriſt , and give them to drink, when chey are ttirſy; what ſhall be done ro rhem , who pluck the Bread our of their Mouths which they have got in the Sweat of their Face, and ill the Drink which their own Labours or others Liber:liry tath given them to drink? If thoſe ſhall have their Porcion iwiththe Devil and his Angels, who give not Entertainment to them when chey are Baniſhed and Strangers, what ſhall hecome of them who are Inſtruments of their Baniſhment , and to make them Strangers ? If ir ſhall go ſo hard with thoſe, that Cloach themnor when they are naked, what ſhall become of thoſe, who any vay help to ſtrip them Naked ? If thoſe ſhall nor eſcape the Vengeance of God, who do nor Viſit them when they are Sick, and in Priſ'n, where ſhall they appear, who caft chem into Priſons, and are meas ot thole Diſeaſes that ſhorten their Lives, by their Barbarous Uſages of them? Thoſe that ſmite their Fellow-Servants, had need be ſure, that it be not for Well-doing. Our Lord here tell us, that the Wicked in that day will fay, {When ſaw we thee an hu gry, &c.] They did nor deny, that they had refuſed to give Bread to the hungry ; bur they deny, that they ever ſaw Chyiit an (ur gry, and did not feed him. Perſecutors have always 11! Names t9 give the Servants of God, pretending ſtill a great Reverence tor God, and Chriſt. Bur mark our Lord's Anſiver , and chat with an Oath ; | Verily T ſay unto youginaſmuch as you did it not tm: of the lea$t of theſe, you did it not to me, Ir is no matrer whar you thought of, or called choſe ro whom you ſhewed no Mercy; you fee they are here at my Right Hand: you might have knowl them ro be my Sheep; you ſaw them Hear my Voice, and F#- ing me; you in caſting them into Priſon, caſt me, in ſtarving chem, you ſtarved me, and in ſtripping them of their Goods, you trip: me : Therefore, *Go ye Curſed into Everlaſting Fire , prepared ji the Devil and his Angels.
46 And * theſe ſhall go away into everlaſting *- puniſhment : but the righteous into life eternal.
So then ir ſeems they ſhall Riſe as well as the other : Thoug! they -live in the Lands of the Grand Sejgnior, or the Great Highs they ſhall nor ( as ſome filthy Dreamers have chought) have ſuch 4 Quiet ſleep in the Graves, but thar the Sound of the Laſt TrumP
> - afterthe Si L theflſh of t den, but 19: Herbs; moth min, it y Lins girded Hand, the Piſts, and 9 Seven Days | teenth Day o at Even, Wrance in 7 E:Yptians, a out of Ezypy may be read Ws a Fi2ure calleth our P he Law of Numb, 28, x Bread (as n Vxation, T, Ot the firſt p At the P.z(ſy; Dor-Poſts's 1 be prinbled Pchul Socie Wards they y foſtedand e the caten /}. and Staves 11 tlejp Journe (in tOken of t Ear 't firing wee, whe "NON was m "rteenth Da
ſhall awaken them. Nor are they our of the Juriſdi&tion of Fn ho a, ang char ſhall be the Judge both of the Quick and the Dead. NT BW > Bs ſhall they eſcape a Judgmenc without che Law, becauſe tne) nave Th: Day, Sinned wickour the Law : Fr the inviſible things of God, ff w__—s MO - Wa Creation of the World, are clearly ſeen, being under/Ioad by the Wi taking _ "2 40
that ere made, even his Erernul Power and Gedliea! , ROM LE
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