The Practice of Piety

7 Lastly, when Christ is set in his glorious Throne, ¹and all the many thousands of his Saints and Angels, shining more bright then so many Suns in glory, sitting about him: and the body of Christ in glory and brightness ⟨p. 170⟩surpassing them all: (The Reprobates being separated, and remaining beneath upon the earth; for the right hand signifieth a blessed, ²the left hand a cursed estate:) Christ will first pronounce the sentence of absolution, and bliss upon the Elect: first, because he will thereby increase the grief of the reprobate that shall hear it:³ secondly, to show himself more prone to Mercy then to Judgement. And thus from his Throne of Majesty in the Air, he shall in the sight and hearing of all the world, pronounce unto his Elect. Come ye blessed of my Father, ⁴inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world, for, &c.

7 Lastly, when Christ is set in his glorious Throne, ¹and all the many thousands of his Saints and Angels, shining more bright then so many Sunnes in glory, sitting about him: and the body of Christ in glory and brightnesse ⟨p. 170⟩surpassing them all: (The Reprobates being separated, and remaining beneath vpon the earth; for the right hand signifieth a blessed, ²the left hand a cursed estate:) Christ will first pronounce the sentence of absolution, and blisse vpon the Elect: first, because he will thereby increase the griefe of the reprobate that shall heare it:³ secondly, to shew himselfe more prone to Mercy then to Iudgement. And thus from his Throne of Maiestie in the Ayre, hee shall in the sight and hearing of all the world, pronounce vnto his Elect. Come ye blessed of my Father,