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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 10
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2. The case of those that have ⟨p. 173⟩had the Gospel, is more plainly opened to us in Gods word. Their Sentence is opened in many places of Scripture, but most fully in Matth. 25. whence we will now collect it.
There we find that Jesus Christ the Redeemer, as King of the world, shall sit in Judgement on all men at the last; and shall separate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats, and so shall pass the final Sentence. This Sentence is twofold, according to the different Condition of them that are Judged. To them on the right hand, there is a Sentence of Justification, and Adjudication to everlasting glory; To them on the left hand, here is a Sentence of Condemnation to everlasting Punishment.
The Sentence on each of these containeth, both the state which ⟨p. 174⟩they are Judged to, and the reason or cause of the Judgement to that state. For as God will not Judge any to Life or Death, without just cause, so he will publish this cause in his sentence, as it is the manner of Judges to do; If you say, Christ will not use a voice; Let it satisfy, that though we know not the manner, yet if he do it but by mental discovery, as he shows men what shall everlastingly befall them, so he will show them why it shall so befall them.
The Sentence on each of these containeth, both the state which ⟨p. 174⟩