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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
THE SAINTS TREASURY. › HEBR. •. v. 27. the latter end of the Verse.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
By judgement here I do not think the Holy Ghost intends especially the judgement of the great day, (though it be true, that after death the judgement of the great day will follow, and all men must come to judgement; but I shall not speak one word of the judgement of that day.) But there is another judgement that I conceive is the intent of the Holy Ghost here, and that is the particular judgement that passeth upon every soul immediately after death; which is the stating of the ⟨p. 108⟩soul in the eternal condition of it, either of happiness or misery.
By judgement here I doe not think the Holy Ghost intends especially the judgement of the great day, (though it be true, that after death the judgement of the great day will follow, and all men must come to judgement; but I shall not speak one word of the judgement of that day.) But there is another judgement that I conceive is the intent of the Holy Ghost here, and that is the particular judgement that passeth upon every soul immediately after death; which is the stateing of the ⟨p. 108⟩soul in the eternal condition of it, either of happinesse or misery.
While men live here, their condition is not stated by any act of God (though in regard of his eternal purpose it is the same for ever) even the Saints themselves would be here in much hazard and danger about their everlasting estate (in regard of themselves, and what they have actually bestowed upon them) were it not that the grace of God is above them; the people of God in this life, are not without many fears and doubts about their everlasting condition; and what would many poor children of God give to be delivered from their fears, and doubts which are a grievous burden to them, that they might never have fear or doubt more about their eternal estates? Well, if thou beest godly, in a little time it will be so with thee: this is the good that death will bring unto thee, that after death judgement will come to thee; that is, thou shalt be so actually stated in thy everlasting condition, as to be beyond all hazard about it; thou shalt be beyond all fears, and doubts and temptations; thou shalt never fear more, never doubt more, never be tempted more, never more lose any of the good that thou art possessed of: this is the judgement that comes to the Saints after death.