A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

1. The sending of Persons judged to their everlasting State, the Elect into Glory, and the Wicked into Torments. For the Elect, Matth. 25.34. Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World. O you have been too long absent: Come, blessed Children! come into my Bosom; Come, possess that which was prepared for you before you had a Being in the World. And then for the Wicked, by a terrible Ban and Proscription they are excommunicated and cast out of the Presence of the Lord: Ver. 31. Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting Fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels. A terrible Ban and Proscription! As Haman's Face was covered when the King was angry, and so he was led away to Execution; so the Wicked banished from Christ's Presence, are accursed to all Eternity, and so enter into their Eternal State. Now from this Sentence, either of Absolution or Condemnation, there's no Appeal; 'tis pronounced by Christ as God-Man. On Earth many times God's Sentence is repealed: God may speak of the Ruin of a Nation, but Free-Grace may interpose. Jer. 18.7, 8. At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation, and concerning a Kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it: If that Nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their Evil, I will repent of the Evil that I thought to do unto them. Deus mutat Sententiam, non Decretum. In the World, tho God doth not change his Decrees, yet he changeth his Sentence many times; the Sentence shows what might be, the Decree shows what shall be. But now this Sentence shall never be reversed. Now is the Day of Patience, then of Recompense: the Day of Patience is past. It is said, Luke 2.14. Peace upon Earth. God may proclaim War against a Soul or People, that he may awaken them to look after their Peace; but this is a Sentence that shall never be changed. The Execution is speedy: here many times the Sentence is past, but not speedily executed against an evil Work, Eccles. 8.11. But here Christ's Sentence presently begins, and the Wicked in the very sight of the Godly are thrust into Hell; Mat. 13.30. Gather ye together first the Tares, and bind them in Bundles to burn them; but gather the Wheat into my Barn: Which doth awaken the Grief and Envy of the Wicked, when they shall see others gathered into the Great Congregation, and themselves thrust out.