Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

3. Concerning the aggravations, or vexing considerations, which Gospel sinners will have in their going away; as the sin of those is more heinous, who sin against the light of the Gospel, than of those who sin only against the light of nature: so their punishment will be more severe; all shall be beaten, but these persons with many stripes; as ⟨p. 120⟩there will be degrees in glory; though all will be filled with glory, yet some will have a larger capacity: so there will be degrees of torment and misery, all shall be filled with torment, but some will have a larger capacity, especially Gospel sinners will have stings beyond what heathens will be capable of in their punishment of loss; when

3. Concerning the aggravations, or vexing considerations, which Gospel sinners will have in their going away; as the sin of those is more hainous, who sin against the light of the Gospel, than of those who sin only against the light of nature: so their punishment will be more severe; all shall be beaten, but these persons with many stripes; as ⟨p. 120⟩there will be degrees in glory; though all will be filled with glory, yet some will have a larger capacity: so there will be degrees of torment and misery, all shall be filled with torment, but some will have a larger capacity, especially Gospel sinners will have stings beyond what heathens will be capable of in their punishment of loss; when

1. They shall have a clear discovery of the glory and happiness which they have missed; now they hear of heaven and the happiness which the Saint• shall have in the vision and fruition of God; but there is a veil of unbelief upon their minds, that they do not apprehend such a happiness as is spoken of; they have mean thoughts of God, and of Heaven: they think there is no heaven like the earth; and no happiness like the fruition of the creatures; no glory like the glory of the world, no treasures like earthly treasures; and no delights like those which they find in the objects of their sense: but when their portion in this life shall be spent; and the good things which they enjoyed shall be taken away from them; when their honours shall vanish like smoke, or a thin vapour; their riches shall fly away like an Eagle, or sail like a ship out of their ight; when their sensual delights and pleasures shall fail them, and die like sweet flowers in their hands; when the bright cloud of earthly things, which shadowed the glory of heavenly things from their view, shall be blown away, and the veil shall be torn in pieces which was before them, and hindered them from looking into the Holy of Holies; and the scales shall fall off from their eyes: In a word, when the heavens shal