Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Look to the left hand, and there you will see the cursed goats (all the wicked ones from Cain to the last ungodly person, who shall be in the world) gathered together into one most miserable congregation. There are many assemblies of the wicked now: then there shall be but one. But all of them shall be present there, brought together as one herd for the slaughter, bellowing and roaring. weeping and howling for the miseries come, and that are coming to them. (And remember thou shalt not be a mere spectator, to look at these two so different companies; but must thyself take thy place in one of the two, and shalt share with the company▪ whatever hand it be upon.) These who now abhor no society so much, as that of the saints, would then be glad to be allowed to get in among them, though it were but to lie among their feet. But then not one tare shall be found with the wheat; he will throughly purge his floor. Many of the right hand men of this world will be left-hand men in that day. Many, who must have the door and the right hand of these, who are better than they, (if the righteous be more excellent than his neighbour) shall then be turned to the left hand, as most despicable wretches O how terrible will this separation be to the ungodly! how dreadful will this gathering them together into one company be! what they will not believe, they will then see, namely, that but few are saved. They think it enough now, to be neighbour like, and can securely follow the multitude: but the multitude on the left hand will yield them no comfort How will it sting the ungodly Christian, to see himself set on the same hand with Turks and Pagans! how will it gall men to find themselves standing, profane Protestants with idolatrous Papists; praying people with their profane neighbours who mocked at religious exercises: formal professors strangers to the new-birth and the power of godliness, with persecutors! now there are many opposite societies in the world, but then all the ungodly shall be in one society. And how dreadful will the faces of companions in sin be to one another there! what doleful shrieks, when the whoremonger and his whore shall meet; when the drunkards, who have had many a jovial day together, shall see one another in the face:

Look to the left hand, and there you will see the cursed goats (all the wicked ones from Cain to the last ungodly person, who shall be in the world) gathered together into one most miserable congregation. There are many assemblies of the wicked now: then there shall be but one. But all of them shall be present there, brought together as one herd for the slaughter, bellowing and roaring. weeping and howling for the miseries come, and that are coming to them. (And remember thou shalt not be a mere spectator, to look at these two so different companies; but must thyself take thy place in one of the two, and shalt share with the company whatever hand it be upon.) These who now abhor no society so much, as that of the saints, would then be glad to be allowed to get in among them, though it were but to ly among their feet. But then not one tare shall be found with the wheat; he will throughly purge his floor. Many of the right hand men of this world will be left-hand men in that day. Many, who must have the door and the right hand of these, who are better than they, (if the righteous be more excellent than his neighbour) shall then be turned to the left hand, as most despicable wretches O how terrible will this separation be to the ungodly! how dreadful will this gathering them together into one company be! what they will not believe, they will then see, namely, that but few are saved. They think it enough now, to be neighbour like, and can securely follow the multitude: but the multitude on the left hand will yield them no comfort How will it sting the ungodly Christian, to see himself set on the same hand with Turks and Pagans! how will it gall men to find themselves standing, profane Protestants with idolatrous Papists; praying people with their profane neighbours who mocked at religious exercises: formal professors strangers to the new-birth and the power of godliness, with persecutors! now there are many opposite societies in the world, but then all the ungodly shall be in one society. And how dreadful will the faces of companions in sin be to one another there! what doleful shrieks, when the whoremonger and his whore shall meet; when the drunkards, who have had many a jovial day together, shall see one another in the face: