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

Tenthly, The Judge shall pronounce the sentence of damnation on all the ungodly multitude. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels, ver. 41. Fearful doom! and that from the same mouth, from whence proceeded the sentence of absolution before. It was an aggravation of the misery of the Jews, when their city was destroyed, that they were ruined by one, who was accounted the darling of the world. O! what an aggravation of the misery of the wicked will it be, that he shall pronounce this sentence also! to hear the curse from mount Zion, must needs be most terrible. To be damned by him, who came to save sinners, must be double damnation. But thus it shall he. The Lamb of God shall rare, as a lion, against them! he shall excommunicate, and cast them ⟨p. 284⟩out of his presence for ever, by a sentence from the throne, saying, Depart from me ye cursed: he shall adjudge them to everlasting fire, and the society of devils for evermore. And this sentence also, we suppose, shall be pronounced with an audible voice, by the man Christ. And all the saints shall say, Hallelujah, true and righteous are his judgments. None were so compassionate as the saints, when on earth, during the time of God's patience. But now that time is at an end; their compassion on the ungodly is swallowed up in joy, in the Mediator's glory, and his executing of just judgment, by which his enemies are made his footstool. Though sometimes the righteous man did weep in secret places for their pride, and because they would not hear; yet then he shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall vash his feet in the blood of the wicked, Psal. lviii. 10. No pity shall then be shown to them, from their nearest relations. The godly wife shall applaud the justice of the Judge, in the condemnation of her ungodly husband: the godly husband shall say Amen to the damnation of her who lay in his bosom: the godly parents shall say Hallelujah, at the passing of the sentence against their ungodly child: and the godly child shall, from his heart approve the damnation of his wicked parents, the father wh• him, and the mother who bore him. The sentence is just […] judged according to their works, Rev. xx. 12.