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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
State 4 › Part 4 › DOCTRINE. There shall be a general Judgment.
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.
xv. 24, 25.) that Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father: when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The which last, as it must be done before the end: so it seems not to be done, but by putting the sentence in execution, past in the day of judgment, against the wicked.
Now if the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, that are set forth for an example, (Jude 7.) was so dreadful: how terrible will that day, be, when the whole world shall be at once in flames! how will wretched worldlings look, when their darling world shall be all on fire? Then shall strong castles, and towering palaces, with all their rich furniture, go up together in one flame with the lowest cottages. What heart can fully conceive the terror of that day to the wicked, when the whole fabric of heaven and earth shall at once be dissolved by that fire! when that miserable company shall be driven from the tribunal to the pit, with fire within them, and fire without them; and fire behind them, and on every hand of them; and fire before them, awaiting them in the lake: whither this fire (for ought appears) may follow them!
Now if the burning of Sodom and Gommorrah, that are set forth for an example, (Jude 7.) was so dreadful: how terrible will that day, be, when the whole world shall be at once in flames! how will wretched worldlings look, when their darling world shall be all on fire? Then shall strong castles, and towering palaces, with all their rich furniture, go up together in one flame with the lowest cottages. What heart can fully conceive the terror of that day to the wicked, when the whole fabric of heaven and earth shall at once be dissolved by that fire! when that miserable company shall be driven from the tribunal to the pit, with fire within them, and fire without them; and fire behind them, and on every hand of them; and fire before them, awaiting them in the lake: whither this fire (for ought appears) may follow them!