The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon

Now in this present state it often happens, that when ministers and people meet together to debate and manage their ecclesiastical affairs, especially in a state of controversy, ⟨p. 104⟩they are ready to judge and censure one another with regard to each others views and designs, and the principles and ends that each is influenced by; and are greatly mistaken in their judgement, and wrong one another in their censures: But at that future meeting, things will be set in a true and perfect light, and the principles and aims that every one has acted from, shall be certainly known; and there will be an end to all errors of this kind, and all unrighteous censures.

(3.) In this world, ministers and their people often meet together to hear of and wait upon an unseen Lord; but at the day of judgment, they shall meet in his most immediate and visible presence.

Ministers, who now often meet their people to preach to them the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, to convince them that there is a God, and declare to them what manner of being he is, and to convince them that he governs, and will judge the world, and that there is a future state of rewards and punishments, and to preach to them a Christ in heaven, at the right hand of God, in an unseen world, shall then meet their people in the most immediate sensible presence of this great God, Saviour, and Judge, appearing in the most plain, visible, and open manner, with great glory, with all his holy angels▪ before them and the whole world. They ⟨p. 105⟩shall not meet them to hear about an absent Christ, an unseen Lord, and future Judge; but to appear before that Judge, and as being set together in the presence of that supreme Lord, in his immense glory and awful majesty, whom they have heard so often of, in their meetings together on earth.