these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

These passages so clearly refer to the general judgment, that nothing need be said to establish this application of them, unless it be called in question: I shall wait, therefore, till I hear the objections, before I make any

comments.

2. Another class of proofs clearly limit the judgment to a period subsequent to death and the resurrection.

John v, 28, 29, "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation."

Rev. xx, 12-15, "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

Heb. ix, 27, "It is appointed unto men once to die, but AFTER this the judgment."

2 Tim. iv, 1, "I charge thee, therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom."

Acts x, 42, " And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead."

1 Pet. iv, 5, "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead." Let it be observed on these passages that by the "quick" we are to understand those who shall be alive on the earth when Christ comes to judgment, and by the dead those who are literally dead. The dead shall be raised, and then, together with the quick, shall be judged. This is the order of these events, as may be seen in 1 Thess. iv, 15-17, "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent," shall not be before "them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first," that is, before the quick are judged. "Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

3. In the third class I will put those passages which speak of former generations, and

those who have long been dead, as reserved unto the future judgment.

Matt. x, 15, "Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city," which rejects the Gospel. See also chap. xi, 22, 24. St. Paul, speaking of those Gentiles who lived before Christ, has these remarkable words:-"For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law-in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel," Romans ii, 12-16.

St. Peter says, "If God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment," &c., 2 Pet. ii, 4. St. Jude, speaking of the same characters, is more explicit:-" And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day," Jude 6. Although in the two last passages the subjects of the judgment are fallen angels, and not sinners of mankind; yet the argument from their cases, in support of the future judgment, is equally strong as though spoken of men: for it is not the subjects but the certainty of future judgment that is the object of inquiry.

4. I come in the last place to that class of

Scripture proofs which speak of the adjuncts of the judgment, or those accompanying circumstances, by which its period may be certainly known.

When Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world he shall be attended by his ministers of state, and his appearance shall be with flaming fire, the usual symbol of the Divine majesty. "The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ," &c., 2 Thess. i, 7, 8. The inspired penmen speak of the visible heavens and earth as waxing old and passing away; yea, of a general conflagration, as connected with the judgment. Thus the Apostle Peter: "But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up," 2 Pet. iii, 7, 10.

Let these things be considered in connection with what is said of Christ's "coming with clouds" as he went into heaven; of his "appearing" or becoming visible; of his "coming in glory, with all the holy angels," &c., and you will be convinced that no event can be contemplated in those passages, except that of

the last judgment. Indeed when I consider the frequent mention of this subject in the Scriptures, the manner in which Christ and his apostles speak of it, calling it emphatically the day, that day, the last day, the great day, and the day of judgment; and, above all, when I consider that it is not often mentioned Incidentally, but of set purpose; not seldom, but frequently; not obscurely, but in the clearest and strongest terms; not independently, but deriving support from other doctrines; not to amuse the credulous, or frighten the superstitious, but to arouse the attention of all, -to alarm the fears of the guilty, to quicken the good, to assert the rights, and maintain the justice of God's throne; I cannot but think it the greatest rashness to deny or call it in question.

I have now laid before you a part of the evidence which supports the important doctrine of a future judgment; and though the subject is far from being exhausted, you may perceive that few subjects are capable of being support ed by evidence so full and satisfactory. I would ask the deniers of this doctrine how it ought to have been expressed to be entitled to credit? Can they find any clearer expressions than those which have been employed? Observe, the judgment is uniformly described as an event still future. That we may not mistake its period, it is said to be after death, and otherwise described as following the general resurrection. As though to put it beyond