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everlasting punishment of those on the right, into everlasting; life.
Bear with me a little, Reader for I have your soul’s good at heart, while I endeavour to set before you, shortly, the characters and respective dooms of these two classes of men
The characters, I think, will be unfolded to you, together with the ground on which the sentence is pronounced upon each if you attend, with a serious mind, to the following brief remarks.
It is plain from the scriptures, that men shall be judged according to their works. Consult in your Bible the following passages, and study the connection of each of them. Matth. xvi. 27. 2 Cor. v, 10. Rom. ii. 6. Rev. xx. 12, 13. xxii. 12. Eccles xii. 14. From these passages, it is evident, that men’s works are to be brought into judgment.
But if this be the case, may we not well inquire. ‘who is able to stand before the Holy Lord God?’ 1 Sam. vi. 20.—Mark the character, 'the Holy Lord God.’ The law of this God is, and must be, like himself, infinitely holy, just, and good. Rom. vii. 12. The sum of it is, ‘Love to Him with all our heart, and soul, and strength, and mind,’ Mark xii. 29, 30 i.e. the perfection of obedience in heart and life. And surely, the infinitely Holy, and infinitely Good, does not, in this law, demand more than he has a right to claim. Of this law, you and I, and all our fellow men, are transgressors. This law, therefore, lays all of us under a sentence of condemnation. Its language is, ‘Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them,’ Gal. iii. 10. Be
