compared with that of God. 2 t however they were efteemed, depart accurfediSERM. into everlafling fire prepared for the devil XI. and his angels. Then (hall the former re -`'-"e"-j ceive the kingdom prepared fir them by their Father, from the beginning of the world, and be adorned each with a crown of righteouf- nefs, life, and glory; then fhall commence the difmal degradation of the other by the juft fentence of the fovereign lord, they fhall be covered with 'ham and everlafling con - tempt, and be thrown into outer darknefs, where fhall be weeping, and wailing, and gnafhing of teeth. I come now to make fome ufeful obferva- tions from this fubje t. And, firfl, it is pro - per to obferve, that the apoftle, here, is far from intending to depreciate all human judi- cature, or diminifh the regard which is due to it for the important reafons upon which it is founded. What if it be called a very little thing in comparifon with the judgment of God ? So furely it is ; it does not therefore follow that it is nothing at all, of no con - fideration to the affairs and interefts of our prefent condition, and that it fhould be wholly taken away. What if it be liable to uncer- tainties, that its fentences either of acquittal or condemnation are but minute things when U 2 fet
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