I · Separalt?n hef.-u.•ixt the Righteotu, &c. g4:.g: before thejudgment-feat[ofChrijl, 2 Cor. v. to. Before him jhail be gathered aJ/nationJ, fays the text. · This is to be done by tbe minifhy of angels. By t·hem fha!l the elect be gathered, Mark xiii. 2 7. Then jhall hefend hi! anp_eiJ, and jhall gather together his eletl /rom the jour winr!J. AiuJ they alfo fhall ·gather· the re·probate, JHat. xii. 40., 4 t. So fhal! it ba in the end of th.iJ wor'/d. The Son of man foal! . ftnd forth hiJ ange_!J, and theyJhallgather out ofhi.i kingdr;n.J .all thingi that offend, and the'»z which eh iniquity • .From all corners of the world fhall the inhabitants thereof be gat her ed· ttnto the place where he !hall fet his throne for judgment Sixthly, There !hal I be a feparat.ion made betwixt the righteous and the 1 wicked; the fair company of the elecl fueep being ' fet on Chrifl's right hand, and £he reprobate goats on his left. There is no neceffity to wait for the fepa·· ration, till the trial be over ; fince the patties. do rife: out of their graves, with p~aiu outward mat ks of diftinction, as· was cleared before. The feparation fecms to be effected by that double gathering before mentioned; the one of the elec7~ Mark xiii. 2T· the other of them that do iniquity•, Matth xiii. 4 r. <rhe eletr, being caught up togethr_·r in ths. cloud1, meet th'e Lord in th~ air, (I Thelf:. iv 17 ) aod fo are· fet on his right hand: and the reprobate lift on the earth (Matth. xxilf. 40'.) upon the judge's left hand. Here.· . is now a total· feparation of two parties~ who were alway5 0ppofite to each other, in· their·principles, aims and manner - ·of life ? who when together were a burden the one to the· other, ur.der which the one groaned, and the other raged: hut now they are free1y parted, never to come· together any more. The iron and clay (allude to Dan ;ii. 41, 4 3. J · which could never mix-, are quite feparated : tile one being drawn up into the air, by the auraetive virtue of the }lone.: #ut .out of the mountain, namely, Jefus Chril1; the other· left upon its eanh, to ~e trod under foot. Now, let us look to the right hand, and. there we w.iH fee· a glorious company of faints- fhining, as fo many fl:ars it:11 . .tbeir orbs; and with a chaerful couoten~nce beholding him;. who fitteth upon the throne Here will be two wonderful·, tights, which the world ufed not to fee. ( 1.) A great con~ gregatirm ofthe faintJ, in which fief jo muchaJ one hypocrite...- :r,he.re was l\ bloody Cain.inddam's family_, a cu1fed Ham'
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