The general Conjlagr:,at~on. ~ta.te IV. Lajl!y, Sentence being pall: en both parties, follows the full execution of the f~tme, ver. 46 . A'nd theft /hall go llWt1J into everlafling punijhment, _but the righteouJ intr; li_(e eternal. The damned _{hall get no reprieve, but go to thetr place withput delay; they ihall be driven away from the . judgment-feat into hell; and the faints foal/ enter into the ling'1 palace (Pf<~l.xlv.I5 .) namely, into heaven· the feat of the bleifed. But our Lord Chrifi:, and his glorious– company, iha1l keep the field that d.ay, and fee the backs of all their enemies; for the damned go off firfi:. , In this d;q of the Lord, the great day, !hall be the general conflagration; by which thofe vifible hea· vens, the earth, and fea {hall paf& away. 1\iot that the:t fhall be annihiEned, (or reduced to norhing) that is not the operation of fire, but they fhall be diflolved, and· purged by that fire, from all the effcCl:s of fin, or of the curfe upon tl1em; a1id then renewed, and made more glorious and fiable. Of this conflag ration, the A· poflle Peter_fpeaks, 2 Pet :, iii.to. But the day of the LoTd rwill came, aJ a tbie.f in the night: in the which the heavens jhall pajj artvay with a great 111Jije . and th·e elementJ jhall 111elt ~ith fervent h~at: the earth alfo, ami' t .he rwor.~J that ~re -there-injhali be hurnt up . See alio ver. 7, .1-2. And of the renewing of the world, he adds, ver • .. J' 3· Never· tbeli!fl rwe according to hiJ pnmife, look for ntlrtu heaven!, «nd a nerw earth, wherein dweileth righteou.fm:fs. It feems mo fi agreeable .to the tcriptures, and the na– ture of the thing. to conceive th-is conflagration to fol- ' low after the general judgment; fentence being p a fl: on. both parties before it. And I judge it probable, that it . will fall in with th e otitting of the feutence in execution ._,_ f 1 L. \ againH the damned; fo as they £hall (according to their fenteHce) c)epart, a nd ~he_heav e ns and the eard~ pafs away, together and at once, at that turious re.buke from the throne, driving away the damned out of the world (in . th;s fire) to the everlafi:ing fire prepared for the dev;il and his angels. Even as, in the deluge, with which .the, A~ poltle Peter, compares the conflagration, or burr1ing of the world, 2Pet . iii.6,7.) theworlditfelt, and the wick– ed upon it peritbed together; the fame water which de– ~roy~d the earth, fweeping away the inhabitants. For it
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