Preached by Jonathan Edwards, 1721-1722
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment. Hebrews 9:27
How solemn and awful a thing is it to receive an eternal doom and sentence. It is accounted an awful thing to receive sentence of an earthly judge; it is what has made the stoutest hearts to tremble. What, then, must it needs be to receive an everlasting sentence from the great God which will determine our condition without end?
1. The sentence of the Judge in the other world will determine to the everlasting happiness of the godly.
The godly in this world are oftentimes judged by temporal judges to pain and torment. Millions of godly men have been adjudged to tormenting deaths. But after the Judge of heaven and earth has past that blessed sentence upon them, Matthew 25:34, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world," they will be happy and inherit that kingdom, that glorious kingdom, in spite of all the regions of darkness, which will then be put everlastingly out of a capacity of molesting of them, and the godly will be exalted clear out of the reach of their molestations.
2. The sentence of the great Judge will determine the misery of the wicked to eternity.
O how dreadful and amazing will every word and syllable of that...
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