Revelation 20

The canker that breeds in the rose is the cause of its perishing; and corruptions that breed in men's souls, are the cause of their damning. Sin without repentance brings the second death (Revelation 20:14), that is, mors sine morte, Bernard, a death always dying. Sin's pleasure…

4. Original sin without repentance exposes to hell and damnation. This is the second death (Revelation 20:14). Two things in it:

1. Bonds and chains (2 Peter 2:4). 2. The worm (Mark 9:44), this is the worm of conscience, and the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15) — other fire is but painted to this. 2. This house of hell is haunted with devils (Matthew 25:41).

The dead are cited as well as the living. Men when they die, avoid the censure of our law-courts, but at the last day, the dead are cited to God's tribunal (Revelation 20:12). I saw the dead small and great stand before God.

Response. Yes, all that are in the graves shall hear Christ's voice, and shall come forth (Acts 24:15). There shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust (Revelation 20:12). I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God.

So inconceivable and torturing is God's wrath that the wicked call to the rocks and mountains to fall on them, and hide them from it (Revelation 6). The hellish torments are compared to a fiery lake (Revelation 20:15); other fire is but painted in comparison of this: And this la…

(John 12:48) The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day. We read of the opening of the books (Revelation 20:12). This is one book God will open, the book of Scripture, and will judge men out of it.

But to an awakened conscience, there is no such burden as sin, when a man seriously weighs with himself the glory and purity of that majesty which sin has offended, the preciousness of that soul which sin has polluted, the loss of that happiness which sin has endangered, the gre…

Question. How should we lead this temporal life, that we may rise to glory, after death? Answer. This, Saint John teaches us, Revelation 20:6. Blessed and holy is he that has his part in the first resurrection: for, on such the second death has no power. We must therefore labor…

God doth so call as draw, John 6:44. Conversion is styled a Resurrection, Revelation 20:6. Blessed is he that has part in the first Resurrection; that is a rising from sin to grace.

And the second is as well taken for the grave, as for hell. (Revelation 20:14) Death and are cast into the lake of fire. Now we can not say, that hell is cast into hell, but the grave into hell.

And this discrimination or differencing has these four steps. 1. There is a differencing in God's purpose in respect of the end, while all men are alike before him, some are designed to eternal life, others not; therefore Matthew 25:34 it is said, "Come, you blessed of my Father…

Zephaniah 3:10: From beyond the river of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughters of my dispersed shall come. 4. Their names are particularly enrolled in the Lamb's book of life (Luke 10:20; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 20:15). As citizens of some famous incorporation, or sena…

Answer: I will show a third. Paul says, that before the end, there shall be a departure (2 Thessalonians 2), and this departure is general in all nations (Revelation 13:16), and after a thousand years there shall be the first resurrection (Revelation 20:5), and this resurrection…

For as he will deny anything in justice that denied to Dives a drop of water to cool his tongue (Luke 16:24-25), so he will recompense anything in mercy, that will recompense a cup of cold water (Matthew 10:42). This integrity in judgment without partiality is signified by the w…

And doubtless the Evidences that will be made use of in their Trial, will be such as will be best fitted to serve the Ends of the Judgment; namely the Manifestation of the righteous Judgment of God, not only to the World, but to Men's own Consciences. But the Scriptures do abund…

He then, above all other times, will appear as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in infinite greatness and majesty, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, with all the holy angels, and the earth shall tremble before him, and the hills shall melt. This is he, spoken of in R…

(8.) The consideration of the great day, shod move your bowels of pity for them. O remember that Text, Revelation 20. 12, &c. I saw the dead small and great stand before God.

The giants that were in those days, in all likelihood, got themselves their renown by their great exploits against Heaven, and against Christ and his church, the remaining sons of God that had not corrupted themselves. We read, that just before the world shall be destroyed by fi…

And so the apostles were, as it were, in subordination to Christ, made foundations of the Christian church. See Ephesians 2:20 and Revelation 20:14. 3. Here is an appointment of Christian baptism.

All these shall now rise from the dead. The graves shall be opened everywhere in all parts of the world, and the sea shall give up the innumerable dead that are in it, Revelation 20:13. Now all the inhabitants that ever shall have been upon the face of the earth, from the beginn…

So in that day when the great trump shall sound, bone shall come to his bone, and the graves shall not be able to hold them a minute longer. Both sea and earth must render the dead that are in them (Revelation 20:13). When the seed appears above ground again, it appears much mor…

These were the sufferings of those times; we shrink at every thing, at every scorn and frown. As for after times, it pleased God to stir Constantine a Christian Emperor, and then the Church had some rest; to which some apply that place, Rev. 20:2 Satan was bound a thousand years…

Ep. 16. Eighthly, in reproaches and sufferings there are riches of glory both before the day of Judgement and after: riches of glory before; if so be that opinion of some be true (which I dare not altogether deny) of Christs coming to reign in the world here before the day of Ju…

Ah! I have cause to fear and tremble, lest God has left me under that Curse, Revelation 20:11. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still. I fear I am become as that myrie place, Ezekiel 47:11▪ that shall not be healed by the streams of the Gospel, but given to salt, and cursed int…

When the soul is turned out of doors, when it is cited to appear before the tribunal of God, then we give up our account. But especially at the great day: (Revelation 20:12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; that is, the book of co…

In the same hour came forth fingers of a mans hand, and wrote upon the Plaister of the Wall of the Kings Palace, and the King saw part of the hand that wrote: then the Kings countenance was changed. We read of Gods Book, Revelation 20:12. The books were opened: and his Bag, Job…

Many profess faith and love; but if it be not verified in practice, they are not accepted with God (1 Peter 1:17): "If you call on the father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work." And (Revelation 20:12): "I saw the dead, small and great, stand be…

It should therefore prevail with you for your direction in this world — you will be judged by it then, it stands you in hand to be ordered by it now. Revelation 20:12: The books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those things written in their books according to their w…

His exceeding great power, according to the [illegible] of his mighty power in you that believe, as [illegible] wrought in Christ in raising him up from the dead. Hence the working of grace is called a resurrection (Revelation 20:6; John 5:20). The dead shall hear the voice of t…

God will reward the merciful man hereafter, though not for his works, yet according to his works. Revelation 20:12: I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, accordi…

Here take notice of two things: 1. The process in law (Revelation 20:12): "The books were opened." It is a metaphor taken from the manner of our courts of judicature, where there is the whole process, every circumstance traversed, and the witnesses examined.

The third thing to come, is, His Charge read: I will reprove you, and set your sins in order before you (Psalm 50:21). As God has a bottle for tears, so he has a book to register men's sins (Revelation 20:12). The books were opened.

3. If infants be born without sin, as Anabaptists teach, they die, and go either to Heaven — and so Christ took not on him their nature, and is not their Savior — or they go to everlasting torment, and yet never sinned, which is repugnant to Divine Justice; or to some third plac…

Answer: The Law and Covenant of Works is a rule of everlasting righteousness, and so may be called an everlasting righteousness containing precepts of the Law of nature intrinsically good, such as to know, love, fear, and trust in him as the only true God: and in this sense it i…

Though he has lost his sanctity, yet not his knowledge: Though he has lost his breastplate, yet not his headpiece. He has wit enough to deceive the Nations, Revelation 20.3. His understanding is nimble, and being compared with ours, is like the swift flight of an Eagle, compared…

1. It is Sulfurous, it is mixed with brimstone, Revelation 21:8. which is unsavory and suffocating. 2. It is unextinguishable; though the wicked shall be choked in the flames, yet not consumed, Revelation 20:10. And the Devil was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where t…

2. The severity of Hell torment. It is expressed by a lake of Fire, Revelation 20.15. Fire is the most torturing Element.

Then I saw the man that sat upon the cloud open the book, and bid the world draw near. Yet there was, by reason of a fierce flame that issued out and came from before him, a convenient distance between him and them, as between the judge and the prisoners at the bar. (1 Corinthia…

There are two things especially in hell to torment. 1. Fire, Revelation 20:15. It is called a lake of burning fire, Augustine, Peter Lombard, Gregory the Great, say, this fire of hell is a material fire, though they say it is infinitely hotter than any culinary fire; that is but…

What if the word everlasting be in two instances applied to the fire of hell? In other instances it is applied to the punishment, to the destruction, to the smoke of the torment, and to the torment itself of the damned, Revelation 20:10, "And" [they] shall be tormented, day and…

The present state of the fallen angels is a state of torment to a certain degree. They "believe and tremble:" "They are reserved in chains under darkness, to the judgment of the great day," (Jude 6): "They are cast down to hell," (2 Peter 2:4): "The devil that deceived them, was…