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…

So they whose hearts are a whoring after the world, neither desire Christs comming, nor love his appearing. That we may therefore shew and approve our selves to bee the true Spouses of Christ, desire his hasty comming, and say, as (Revelation 20:20) Even so come Lord Jesus, come…

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…

For 3. As to the outward manner of this judgement it shall be with solemnity and great glory (2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8, 9, 10, Jude 14, 15, Daniel 7:9, Revelation 20:4, 5). And this shall be partly for the demonstration of the glory and honor of Jesus Christ, who has been so despi…

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.

Again from that [ordained, or forewritten] observe, God has his books and registers, wherein the persons, behaviors, and eternal estates of all men are recorded. At the Day of Judgment, these books shall be opened (Revelation 20:12). Therefore it should be our care to be able to…

3. Will you fear men or devils who have a God to restrain them? The great Dragon and general of the serpents' seed is under a binding power, who can bind him not only a thousand years but a thousand ages (Revelation 20:2). Have his seed more force to resist Almightiness than the…

And as there has been nothing as yet, with regard to the flourishing of religion, and the advancement of Christ's kingdom, of such extent as to answer the prophecies, so neither has there been any thing of that duration, that is foretold. The prophecies speak of Jerusalem's bein…

And this second destruction of Antichrist, or rather extirpation of his remains, together with the complete extirpation of all remains of Mahometanism, Heathenism and Heresy through the world, and the finishing stroke towards the overthrow of Satan's visible kingdom on earth, an…

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.

God will not let them rest, nor obtain their purposes: the story of Haman must be acted over again; their hearts shall be stirred up to their own ruin. This (Revelation 20:8) is the frame of perishing Babylonians, in the day of Zion's restoration. The reasons are, 1. because at…

They look upon the church of Christ as a feeble people, that has no visible power or defence, and therefore easy to be destroyed; this encourages them to their work; who or what can deliver them out of their hand? With this resolution they come upon the breadth of the earth, and…

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…

3. Puts him to learn by experience new things to day, and to will and decree them fixedly in time, concerning which yesterday and before the world was, he was not fixed in his will to do determinatly any thing, for fear of fatal necessity. For 4. God had either fixed a decree co…

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…

All the passages of your lives wherever you have been, will be called over. They are all written down in a book (Revelation 20:12). The Jews have an apprehension that the angels write down all the works of men, and will produce them at the day of Judgment.

And in particular young men who have walked in the ways of their own hearts, must hold up their guilty hands before the bar of divine justice in that day. I saw the dead small and great stand before God, and the dead were judged according to their works (Revelation 20:12). So th…

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…

It is true, God sometimes to shew his power and the strength of his hand, useth a sharp ax, and strikes a fearful blow, by which he cuts them down at once, but for the most part he does it by divers judgments successive. And it is to be observed that every thing which God does 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…

All good men shall be judged though not condemned (Matthew 25:34). And all wicked men (Revelation 20): the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works. No, the angels…