The World to Come, Or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death, and the Glory or Terror of the Resurrection; To Which Is Prefixed, an Essay Toward the Proof of a Separate State of Souls After Death Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ...I called you to partake of this invaluable blessing freely, " without mone and without price," and yet you slighted all these offers of mercy; what remains but that my wrath should kindle against you in the hottest degree, and fill vouf-souls with exquisite anguish and misery; you hav- refused to accept of a covenant which was sealed with the blood of my own Son, which was confirmed by miraculous operations of my own Spirit; you have valued your sinful pleasures, and the trifles of this vain world, above the blood of my Son, and the life of your souls: It is divinely proper that divine vengeance should be your portion, who have rejected such rich treasures of divine love.' Heb. x. 28--31. ' He that despised Moses' law, died without mercy, under two or three witnesses; of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith be was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said vengeance belongeth unto me, I will repay, saith the Lord.' 3. It is wrath that 'must avenge the affronts and injuries done to the prime minister of God's government, and the chief messenger of his mercy.' All the Patriarchs, and the Prophets, and Angels themselves, were but 'servants' to bring messages of divine grace to men: and some of them in awful forms and appearances, represented the authority of God too: But the 'Son of God' is the prime minister of his government, and the noblest ambassador of his grace, and the chief deputy or vicegerent in his Father's kingdom. See Heb. i. 1, 2, PsaJ. ii. 6, 9, 12, His Father's glory and grandeur, compassion and love, are most sublimely exhibited in the...