Theology Author:John McDowell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON LVI. HELL. MATTHEW XXV. 46. FIRST CLAUSE. " And these shall go away into everlasting punishment." We have in former discourses attended to the s... more »olemn transactions of the judgment day; and have heard the different sentences which will then be pronounced upon the righteous and upon the wicked. To the righteous, the Judge will say, " Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Mat. xxv. 34. But to the wicked, he will say, " Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the.devil and his angels." Mat. xxv. 41. Our text, with the rest of the verse, contain the execution of these sentences. " And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal. From the description given by our Saviour in the 25th chapter of Matthew, of the proceedings of the judgment day, it appears, that sentence will first be pronounced upon the righteous; but that the sentence pronounced upon the wicked, will be first executed. To treat of the punishment of the wicked, will therefore be the first in order. This is the subject of our text. " These"—that is the persons who in the judgment day will be placed on the left hand of the Judge, and after a full and impartial trial will be proved to be wicked; and on whom the sentence will be pronounced, " Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels,"— " these shall go away into everlasting punishment." This brethren is a dreadful subject, and one which the wicked generally dislike to hear. But it makos a part ofthat system of truth, which God has thought proper to reveal; and of that whole counsel of God, which it is my duty, not to shun to declare unto you. And it is important that the truth in our...« less