The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians: who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660Braght, Thieleman J. van (Thieleman Janszoon)
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The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians: who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660
Braght, Thieleman J. van (Thieleman Janszoon)
Anabaptists -- Europe -- Biography; Christian martyrs -- Biography; Persecution
Finally, we believe also, that our Savior Jesus Christ, forever
blessed, shall visibly come again in the clouds, like as he ascended
before; not so humble, lowly, and serving, as he appeared to the world
in his holy incarnation; but glorious and magnificent, with the power
and glory of all his angels; not to call the sinner to repentance,
but to hold the last judgment; to which end he will not only sit upon
the throne of his glory, but, as the natural sun in Spring-time draws
forth from the earth, not only flowers, herbs and good fruits, but also
nettles, thistles, and thorns, so also, the true Sun of righteousness,
Jesus Christ, blessed forever, will then, with the sound of the trumpet
call forth and cause to arise from the earth, all the great number of
the dead who from the beginning of the world up to the present day have
lived, died, and sown their bodies in the earth to corruption, and as
the womb her fruit so shall the sea, hell, and death give up their
dead; then shall the dead be covered with their own skin, and with
their own eyes behold God, yea, be clothed with their own bodies, in or
with which they have here served or despised the Lord. And after those
who then will be still living, will have been changed to immortality
in the twinkling of an eye, the general multitude of all mankind will
be placed before the holy throne of God, where the books of conscience
shall be opened, and also another book, which is the book of life; and
the dead shall be judged according to that which is written in these
books, that every one may receive in his own body, either good or
evil, according to what they have done, or how they have lived here.
Then will the Lord, as a righteous Judge, separate the believers from
the ungodly, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats; and
will set the believers, as obedient lambs, on his right hand; but the
unbelievers, as wicked, rebellious, stinking goats, on his left hand.
He will look upon the lambs with his loving eyes, and say to them in a
voice sweet as the honey comb: “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” But
upon the goats his angry face shall be like the lightning, and his
voice sound like the thunder, and he shall say to them: “Depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels. Matt. 1:21; Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 1:15; Acts 1:11; Rev. 1:7; Matt.
24:30; 2 Thess. 1:7; Matt. 25:31; 16:27; Acts 17:31; Jude 14; Dan.
7:9,13; Mal. 4:2; 1 Thess. 4:16; Matt. 24:31; John 5:29; Dan. 12:2; 1
Cor. 15:42; 4 Esdr. 7:32; Rev. 20:13; Job 19:26; Rev. 1:7; 2 Cor. 5:10;
Matt. 16:27; Rom. 2:6; 1 Cor. 15:51; Matt. 25:32; Ezek. 34:17; Matt.
25:33,34,41; 4 Esdr. 16:10; 2 Thess. 1:8; Luke 17:24.
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