The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.Latimer, Hugh
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The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Latimer, Hugh
Bible. Isaiah XXVI -- Sermons; Judgment Day -- Sermons; Sermons, English
The form of judgment shall be in this manner: Christ our Saviour at the
day of judgment, being appointed of God, shall come down with great
triumph and honour, accompanied with all his angels and saints that
departed in faith out of this world before time: they shall come with him
then, and all the elect shall be gathered to him, and there they shall see
the judgment; but they themselves shall not be judged, but shall be like
as judges with him. After the elect are separated from the wicked, he
shall give a most horrible and dreadful sentence unto the wicked,
commanding his angels to cast them into everlasting fire, where they shall
have such torments as no tongue can express.
Therefore our Saviour, desirous to set out the pains of hell unto us, and
to make us afraid thereof, calls it fire, yea, a burning and unquenchable
fire. For as there is no pain so grievous to a man as fire is, so the
pains of hell pass all the pains that may be imagined by any man. There
shall be sobbing and sighing, weeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth,
which are the tokens of unspeakable pains and griefs that shall come upon
those that die in the state of damnation. For you must understand that
there are but two places appointed by Almighty God, for all mankind, that
is, heaven and hell. And in what state soever a man dieth, in the same he
shall rise again, for there shall be no alteration or change. Those who
die repentant and are sorry for their sins—who cry to God for mercy, are
ashamed of their wickedness, and believe with all their hearts that God
will be merciful unto them through the passion of our Saviour Christ;
those who die in such a faith, shall come into everlasting life and
felicity, and shall rise in the last day in a state of salvation. For
look—as you die, so shall you arise. Whosoever departeth out of this world
without a repentant heart, and has been a malicious and envious man, and a
hater of the word of God, and so continues, and will not repent and be
sorry, and call upon God with a good faith, or has no faith at all; that
man shall come to everlasting damnation; and so he shall arise again at
the last day. For there is nothing that can help a soul when departed out
of its damnation, or hinder it of its salvation.
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