Judgment

“How near the enemies of God’s people are to ruin and destruction.”

“As their sin is most offensive unto God here—so His wrath will certainly come upon them with the greatest severity hereafter!”

“Thus, on the contrary, those terrors God strikes their adversaries’ hearts withal, are like tokens and evidences of hell, no other than the suburbs, the first-fruits of hell, and shadow of death.”

“Upon our little, short, uncertain inch of time, depends matters of more consequence than ten thousand, thousand worlds are worth, and if we miscarry in this little time of our lives, we are lost and undone forever.”

“Carrying the oil-less vessel with the untrimmed, unlit lamp of an outward Christian profession, we dream that all is safe until the startling summons to meet the Bridegroom awakes us to consciousness, to conviction, to despair!”

“When once a man is damned, he may bid adieu to all pleasures.”

“When once the sinner has passed that awful boundary, his soul is completely lost; his hopes are extinguished; the blackness of darkness for ever lies before him.”

“And are you not by your sins, exposed unto the vengeance of eternal fire?”

“As therefore a potter breaks a vessel that hath poison put into it by another, though it be his own vessel, so God justly destroys his own creature when corrupted by the devil.”

“Believe that a hypocrite, with the cunning and shrouds for his hypocrisy, can go unseen no further than the grave, nor can he longer flatter himself with thoughts of life.”

“Well, to this fearful end, before it be long, must every one that hath a hard heart come, unless they repent.”

“Some God gives up to a profane spirit in the midst of the means, a fearful brand.”

“God will not always strive with us, but will give us up to our own courses, to live and die under the dominion of the devil, and so will glorify himself in our confusion.”

“Thy own conscience, that tells thee thou hast sinned, summons thee before the great and righteous Judge, who demands full satisfaction for the violation of his laws, and thy offences committed against him.”

“For profession and conscience cannot be separated long; if a man then shall make profession without conscience of God's honour in his conversation, his profession and conscience will meet in the day of his visitation.”

“If your friend is wicked, though he were your friend on earth, you will cease to be his friend in heaven.”

“In one sense every eye shall see Him; but in the true and blessed meaning of the word, He shall appear, or show Himself only to those who are now looking to Him as the Saviour.”

“By "the winepress of God's wrath" we are to understand the place where the wicked shall be punished.”

“Who can dwell with devouring fire!" Think of the extremity of pain and anguish, which is prepared for you!”

“Christ says that even infidels, who refused to believe God's word, shall be judged by it.”

“All the secret counsels of his heart, his over-reaching and going beyond poor souls, the utmost and extremity of that malice and envy he acted all with, shall be detected, and thou a poor believer shalt be a judge of all these.”

“But all this time you may be walking in the broad way which leads to destruction.”

“Why is he punished with death, who clips the king's coin or defaces his statue—but because it is an abuse offered to the person of the king?”

“Plainly, the wrath to come, is the same as the punishment of hell, the great effect of the wrath of God.”

“So charges Christ himself: "You will not come to me, that you might have life." So charge the apostles: "You judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life." Unbelief persisted in, seals our perdition.”

“Where are you going?” So may a man that has his portion in this world say at his death, where is this poor soul of mine going?”

“The snares they lay for others catch themselves. ‘In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.’ Psa 9: I5.”

“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”

“I think that in these days God punishes many men's former wickednesses, by giving them up to soul-ruining errors .”

“The one is pœna damni , that they have lost heaven and happiness, and that wringeth them; the other is pœna sensus , the feeling of the wrath of God.”

“What then, are all our earthly enjoyments —with the sword of divine vengeance hanging over our head!”

“Reader, think of the world's tinsel gifts —weigh Satan's wages, as earned in time, and paid in the eternal world.”

“But what if God will not give you a heart, but will harden your heart and give you up to yourself?”

“He that mourns not now, while the door of mercy is open, must mourn for sin when the door of mercy is shut.”

“There they will lie ; there they will fry , and there they will cry!”

“Prophetic oracles, for example, were divine pronouncements of either weal or woe.”

“Is there any way for you to escape—but by Jesus Christ, the only Deliverer from wrath to come?”

“When you are dreaming of earth's long, calm, summer days, He will come.”

“All have been “ covered with a cloud” in the day of the fierce anger of the Lord!”

“Instead of being as gods, they became as the beasts that perish.”

“To hate sin is his nature; and that sin deserves death, is also the natural and inseparable property, consequent, and demerit of it.”

“Would men be covetous, be fornicators, drunkards, &c., if they believed that the wrath of God comes upon such?”

“They who will not confess their sin as David did, that they may be pardoned, shall confess their sin as Achan did, that they may be stoned.”

“If the sins of the godly be mentioned at the day of judgment, it will not be to shame them, but to magnify the riches of God's grace in pardoning them.”

“Thus stands the natural man under the curse; it is upon him, it is round about him; go where he will, there is no shifting of it, all his days he wades through these waters; he is in the deep mire, where there is no firm standing.”

“That must needs be sad fare (as Latimer says) where weeping is served for the first course, and gnashing of teeth for the second.”

“The barrenness with which the earth is cursed, in not bringing forth good fruit, and its abounding with briars and thorns — are both as rods for the scourging of sinful man.”

“Think of the eternity of hell's torments—that when you have been there as many millions of years as there are grains of sand in the ocean—that your torment will be but beginning!”

“And for thee, unsaved one, there remaineth nought but the everlasting darkness, which no star shall gladden, and on which no hope shall arise.”

“Other slaves are brought to correction, but sin’s slaves are without repentance, and are brought to condemnation.”

“The one is pœna damni, that they have lost heaven and happiness, and that wringeth them; the other is pœna sensus, the feeling of the wrath of God.”

“God's vial of wrath will be always dropping upon a wicked man.”

“The third penal affection is, fear and trembling before God's judgments and his threatenings, a fear of the majesty of God, whom we have offended, which is able to send us to hell if his mercies were not beyond our deserts.”

“They are held busy, and even busy working their own ruin, kicking against the pricks, digging for the grave as for hid treasures.”

“Then all who have served Christ with the heart shall hear Him say, “Come, you who are blessed of My Father — receive the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world!”

“In this life the godly are called the troublers of Israel, seditious , rebellious and what not! but a day is shortly coming, when God himself will proclaim their innocency.”

“We must all appear before his judgment-seat, who will require of us whether we have done and observed what he hath commanded us or no.”

“Earth,—the whole earth,—is the guilty region, on which the fire should be poured.”

“If guilt remains, then punishment will ensue—God's eternal wrath in hell.”

“Men may step up into the throne of God, and there presume to judge others according to their interests and passions: but God will quickly pull them down, and teach them better to know their places.”

“He who does most work here—shall have most reward hereafter.”

“Whereas thou didst unbuild Jerusalem and my temple, I will unbuild thee, so as not so much as a stone of thee shall serve for any other building, but my Sion shall be built again.”

“What penalty came upon mankind because of the breach of God's moral law?”

“All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under Heaven.”

“The only way for us to escape that terrible judgment, is to be often passing a sentence of condemnation upon ourselves here.”

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

“By "the treasury of God's wrath" we are to understand the abundance of plagues; by "the vessels of wrath," we are to understand the damned who are appointed to undergo these plagues and torments.”

“The second death yields back no victims; the lake of fire allows no brand to be plucked from its everlasting burnings.”

“It cannot be denied but the devil did God service in trying Job, winnowing Peter, buffeting Paul, executing Judas; yet shall not all this ease the least torment of his damnation.”

“Haman was an agent for the devil, who paid him his wages at last, if you will, with a halter.”

“They will discover the value of their souls — when it is too late to obtain mercy; and see the beauty of the Gospel — when they can derive no benefit from it.”

“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”

“There is a strong presentiment of future punishment, even in the minds of those who are not thus enlightened.”

“This punishment has two parts: the punishment of loss and the punishment of sense.”

“Indeed, in his solemn account of the judgment, in Matthew 25, Jesus Christ mentions no sins but those of omission.”

“Lusts grow licentious and unruly; and because they usurp God's place in the heart, therefore God suffers it; always it ends ill, in shame and judgment.”

“Christ hath fiery eyes that will pierce through and through thee, will see a great deal of difference between the sin of one, and the sin of the others.”

“And so the Scripture holds forth this idea - that some men the Lord has taken advantage against for some smaller sin, and other men the Lord has spared when they have been guilty of some greater sin.”

“But as yet, the wrath of God has not yet come; none in this world does know, or can know—the power of God's anger.”

“I say this text of Scripture in Numbers clearly holds forth that the Lord brings the plague upon men for this sin of murmuring; he does it in kingdoms and families, and on particular persons.”

“Your meat will then be turned into your bowels, and will be as the gall of asps within you.”

“And therefore such a real conviction shall be brought against thee at latter day (if thou also turn not) with greater evidence than the multitudes of sermons thou hast heard.”

“Under the weight of 'rejected blood' the unbelieving sinner perishes.”

“They never inquire what state they shall enter upon after death, whether upon a state of eternal woe or a state of everlasting bliss!”

“He lets wicked men go on a great while and does not come to judgment for sin, but stays until all come together, until a great sum of wrath and judgment come together.”

“Is there not a time coming when the godly may ask the wicked what profit they have in their pleasure? what comfort in their greatness? and what fruits in all their labour?”

“Christ has fiery eyes that will pierce through and through you.”

“Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient." These are such as do not yield obedience unto the law of God—but live in and allow themselves the practice of known sins, and the neglect of known duties.”

“If men in old time were damned because they glorified him not as God, shall not they be more than damned, if more than damned can be, who glorify him not for his grace?”

“But the sin of him therein is proper to himself, and he shall answer for it all at the last day; when the angels shall be judged, he must bear the load of it.”

“Take a stack of straw, great for bulk and number, and lay it upon a few coals of fire upon an hearth, and what will become of them all?”

“Be assured, the more we are ashamed of sin now, the less we shall be ashamed at Christ's coming.”