riches. And I said, then have I in vain justified my heart,
and washed my hands among the innocent, and I have
been scourged all the day, and my chastisement hath
been in the morning."* Then also shall the glory and
triumph of Christ be made manifest. Then," says
S. Augustine, "He shall manifestly come among the
Just to judge justly, Who had secretly come to be judged
by the unjust unjustly."

He 9, 27

Ecl 11,9

Jn 5,29

Mt 16, 27

Is 34,4

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1. THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAST JUDGMENT.
It is appointed unto men nor hidden, that shall not be
once to die, and after this known.
the Judgment.

As he treated of justice Ac 24, 25 Walk in the ways of thy and chastity and of the heart, and in the sight of Judgment to come, Felix thy eyes and know that for [was] terrified. all these God will bring thee to judgment.

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According to thy hardness Ro 2, 5-8 and impenitent heart, thou And they that have treasurest up to thyself done good things, shall come wrath, against the Day of forth unto the Resurrec- Wrath, and revelation of the tion of Life; but they that just judgment of God,-Who have done evil, unto the Re- will render to every man surrection of Judgment. according to his works :

The Son of man shall come To them indeed, who,
in the glory of His Father according to patience in
with His Angels: and then good work, seek glory and
will He render to every man honour and incorruption,
according to his works. Eternal Life :-But to them
All the hosts of the hea-that are contentious, and
vens shall pine away, and who obey not the truth, but
the heavens shall be folded give credit to iniquity, wrath
together as a book: and all and indignation.

their host shall fall down It is a fearful thing to fall He 10, 31
as the leaf falleth from the into the hands of the Living
vine and from the fig-tree. God.

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1 Ti 5, 24- Some men's sins are mani- If God spared not the 2 Pt2, 4, fest, going before to judg-angels that sinned: but dement and some men they livered them, drawn down by follow after.-In like man-infernal ropes to the lower ner also good deeds are hell, unto torments, to be manifest and they that are reserved unto Judgment :otherwise, cannot be hid. The Lord knoweth how to There is nothing covered deliver the godly from tempthat shall not be revealed:tation, but to reserve the *Ps. 72, 12-14 t De Civit Dei, 1. 20, c. 27.

Lu 12, 2

Ecl 3, 17

unjust unto the Day of Judg-thou shalt be condemned. ment to be tormented. The nations were angry: Ap 11, 18 J21,30 The wicked man is re- and Thy wrath is come, and served to the Day of Destruc- the time of the dead, that tion, and He shall be brought they should be judged, and to the Day of Wrath. that Thou shouldst render God shall judge both the reward to Thy servants the just and the wicked, and Prophets and to the Saints, then shall be the time of and to them that fear Thy everything. Name, little and great, and Behold He cometh with shouldst destroy them who the clouds, and every eye have corrupted the earth. shall see Him, and they also The doctrine of Eternal that pierced Him. Judgment. Every man's work shall be If we sin wilfully after He 10,26manifest, for the Day of the having received the knowLord shall declare it. ledge of the truth, there is

Ap 1,7

1 C3, 13

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Mt 12, 36- Every idle word that a now left no Sacrifice for sins. man shall speak, they shall-But a certain dreadful exrender an account for it in pectation of judgment, and the Day of Judgment.-For the rage of a fire which by thy words thou shalt be shall consume the adverjustified, and by thy words saries.

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2.

-THE LAST JUDGMENT AS DESCRIBED BY OUR
LORD, THE JUDGE. HIS SENTENCES.
world.-For

*

1. I was hungry, and
you gave Me to eat:
2. I was thirsty, and
you gave Me to
drink:

3. I was a stranger, and
you took Me in:
Naked, and you cov-
ered Me :

4.

5.

Sick, and you visited

Me:

Mt 25, 31- When the Son of man
shall come in His Majesty,
and all the Angels with
Him, then shall He sit
upon the Seat of His
Majesty :-And all nations
shall be gathered together
before Him, and He shall
separate them one from
another, as the shepherd
separateth the sheep from
the goats-And He shall
set the sheep on His right
hand, but the goats on His Then shall the just answer
Him, saying: Lord, when
did we see Thee hungry, and
Mt 25, 34- Then shall the King say fed Thee; thirsty, and gave
to them that shall be on His Thee drink ?-And when did
right hand: Come, ye blessed we see Thee a stranger, and
of My Father, possess you the took Thee in? or naked, and
Kingdom prepared for you covered Thee? Or when
from the foundation of the did we see Thee sick or

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left.

*

6. I was in prison, and
you came to Me.

He 6, 2

27

not give her light,
3. And the stars shall
fall from heaven,
4. And the powers of
the heavens shall

be moved.
5. And then shall appear
the Sign of the Son
of man in Heaven :
6. And then shall all
the tribes of the
earth mourn :
7. And they shall see
the Son of man
coming in the clouds
of Heaven with
much power
and
majesty.

2. I was thirsty, and And He shall send His
you gave Me not to Angels with a Trumpet, and
a Great Voice; and they shall

drink :
3. I was a stranger, and gather together His elect
you took Me not from the four winds, from
the farthest parts of the hea-
cov-vens to the utmost bounds
of them.-Heaven and earth

in :

4. Naked, and you

ered Me not :

5. Sick and in prison, shall pass away, but My
and you did not words shall not pass away.

visit Me.

Again.

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Then they also shall answer In the time of the harvest Mt 13,30,
Him, saying: Lord, when I will say to the reapers:
did we see Thee hungry or Gather up first the cockle,
thirsty, or a stranger, or and bind it into bundles to
naked, or sick, or in prison, burn, but the wheat gather
and did not minister to ye into My Barn.--Even as
Thee? Then He shall an- cockle therefore is gathered
swer them, saying: Amen up and burnt with fire: so
say to you, as long as you shall it be at the end of the
did it not to one of these world.-The Son of man
least, neither did you do it shall send His Angels, and
to Me. And these shall go they shall gather out of His
into everlasting punishment: Kingdom all scandals, and
but the just into Life Ever- them that work iniquity.-
lasting.

Again. Mt 24, 29- Immediately after tribulation of those days 1. The sun shall darkened,

31, 35

And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there the shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.-Then shall the be just shall shine as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father.

2. And the moon shall He that hath ears to hear,

2 Pt 3, 7

2 Pt 3, 10

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let him hear.

and the works which are in
it shall be burnt up.

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ST. PETER'S ACCOUNT. The heavens and the earth, Seeing then that all these 2 Pt 3,11which are now, by the same things are to be dissolved, Word are kept in store, re- what manner of people ought served unto fire against the you to be in holy conversaDay of Judgment and per- tions and godliness :-Lookdition of the ungodly men. ing for and hasting unto the

But the Day of the Lord coming of the Day of the shall come as a thief, in Lord, by which the heavens which the heavens shall pass being on fire shall be away with great violence, and dissolved, and the elements the elements shall be melted shall melt with the heat of with heat, and the earth fire?

3.—THE JUDGMENT SEAT; THE GREAT WHITE THRONE. Mt 25, 31- When the Son of man great and small, standing in shall come in His Majesty, the Presence of the Throne, and all the Angels with Him, and the Books were opened: then shall He sit on the seat and another Book was opened, of His Majesty; - And all which is the Book of Life: nations shall be gathered and the dead were judged by together before Him, and those things which were He shall separate them one written in the Books, accordfrom another, as the shep-ing to their works. And the herd separates the sheep sea gave up the dead, that from the goats. were in it, and Death and Da 7, 9-10 I beheld till Thrones were Hell gave up their dead, that placed, and the Ancient of were in them: and they were Days sat: His garment was judged every one according white as snow, and the hair to their works.

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of His head like clean wool: We must all appear before 2 C5, 10
His Throne like flames of the Judgment Seat of Christ,
fire the wheels of it like a that every one may receive
burning fire.-A swift stream the proper things of the body
of fire issued forth from according as he hath done,
before Him thousands of whether it be good or evil.
thousands ministered to Him, The kings of the earth, Ap 6, 15-
and ten thousand times a and the Princes, and the
hundred thousand stood Tribunes, and the rich, and
before Him the Judgment the strong, and every bond-
sat and the Books were man, and every freeman hid
opened.
themselves in the dens, and
White in the rocks of the moun-
Throne, and One sitting upon tains :-And they say to the
it, from Whose Face the earth mountains and the rocks:
and heaven fled away, and Fall upon us, and hide us
there was no place found for from the Face of Him that
them. And I saw the dead, sitteth upon the Throne, and

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Ap 20, 11- I saw a great

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Lu 21, 36

from the wrath of the Lamb: ing at all times, that you may
-For the Great Day of their be accounted worthy to
wrath is come and who escape all these things that
shall be able to stand?
are to come, and to stand
Watch ye, therefore, pray- before the Son of man.

4.-CHRIST OUR JUDGE; ALL POWER GIVEN HIM
TO DO JUDGMENT.

Jn 5, 22- The Father hath given all equity, He shall judge the
23, 27 Judgment to the Son,-That people in justice.

Jn 12, 48

Ac 10, 42

1 C4, 5

Ju 14-15

Mt 16,27

1 K2, 3, 10

Ps 9, 8-9

all men may honour the Son He cometh to judge the Ps 95, 13
as they honour the Father.-earth. He shall judge the
He hath given Him power to world with justice and the
do judgment because He is people with His truth.
the Son of man.

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Thou, why judgest thou Ro 14,10He that despiseth Me, and thy brother: or thou, why receiveth not My words, hath dost thou despise thy One that judgeth him; the brother? For we shall all Word that I have spoken, stand before the Judgment the Same shall judge him in Seat of Christ.-For it is the Last Day. written: As I live, saith the It is He Who was appointed Lord, every knee shall bow by God, to be Judge of the to Me, and every tongue living and of the dead. shall confess to God.Judge not before the Therefore every one of us time; until the Lord come, shall render account to God Who both will bring to light for himself. the hidden things of dark- I charge thee before God 2 Ti 4, 1ness, and will make manifest and Jesus Christ, Who shall the counsels of the hearts; judge the living and the and then shall every man dead by His Coming and have praise from God. His Kingdom :-Preach the

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Behold, the Lord cometh Word. with thousands of His saints, There is laid up for me 2 Ti 4, 8 -To execute Judgment upon a crown of justice, which the all. Lord the Just Judge will The Son of man shall come render to me in that day :in the Glory of His Father And not only to me, but to with His Angels, and then them also that love His will He render to every man Coming. according to his works.

[You] shall render account 1 Pt 4, 5 The Lord is a God of all to Him Who is ready to knowledge, and to Him are judge the living and the thoughts prepared. The dead.

Lord shall judge the ends of He shall not judge accord- Is 11, 3-4
the earth.
ing to the sight of the eyes,
He hath prepared His nor reprove according to the
Throne in judgment :-And hearing to the ears:-But He
He shall judge the world in shall judge the poor with