An Awful Premonition

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Matthew 16:27-28

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.…

Compared with the doom which will be inflicted upon the ungodly at the coming of Christ, the death of nature is nothing.

I. THE SINNER'S DEATH IS BUT A FAINT PRESAGE OF THE SINNER'S DOOM AT THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN IN HIS GLORY.

1. We can make but little comparison between the two in the point of time. Physical dying is but the work of a moment; the doom of the wicked when Christ comes will never die.

2. In point of loss there is no comparison.

3. Neither does death hear any comparison with the last judgment in point of terror.

4. The pains of death are not comparable to the pains of the judgment at the second advent.

II. IN THE STATE OF SEPARATE SPIRITS THEY HAVE NOT FULLY TASTED OF DEATH, NOR WILL THEY DO SO UNTIL CHRIST COMES. Till after the second advent their bodies do not suffer; they know that this present state will end, after judgment no end; they have not been put to the shame of a public sentence.

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