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fident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

GAL. 6: 9. Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men; especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

1 JOHN 3: 1. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God! Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

REV. 14: 1. And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women: for they are virgins: these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth: these were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb: and in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. - 12. Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.

20: 4. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the

word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death bath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

T21: 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven

and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.-6. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

ROM. 8: 17. If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.

MAT. 25: S4. Then shall the King say to them on the right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.-40. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

LUKE 22: 29. I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom.

COL. 1:12. The Father hath made

us meet to be partakers of the in- § 6. EMPLOYED IN THE SERVICE heritance of the saints in light.

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JER. 6: 16. Walk in the good way, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

MAT. 11:28. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

HEB. 4: 9. There remaineth a rest for the people of God.

REV. 14: 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; Yea, saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.

ISA. 33: 24. The inhabitants shall not say, I am sick.

§ 5. THEY ARE FREE FROM SIN AND

SUFFERING.

REV. 3: 4. They shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

JUDE 24. He is able to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy.

REV. 21: 4. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

22: 3. There shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it.

ROM. 6: 22. Being made free from sin, and become the servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holi

ness.

Ps. 17: 15. As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness.

OF GOD.

REV. 5: 11. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne... and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands: saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing.

7: 12. Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and honor and power and might be unto our God forever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders said unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence come they?

These are they that come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, or any heat. For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their

eyes.

22: 3. The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.

§ 7. AN EVERLASTING PORTION.

2 PETER 1: 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope;... to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven.

2 TIM. 4: 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing.

2 PETER 1: 11. An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Ps. 16: 11. In thy presence is

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fulness of joy, and at thy right hand! are pleasures forevermore.

REV. 22: 5. The Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and ever.

1 THESS. 4: 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; so shall we be ever with the Lord.

MAT. 6: 20. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt; nor thieves break through and steal. 25: 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal.

GAL. 6: 8. He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Roм. 2 7. To them, who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and immortality, eternal life.

6: 22. Being made free from sin, and become the servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

CHAPTER IV.

PORTION OF THE IMPENITENT AND

UNBELIEVING.

"What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel?" 1 Pet. 4: 17.

§ 1. DISQUIETUDE IN LIFE.

ISA. 48: 22. There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

57: 20. The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

JOB 15 20. The wicked man travaileth in pain all his days, and the number of his years is hidden to the oppressor. A dreadful sound is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness. . . . Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

20: 12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; though he spare it and forsake it not, but keep it still within his mouth; yet his meat in his bowels is turned; it is the gaul of asps within him.

(See Desert of Sin, p. 112.)

§ 2. COMFORTLESS DEATH.

JOB 18 5. The light of the wicked shall be put out.-17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth.-20. They that come after him shall be astonished at his day; as they that went before were affrighted.

20 5. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, yet he shall perish forever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

27: 20. Terrors take hold upon him as waters: a tempest stealeth him away in the night. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth, and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

36: 6. God preserveth not the life of the wicked.

Ps. 37: 39. The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

PROV. 11 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation perisheth. 12 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not.

14: 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.

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labor which I had taken under the sun; because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

5: 15. As he came, naked shall he return, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand. In all points as he came so shall he go.

9: 5. The memory of them is forgotten. Also their love and their hatred and their envy is now perished; and they have no more a portion in any thing that is done under the sun.

1 TIM. 6: 7. We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

Ps. 49: 17. When he dieth he shall carry nothing with him. His glory shall not descend after him.

ECCL. 4: 7. Then I returned and I saw vanity under the sun; there is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and a sore travail.

LUKE 6: 24. Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger.

JAMES 5: 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wan ton. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

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MAT. 5: 20. Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

7: 21. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.... Many will say unto me at that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me ye that work iniquity. - 26. Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house

upon the sand. And the rain de-
scended, and the floods came, and the
winds blew, and beat upon that
house, and it fell, and great was the
fall of it. 19. Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down and cast into the fire.
13. Broad is the way that leadeth
to destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat.

8: 11. Many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

11: 22. It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon and the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee, [Bethsaida, Chorazin, and Capernaum.]

10: 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

LUKE 9: 23. And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. (For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?) whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

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¶ MARK 8: 36. (For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

JOHN 8: 21. I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins, whither I go ye cannot come.

GAL. 5: 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, en

vyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

EPH. 5: 3. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, (as becometh saints,) neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

REV. 21: 26. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

22: 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

§ 5. HELL.

MAT. 10: 23. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

13: 30. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. - 37. Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them; He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked One; the enemy that sowed them is the

are

Devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.-47. Again: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

18: 6. But, whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore, if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee; it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell-fire.

22: 11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw i there a man which had not on a wedding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither, not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called, but few are chosen.

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