Q. Who will fend them thither?

A. Chrift, Matth. xxv. 41. Then shall he say alfo unto them on the left hand, depart from me ye curfed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels.

Q. What will they fuffer?

A. The Wrath of God, 1 Theff. i. 10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raifed from the dead, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come. 2 Theff. i. 9. Who fhall be punished with everlasting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. And the Terrors of a guilty Confcience, Mark ix. 44. Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Q. Shall their Bodies too be tormented?

A. Yes, Matth. x. 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the foul; but rather fear him which is able to deftroy both foul and body in hell.

2. How long?

A. For ever, Matth. xxv. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. Dan. xii. 2. And many of them that fleep in the dust of the earth fhall awake, fome to everlafting life, and fome to fhame and everlasting contempt. Q. What must we do then?

A. Watch, Mark xiii. 37. And what I say unto you, I say unto all, watch.

Life everlasting.

Q. Who fhall always live in Heaven?

A. The Righteous, Matth. xxv. 46. And thefe Shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the

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righteous into life eternal. Matth. v. 20. For I fay unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteoufness of the fcribes and pharifees, ye shall in no cafe enter into the kingdom of heaven.

O. Who will fend them thither?

A. Chrift, Mat. xxv. 34. Then shall the king fay unto them on his right hand, come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Q. How will they live there?

A. In all Happiness of Soul and Body.
Q. How in Body?

A. Glorious, 1 Cor. xv. 42. So alfo is the refurrection of the dead. It is fown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption, &c. Phil. iii. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to fubdue all things unto himself.

Q. How in their Souls and whole Man?

A. Mat. xxii. 30. For in the refurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the Angels of God in Heaven.

1. Free from all Trouble, Revel. xxi. 4. And God fall wipe away all Tears from their eyes, and there fhall be no more death, neither forrow nor crying, neither hall there be any more pain; for the former things are paffed away.

2. Full of all Joy, Pfal. xvi. 11. Thou wilt fhew me the path of life: in thy prefence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Q. Whom will they live with?

A. 1. Angels and Saints, Alls xxvi. 18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of fins, and inheritance among them which are fanctified by faith that is in me.

2. Chrift,

2. Chrift, Job. xvii. 24. Father, I will that they alfo whom thou haft given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou haft given me: for thou lovedft me before the Foundation of the World.

3. God, 1 Cor. xiii. 12. For now we fee through a Glafs darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Joh. iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the Sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when be shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall fee him as he is.

2. What will they do?

A. Praife God, Rev. vii. 10, 12. And they cryed with a loud voice, Saying, Salvation to our God which fitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb. V. 12. Saying, Amen: Blessing, and Glory, and Wifdom, and Thanksgiving, and Honour, and Power, and Might be unto our God for ever.

2. How long?

Amen.

A. For ever, I Pet. i. 4. To an inheritance ine corruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, referved in Heaven for you.

2. What must we do for it?

A. Believe, Fob. iii. 16. For God fo loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him, fhould not perish but have everlafting life.

Amen.

What doth Amen signifie?

A. Truth, ON 7N, Ifa. lxv. 16. That be who bleffeth himself in the earth, fhall bless himself in the God of Truth, and be that fweareth in the earth, fhall fwear by the God of Truth; because the

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former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

2. When used?

A. After Prayers, Deut. xxvii. 15. Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the works of the hands of the crafifman, and putteth it in a fecret place: and all the people fall answer and fay, Amen. Neh. v. 13. Also I fbook my lap, and faid, fo God Shake out every Man from his House, and from his labour, that performeth not this promife, even thus be fhaken out, and emptied, and all the Congregation faid, Amen, and praised the Lord; And the people did according to this promife.

2. And Praifes. Neb. viii. 6. And Ezra bleffed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: And they bowed their heads, and wo shipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. Pfal. lxxxix. 52. Bleffed be the Lord for evermore, Amen, and Amen. Pfal. cvi. 48. Blessed be the Lord God of Ifrael from everlasting to everlasting, and let all the people Say Amen. Praife ye the Lord. Rev. vii. 12. Saying, Amen: Bleffing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might be unto our God for ever and ever, Amen.

2. What doth it fignifie there?

A. So be it, Jer. xxviii. 6. The Prophet Feremiah faid, Amen: The Lord do fo, the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophefied, to bring again the Veffels of the Lord's boufe, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this Place. 1 King i. 36. And Benaiab the Son of Jehoiada anfwered the King, and said, Amen: the Lord God of my Lord the King fay fo too. 1 Cor. xiv. 16. Elle when thou shalt blefs with the Spirit, how shall he

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that occupyeth the room of the unlearned Say Amen at thy giving of thanks, feeing be understandeth not what thou fayeft. J'évo7o.

2. What else doth it fignify?

A. Truly, verily, so it is, 'Any, éyw vμïv. Mat. xvi. 28. Verily I fay unto you, there be fome ftanding here, which shall not taste of Death, till they fee the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom. Axnows, Luke ix. 27. But I tell you of a truth there be Some standing bere which shall not taste of Death, till they fee the Kingdom of God. 'Aur Aun, Joh. iii. 3. Fefus answered and faid unto him, Verily, verily, I fay unto thee, except a Man be born again be cannot fee the Kingdom of God.

O'Auv, of Chrift, Apoc. iii. 14. and unto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans, write thefe things faith the Amen, the faithful and true witnefs, the beginning of the creation of God. To vai, ναὶ, to the Gentiles. To aun to the Jews, 2 Cor. i. 20. For all the promises of God in him are Tea, and in bim Amen, unto the Glory of God by us.

Where thus used?

A. At the end of the Gofpels and Creeds, as here; and in the Commination, where it is not curfedis, but curfed be, as Deuteronomy xxvii. from V. 15. to the end.

JOSH