Application. Consider frequently, especially in your troubles and temptations, that we 'are pilgrims and strangers on the earth,' and that our true country is Heaven, whither Christ has gone to prepare a place for you also. 'Be therefore not wearied, fainting in your minds,' but 'look on Jesus, who endured the cross, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God' (Hebr. xi. 13, and xii. 2, 3).
The Seventh Article.
'From thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.'
1. What does the Seventh Article of the Creed teach us?
That Jesus Christ at the end of the world shall come again with great power and glory to judge all men, both the good and the wicked (Acts i. 11).
2. What do you call this judgment?
The general judgment, the last judgment, or the judgment of the world.
3. When will the day of the judgment of the world come?
'Of that day and hour no one knoweth, no, not the Angels of Heaven' (Matt. xxiv. 36).
Nevertheless, Christ and His Apostles have foretold us many things which shall come to pass on the earth before the end of the world (Matt, xxiv., Mark xiii,, and 2 Thess. ii.), that the faithful may be on their guard, and not be seduced to fall away. 'For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect' (Mark xiii. 22).
4. How shall we be judged?
We shall be judged according to all our thoughts, words, works, and omissions.
'I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment' (Matt. xii. 36).
5. How will the last judgment be held?
