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(illegible text)ted of men—who, amid insult and cruelty, ⟨expired⟩ upon the cross on mount Calvary—He ⟨shall⟩ 'come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, and shall sit on the throne of his glory:'
'God hath given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of man,' John ⟨v.⟩ 27. Sinners may despise him on the cross; but ⟨they⟩ shall not despise him on the throne; for, '[[Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen,' Rev. i. 7. Before ⟨this⟩ Judge shall be gathered all nations—all the ⟨generations⟩ of men that shall have lived on the ⟨earth⟩, from the beginning to the end of time!—⟨You⟩ need not try to form an idea of this assembly: ⟨your⟩ mind cannot contain it. I wish you rather ⟨to⟩ keep your thoughts at home—to pause, and ⟨reflect⟩, that you yourself shall be one of the ⟨multitude⟩: and when the Divine Judge, 'whose eyes were as a flame of fire, shall, with one ⟨penetrating⟩ glance, discern the characters of these ⟨countless⟩ myriads, and 'shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats, placing the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left;'—you must either, ⟨with⟩ heavenly joy, take your station on the right, ⟨or⟩, with trembling and reluctant despair, join, ⟨the⟩ company on the left. Ask yourself,—'If I ⟨were⟩ to die now, to which of these classes should ⟨I⟩ belong at the judgment?'—The future part of ⟨this⟩ paper may, perhaps, help you to determine ⟨the⟩ question. Meantime, it is one of unutterable ⟨moment⟩; for the sentence of the one shall be an ⟨eternal⟩ blessing, the doom of the other, an ⟨eternal⟩ curse. Those on the left shall go away into
