ON THE SINNER AT THE LAST DAY OF JUDGMENT.
THIRTY-FOURTH SERMON.
ON THE SUMMONING OF THE DEAD TO JUDGMENT.
Subject.
All men without exception shall be summoned before the judgment-seat of God. Oh, what a wonderful change shall then take place in many minds!—Preached on the third Sunday after Epiphany.
Text.
Dico autem vobis, quod multi ab Oriente et Occidente venient.—Matt. viii. 11.
“And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west.”
Introduction.
They will come from the east and the west, but what a vast difference there shall be between them! Of some the Gospel says that they “shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,” while others, amongst whom there will be many for whom the kingdom of heaven was prepared, “shall be cast into the exterior darkness.” When shall this coming, this crisis take place? On the last day, when Jesus Christ shall summon all mankind from the four quarters of the globe before His tribunal, to judge every one according to his works. My dear brethren, we have already considered the Judge as God, as Man, as our Saviour, and as our Model. But in a judgment there are many persons besides the judge: there is the accused, who is cited before the tribunal; there is the chief
