her), and is
sharper than any two-edged sword.
"How shall I describe to thee the evils of this life? I will tell
them, and they shall be more in number than the sand. For such life is
the fishhook of the devil, baited with beastly pleasure, whereby he
deceiveth and draggeth his prey into the depth of hell. Whereas the
good things, promised by my Master, which thou callest 'the hope of
some other uncertain life,' are true and unchangeable; they know no
end, and are not subject to decay. There is no language that can
declare the greatness of yonder glory and delight, of the joy
unspeakable, and the everlasting gladness. As thou thyself seest, we
all die; and there is no man that shall live and not see death. But
one day we shall all rise again, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall come,
the Son of God, in unspeakable glory and dread power, the only King of
kings, and Lord of lords; to whom every knee shall bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. Such terror
shall he then inspire that the very powers of heaven shall be shaken:
and before him there shall stand in fear thousand thousands, and ten
thousand times ten thousand of Angels and Archangels, and the whole
world shall be full of fear and terror. For one of the Archangels
shall sound with the trump of God, and immediately the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll; and the earth shall be rent, and shall
give up the dead bodies of all men that ever were since the first man
Adam until that day. And then shall all men that have died since the
beginning of the world in the twinkling of an eye stand alive before
the judgement seat of the immortal Lord, and every man shall give
account of his deeds. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun;
they that believed in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and ended this
present life in good works. And how can I describe to thee the glory
that shall receive them at that day? For though I compare their
brightness and beauty to the light of the sun or to the brightest
lightning flash, yet should I fail to do justice to their brightness.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart
of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him, in
the kingdom of heaven, in the light which no man can approach unto, in
his unspeakable and unending glory.
"Such joys and such bliss shall the righteous obtain, but they that
have denied the only true God and no
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