# Of The Second Coming Of Christ, The Resurrection Of The Dead, And The Last Judgment.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND THE LAST JUDGMENT.



Finally, we believe, that the Son of the living
God, the Lord Jesus Christ, our only Prophet, Priest
and King, will visibly, as he ascended, descend from
heaven, in the clouds, and all the holy angels of
God with him, with power and great glory, with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God, which shall be heard everywhere.
Then all men who have lived upon earth, and have
died, good and evil, just and unjust, shall rise from
the dead, in incorruption, with their own body, in
which they have lived; but those who still live on
that day, and have not tasted death, shall be changed,
in the twinkling of an eye, to incorruption, at the
last sound of the last trumpet. Acts 1:11; Rev. 1:7;
2 Thess. 1:7; 1 Thess. 4:16; Matt. 24:50; Zeph.
1:16; Matt. 25:7; 2 Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:11; Jer.
5:29; Acts 24:15; 1 Cor. 15:42; Jer. 26:19; 1 Cor.
15:38,52.

Thus, the whole human family shall be placed
before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one
may receive in his body, according to that he hath
done, whether it be good or bad. For the Lord
Jesus Christ shall then, as a shepherd, separate the
sheep from the goats. Those who have done good,
he shall set on his right hand, but those that have
done evil, on the left; and he shall there pronounce
the eternal, irrevocable sentence. 2 Cor. 5:10; Matt.
25:32,33,46; Jude 14.

To the true believers, who, through faith, have
done works of love and mercy, he shall say: “Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world.”
These shall be caught up in the clouds, to meet the
Lord, who shall take them away with him into life
eternal, in the heavenly glory and splendor, where
they shall forever be with the Lord, in the innumerable
company of the holy angels, in the society of
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the pious, with great,
unspeakable joy and gladness. 2 Pet. 1:5; Matt.
25:35; Luke 16:9; 2 Pet. 1:11; 1 Thess. 4:17,14;
John 14:3; 17:24; Dan. 12:12; 1 Pet. 1:8,9.

But the unrighteous who have not known God,
nor obeyed the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and have done no works of love or mercy, shall then
be sentenced to everlasting fire, in these grievous
and intolerable words: “Depart from me, ye cursed,
into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels;” “there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.” 1 Cor. 6:9; 2 Thess. 1:8; Rom. 2:9; Matt.
25:41; 22:13.

These shall go, where their worm dieth not, and
their fire is not quenched. There will come upon
them tribulation and anguish, displeasure, wrath, and
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everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power. Is. 66:24; Mark
9:46; Mal. 4:1; Rom. 2:9; 2 Thess. 1:9; 4 Esdr.
9:10; Luke 16:24.

May the God of grace and mercy preserve us,
through Jesus Christ, his dear and beloved Son, in
the power of the Holy Spirit, from this dreadful
punishment of the ungodly, and grant us his grace,
that we may live holy here on earth, and die happy,
to a glad resurrection and joyful appearance in the
presence of his glory, Amen.

Here follow two other questions and the answers
to the same, which we could adduce, but we deem
it unnecessary, since the treatise given embraces the
substance or whole sum of the confession of saving
faith, if it is only well apprehended.

Added was also a letter, as a preparative for peace,
and signed by various persons (elders and teachers).

Given at Amsterdam, the 26th of September,
1627.





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