Excerpt from Sermons and Moral Discourses: For All the Sundays and Principal Festivals of the Year, on the Most Important Truths and Maxims of the Gospel Then they shall see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with great Power and Majesty - Luke, c. Xxi. V. 27. This being the first Sunday of Advent, the Church, in order to inspire her children with that penitential Spirit which is suitable to this holy time, displays one of the most terrifying truths of the Christian Religion, and proposes on this day to our serious consideration the tre mendons mystery of the last and general judgment, which is to decide whether we are to be the happiest or most unhappy creatures that God can make us; whether heaven, with all its infinite joys, or hell, with all its inconceivable torments, is to be our everlasting inheritance whether we are for ever to Sing joyful Alleluias with the blessed choirs of angels and saints above, or to burn eternally in flames of fire, with legions of merciless devils below. The condemnation of the rich glutton who was buried in hell at the time of his death, as the Gospel informs us, and the happy end of poor Lazarus, who was immediately translated into Abraham's bosom when he departed this life, plainly shew that the soul undergoes a particular judgment, the very instant that death separates it from the body. But besides this particular judgment, there is a'day of general judgment, appointed by God, for all mankind to appear together before the awful tribunal Of Jesus Christ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.