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 STUDY VIII. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

THE GENERAL VIEW p THE DAY OP JUDGMENT. Is IT SCRIPTURAL? Tag TERMS, JUDGMENT AND DAY, DEFINED. SEVERAL JUDGMENT DAYS REFERRED TO IN THE SCRIPTURES. THE FIRST JUDGMENT DAY AND ITS RESULTS. AN- OTHER APPOINTED. THE JUDGE. THE CHARACTER OF THE COMING JUDG- MENT. SIMILARITY AND DISSIMILARITY OF THE FIRST AND SECOND JUDG- MENTS. THE WORLD'S PRESENT ACCOUNTABILITY.--TWO INTERVENING JUDG- MENTS ANSI THEIR OBJECTS. WIDELY DIFFERENT ESTIMATES p THE COMING

JUDGMBWT. HOW PROPHETS AMD ATOSTZ.CS VlEWED ST.

<4 pOD hath appointed a day in the which he will judge ^ the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained " "Jesus Christ, the righteous. 1 ' "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." A6ts 17:31; i John 2:1; John 5 : 22.

A verj r vague and indefinite idea prevails in regard to the day of judgment. The view generally entertained is that Christ will come to earth, seated upon a great white throne, and that he will summon saint and sinner in rank and file before him to be judged, amidst great convulsions of nature earthquakes, opening graves, rending rocks and falling mountains } that the trembling sinners will be brought from the depths of everlasting woe to hear their sins rehearsed, only to be again returned to an eternal and merciless doom ; and that the saints will be brought from heaven to witness the misery and despair of the condemned, to hear again the de- cision in their own cases, and to return. According to the prevailing theory, all receive their sentence and reward at death ; and this, which by way of distinction is commonly palled the general judgment, is merely a repetition of that

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