Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-03
From the Great Teacher.
THE GENERAL JUDGMEN'

When speaking of the final Judgment,
it is observable that he seldom omitted to
insist and enlarge on it's pwblicity He
thus reminds US, that the the end for which
there is anvjudgment at all, is best secur-
ed by having it held inthe presence of all
worlds; that piety may be most honored.
sin most abashed, and the government of
God vindicated and glorifed, On the larg-
est possible scale. In a few descriptive
words, he fills the horizon with intelligent
beings of all orders and characters. 1t
will not be the judgment Of a single indi-
vidual, nor Of nation, but Of a whole
world of intelligent and accountable be-
ings. 1t will not be an assize Of sins of
recent commission merel y, sins committed
thousands of years before will be repro
duced and examined with all their circum-
stances Of aggravation, as if they had been
only just committed What a profound
impression will that produce of the holy
character Of God, and Of the infinite enor-
nifty Of sin! When his people are crown
ed, he would not have one of their enc
mics absent; and W hen the ungodly are
doomed he would not have one of the
righteous absent he would have them
now to forestall that day, to feel by anti
cipation, that they are speaking with the
universe for their audience and acting in
the great theatre of the judgment; and,
then he would have them to depart to their
respective allotments bearing away with
them impressions of the hatefulness of SIM
and the beauty of holiness, which shall
remain unefaced through all the scenes
of eternity.
And, oh! what an enhancement ofthei1
doom, will this single circumstance con-
tain! If a person be conscious that he is
chargeable with ingratitude, and with in
gratitude beyond forgiveness he would
rather confront his greatest foe than the
person he has thus injured. Were any
other being than Christ TO ascend the
throne Of Judgment, or were he any other
than he is, the confusion Of the impenitent
sinner at appearing in hispressence would
: be less intolerable But when he shall
draw near, and be compelled to look on
that in ured goodness his confusion will
be complete When he shall behold him
invested in the robe of humanity, that sin
, gle SlgQt Will EdSu OH 11tIIA LA0 ASSOJ1CC.
ton of all that Jesus did i'll that nature to
redeem him-the incarnation, the bloody
sweat, the cross, the pierced side-all will
rise to view, and penetrate him with an
egonizing sense Of his ingratitude and
guilt When he shall hear the voice of
that injured Being, the voice which he
had heard SO often in the gospel, inviting,
entreating, beseeching Him in every tone
Of gracious solicitude, it will vibrate on
his ear more dreadfully than the sound Of
the archangel's trump which called him
from the grave. When the impenItent
are represented as calling on the noun.
tains and rocks to fall on them what is
that which they seek to avoid? they ask
to be hidden from the face Of Him that
stitch upon the throne, and from the
wrath Of the Lamb-the t01atb of the
Lamb Had it been the fury of the lion;
had it been the wrath Of being who had
onlv created them, given them law, and
left them to obey it or perish; who had
only been known to them as being of
rigorous and unbending justice; then.
however conscious of guilt, they might
have attempted to lift up their hardened
front IN his presence. But it is the
wrath of the Lamb: of a Being who has
always acted towards them with infinite
tenderness and patience; who became The
Lamb Of God, the great sacrifcial victim,