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 ANY will say
to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful
works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart
from me, ye that work iniquity. Mt 7:22 From these words it is
evident that some false professors will expect to be accepted of
Christ at the judgment, an expectation totally inconsistent with the
opinion of their conscious misery in the intermediate state.
Judgment is to precede their punishment. This judgment will be at
the last day. See Joh 12:48 Ac 17:31 15. The dead are blessed,
not because they “immediately pass into glory,” but because “they
rest from their labors,”&c.
Re 14:13. “And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, blessed
are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: Yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do
follow them.” Job 3:17,18. “There the wicked cease from
troubling, and there the weary are at rest.” “There the prisoners
rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.”
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