with Him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from Whose Face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of Life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell (Hades) delivered up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell (Hades) were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And

whosoever was not found written in the book

of Life was cast into the lake of fire."

66 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; Rev. xxi. 1. for the first heaven and the first earth were

passed away and there was no more sea."

"There shall be no more death, neither Rev. xxi. 4. sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any

more pain; for the former things are passed away."

"The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abomin- Rev. xxi. 8. able, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death."

"In the midst of the street of it, and on Rev. xxii. 2. either side of the river was there the Tree of

Life."

"Blessed are they that do His command- Rev. xxii. 14, 15. ments, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the city; for without are dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

The Book of Common Prayer.

The Prayer Book says little directly of the doom of the wicked, and then almost always in the words of Scripture. Eternal life is, throughout, looked upon as a gift, and not as inherent in man. Of course, whenever the reward of the just is spoken of, it is implied that the wicked are not similarly rewarded. Here are the few references to the finally impenitent. The Nicene Creed: "The Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life." Quicunque vult: "They that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil into everlasting fire." The Litany: "Neither take Thou vengeance of our sins . . . and be not angry with us for ever. From Thy wrath and from everlasting damnation, Good Lord deliver us." Collect for Quinquagesima: "Pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before Thee." Collect for the Sunday next before Easter: "That we may both follow the example of His patience, and also be made partakers of His resurrection." The Exhortation in the office of Holy Communion: "Lest after the taking of that Holy Sacrament, the devil enter into you, as he entered into Judas, and fill you full of all iniquities, and bring you to destruction both of body and soul."

The Book of Common Prayer. 159

The second Exhortation: "We kindle God's wrath against us; we provoke Him to plague us with divers diseases, and sundry kinds of death." The proper Preface upon Easter-day: "Who by His death hath destroyed death, and by His rising again hath restored to us everlasting life." The office of the Private Baptism of Infants: "This child, who being born in original sin, and in the wrath of God, is now, by the laver of Regeneration in Baptism, received into the number of the children of God, and heirs of everlasting life." The Catechism: "That He will keep us from all sin and wickedness, and from our ghostly enemy, and from everlasting death." The Visitation of the Sick: "That, accusing and condemning yourself for your own faults, you may find mercy at our heavenly Father's Hand for Christ's sake, and not be accused and condemned in that fearful judgment."

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