e sins
against the light of thy conscience, and there the sins against the law,
and there the sins against the gospel, and all shall be presented to thy
conscience. O! well is the soul and conscience that dare lift up the head
with rejoicing, and can say, "Thou Lamb of God, thou takest away the sins
of the world," thou tookest away my sins when thou wast on the tree. And
can any body tell how ye will compear before this throne that were never
cleansed with the blood of Jesus? O! that blackness and darkness, which is
abiding that soul which never yet ran to the blood of the Lamb, to make
itself white in it; so the raising of all, the compearing of all, the
accusation of all, the conviction of all, shall be just, and God shall be
glorified in all.

There is also the absolution of the righteous, and the condemnation of the
wicked; and therefore the throne is called white, because of the innocency
and righteousness of the Judge. Now, brethren, I will go no further at
this time than this that follows or remains to be spoken of, the majesty
and terror of the Judge sitting on his throne, "and him that sat on it."
Many shall sit on thrones in that day, but one shall sit above all the
rest, for the saints shall be caught up in the air, and shall all sit on
thrones, and give out sentence both of absolution and condemnation, and
they shall say, "Hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and power, be to the
Lord our God, for true and righteous are his judgments." I could never yet
rightly consider the majesty of this Judge. O heavens! what aileth thee to
flee from the face of this Judge. O earth! what aileth thee to flee, and
why art thou chased away, and never seen again? What ails thee, O heavens,
that never sinned, and, O earth, that never sinned neither, for they had
never understanding to be capable of a law, nor to be subject to keep a
law. What means this? O but I must leave this! for who can but wonder at
this! Yet I will tell you the cause. You and I, and the generations before
that this firmament has seen, and this earth seen or born, since the first
day that God made the earth, and established this heaven and earth, and
since that day that Adam eat of the forbidden tree, since that day heaven
and earth have been eye-witnesses of our sins, and subject to vanity, and
since that day they have been defiled with our iniquities, and since that
time they have been subject to bondage and corruption, and therefore they
groan with us also