The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 77
7—Of the Last Judgment
7—Of the Last Judgment.
To drop the words "when the wicked shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal" is to page 35 discard what is perhaps the strongest and clearest pronouncement of Scripture on the destinies of men hereafter—a pronouncement, too, by Christ Himself, whom the Article declares to be the Supreme Judge at the last day, "before whom all men must appear, who shall separate the righteous from the wicked, make manifest the secrets of the heart, and render to every man according to the deeds he hath done in the body, whether good or evil." Some strong reason must have existed to move the compilers of the New Zealand Article to shut the mouth of Christ on this momentous theme.