Church History: From this parable we may learn these lessons of instruction:
1. That our Lords' state of humiliation and great abasement on earth being passed and over, a glorious state of exaltation he is now arrived at in heaven. God has exalted him with great triumph to his kingdom in heaven.
2. That, clothed with infinite majesty and power, and attended with an innumerable host of glorious angels and saints, this exalted Savior will come to judge angels and men.
3. That in the mean time Christ variously dispenses to his servants particular talents, to be employed and improved for his own glory and his church's good.
4. That there will most certainly be a reckoning-day, or a time when our Lord will take an account of men's improving those gifts and graces, which were given them as so many talents to be improved by them.
5. That there will be degrees of happiness and misery in the other world, according to men's degrees of faithfulness or negligence in this.
6. That it is abominably false and impious to charge God, as being rigid and severe with men, and requiring impossibilities at their hands: For out of their own mouths will God condemn them. The condition of God's faithful servants will be unspeakably happy, and that of the unprofitable servant intolerably miserable both in this world and in the next: the righteous shall enter into the joy of their Lord, and be confirmed therein, with an utter impossibility of losing that happiness. The wicked, who would not submit to Christ's authority, shall not be able to resist his power. They that would not suffer Christ to reign over them, shall at the last day be brought forth and slain before him.
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