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And will he come? tremble then ye sinners, triumph y• Saints, clap your hands all ye that look for the consolation of Israel. O sinners, where will you then appear? how will you look upon him whom you have pierced; whom you have persecuted? whose great Salvation you have neglected and despised? Woe unto you that ever you were born, unless you should then be found to be New-born.

And will he come? tremble then ye sinners, triumph y• Saints, clap your hands all ye that look for the consolation of Israel. O sinners, where will you then appear? how will you look upon him whom you have pierced; whom you have persecuted? whose great Salvation you have neglected and despised? Wo unto you that ever you were born, unless you should then be found to be New-born.

But you, O Children of the most high, how will you forget your travel, and be melted into joy. This is he in whom you have believed; whom having not seen ye loved. But how will love and joy be working (if I may so speak) with pangs unutterable, when you shall see him, and hear his sweet voice commending, applauding, approving of you, and owning you by name before all the World. Brethren, thus it must be, the Lord hath spoken it. See that you stagger not at the Promise, but give Glory to God by believing.

Again, the time is near, Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come. Behold, I come quickly, saith he: And again, The Lord is at hand: Sure you are, that death cannot be far off. O Christian, thou dost not know but the next year, nay, possibly the next week, thou mayest be in Heaven. Christ will not long endure thine absence, but will have thee up to him till the time of his general appearing; when he will take us up altogether, and so we shall be ever with the Lord.