The speedy coming of Christ to judgment represented in a funeral sermon on the…

His first coming was in Weakness, but his second shall be in Power. Thus he told his Enemies,¹ Hereafter shall ye see the Son of Man sitting ⟨p. 16⟩on the right-hand of Power, and coming in the Clouds of Heaven. His Voice shall break the silence of the Grave, and all that are in the bowels of the Earth, or the bottom of the Sea, shall come forth; they that have done good, ²unto the Resurrection of Life; they that have done evil, to the Resurrection of Damnation. By his Omnipotence he will change our vile Bodies, ³that they may be fashioned like to his Glorious Body. As Gold at first taken out of the Mine, seems but common Earth, but by the refining Fire has a Brightness superinduced, that it seems rather the product of the Fire, than from the Vein of the Earth from ⟨p. 17⟩whence it was taken: Thus our Bodies that in their Original are but Earth; from the Earthly Adam; shall by the Power of the Lord from Heaven be made heavenly, clothed with a living Lustre and Vigour. He will then convent the God of this World, with all the invisible Legions of rebellious Spirits, and force their Submission to his High Tribunal. He will dissolve the old World, and raise the new: from his Face the Earth and the Heaven shall flee away, and there shall be no place found for them. According to his Promise we look for new Heavens, and a new Earth, wherein dwells Righteousness.

His first coming was in Weakness, but his second shall be in Power. Thus he told his Enemies,¹ Hereafter shall ye see the Son of Man sitting ⟨p. 16⟩on the right-hand of Power, and coming in the Clouds of Heaven. His Voice shall break the silence of the Grave, and all that are in the bowels of the Earth, or the bottom of the Sea, shall come forth; they that have done good,