But especially he loveth and longeth for the coming of Christ to judgement: as knowing that then the Marriage-day of the Lamb is come, and then the desires and hopes of all Believers shall be satisfied: Then shall the Righteous shine as Stars in the Kingdom of their Father; and the hand of violence shall not reach them. Every enemy then is overcome, and all the Redeemers work is consummated, and the Kingdom delivered up unto the Father. Then shall the ungodly and the unmerciful be confounded, and the righteous filled with everlasting joy, when their Lord shall throughly plead their cause, and justify them against the accusations of Satan, and all the lies of his malicious instruments. O blessed, glorious, joyful day, when Christ shall come with thousands of his Angels, to execute vengeance on the ungodly world, and to be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that now believe, 2 Thes. 1.8, 9, 10 When the patient followers of the Lamb shall behold him in glory whom they have believed in, and shall see that they did not pray, or hope, or wait in vain! When Christ himself and his sacred truth, shall be justified and glorified in the presence of the world, and his enemies mouths for ever stopped: When he shall convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him, Jude 14, 15. Where then is the mouth that pleadeth the cause of infidelity and impiety? and reproached the serious holiness of Believers? and made a jest of the Judgements of the Lord? Then what terrors, and confusion, ⟨p. 167⟩and shame, what fruitless repentings will seize upon that man, that set himself against the holy ones of the Lord, and knew not the day of his visitation, and embraced the image and form of godliness, while he abhorred the power. The Joys which will then possess the hearts of the Justified, will be such as now no heart can comprehend. When Love shall come to be glorified in the highest expression, to those that lately were so low; when all their doubts, and fears, and sorrows, shall be turned into full contenting sight, and all tears shall be wiped away, and all reproaches turned into glory, and every enemy overcome, and sin destroyed, and holiness perfected, and our vile bodies changed, and made like the glorious body of Christ, Phil. 3.20, 21. Col. 3.3, 4.
But especially he loveth and longeth for the coming of Christ to judgement: as knowing that then the Marriage-day of the Lamb is come, and then the desires and hopes of all Believers shall be satisfied: Then shall the Righteous shine as Stars in the Kingdom of their Father; and the hand of violence shall not reach them. Every enemy then is overcome, and all the Redeemers work is consummated, and the Kingdom delivered up unto the Father. Then shall the ungodly and the unmercifull be confounded, and the righteous filled with overlasting joy, when their Lord shall throughly plead their cause, and justifie them against the accusations of Satan, and all the lies of his malicious instruments. O blessed, glorious, joyfull day, when Christ shall come with thousands of his Angels, to execute vengeance on the ungodly world, and to be glorified in his Saints, and admired in all them that now believe, 2 Thes. 1.8, 9, 10 When the patient followers of the Lamb shall behold him in glory whom they have believed in, and shall see that they did not pray, or hope, or wait in vain! When Christ himself and his sacred truth, shall be justified and glorified in the presence of the world, and his enemies mouths for ever stopped: When he shall convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him, Jude 14, 15. Where then is the mouth that pleadeth the cause of infidelity and impiety? and reproached the serious holiness of Believers? and made a jest of the Judgements of the Lord? Then what terrours, and confusion, ⟨p. 167⟩and shame, what fruitless repentings will seize upon that man, that set himself against the holy ones of the Lord, and knew not the day of his visitation, and imbraced the image and form of godliness, while he abhorred the power. The Joys which will then possess the hearts of the Justified, will be such as now no heart can comprehend. When Love shall come to be glorified in the highest expression, to those that lately were so low; when all their doubts, and fears, and sorrows, shall be turned into full contenting sight, and all tears shall be wiped away, and all reproaches turned into glory, and every enemy overcome, and sin destroyed, and holiness perfected, and our vile bodies changed, and made like the glorious body of Christ, Phil. 3.20, 21. Col. 3.3, 4.
