Christians, what do we believe, and hope, and wait for, but to see that Day? This is Pauls encouragement to moderation, to Rejoicing in the Lord alway; The Lord is at hand, Phil. 4.4, 5. It is to all them that Love his Appearing, that the Lord, the Righteous Judg, shall give the Crown of Righteousness at that Day, 2 Tim. 4.8. Dost thou so long to have him come into thy Soul with comfort, and life, and takest thy self but for a forlorn Orphan while he seemeth absent? And dost thou not much more long for that Coming which shall perfect thy Life, and Joy, and Glory? Dost thou so rejoice after some short and slender enjoyment of him in thy heart? Oh how wilt thou then Rejoice? How full of Joy was that Blessed Martyr Mr Glover with the Discovery of Christ to his Soul, after long doubting and waiting in sorrows? so that he cries out, He is come, He is come? If thou have but a dear friend returned, that hath been far and long absent; how do all run out to meet him with Joy? Oh saith the Child,1 My Father is come! saith the Wife, My Husband is come! And shall not we, when we behold our Lord in his majesty returning, cry out, He is come, He is come? Shall the wicked, with unconceivable horror, behold him, and cry out, Oh yonder is he whose blood we neglected, whose Grace we resisted, whose counsels we refused, whose Government we cast off? And shall not then the Saints, with unconceivable gladness, cry out, Oh ⟨p. 49⟩yonder is he whose Blood redeemed us, whose Spirit cleansed us, whose Law did Govern us? Yonder comes he in whom we trusted, and now we see he hath not deceived our Trust: He for whom we long waited, and now we see we have not waited in vain. Oh cursed Corruption, that would have had us turn to the world, and present things, and give up our hopes, and say, Why should we wait for the Lord any Longer? Now we see, that Blessed are all they that wait for him. Believe it, fellow Christians, this Day is not far off. For yet a little while, and he that comes, will come, and will not tarry. And though the unbelieving world, and the unbelief of thy heart, may say, as those Atheistical Scoffers, Where is the Promise of his Coming? Do not all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation? Yet let us know, The Lord is not slack of his Promise, 2as some men count slackness: One day is with him as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Christians, what do we beleeve, and hope, and wait for, but to see that Day? This is Pauls encouragement to moderation, to Rejoycing in the Lord alway; The Lord is at hand, Phil. 4.4, 5. It is to all them that Love his Appearing, that the Lord, the Righteous Judg, shall give the Crown of Righteousness at that Day, 2 Tim. 4.8. Dost thou so long to have him come into thy Soul with comfort, and life, and takest thy self but for a forlorn Orphan while he seemeth absent? And dost thou not much more long for that Coming which shall perfect thy Life, and Joy, and Glory? Dost thou so rejoyce after some short and slender enjoyment of him in thy heart? Oh how wilt thou then Rejoyce? How full of Joy was that Blessed Martyr Mr Glover with the Discovery of Christ to his Soul, after long doubting and waiting in sorrows? so that he cryes out, He is come, He is come? If thou have but a dear friend returned, that hath been far and long absent; how do all run out to meet him with Joy? Oh saith the Childe,1 My Father is come! saith the Wife, My Husband is come! And shall not we, when we behold our Lord in his majesty returning, cry out, He is come, He is come? Shall the wicked, with unconceiveable horror, behold him, and cry out, Oh yonder is he whose blood we neglected, whose Grace we resisted, whose counsels we refused, whose Government we cast off? And shall not then the Saints, with unconceiveable gladness, cry out, Oh ⟨p. 49⟩yonder is he whose Blood redeemed us, whose Spirit cleansed us, whose Law did Govern us? Yonder comes he in whom we trusted, and now we see he hath not deceived our Trust: He for whom we long waited, and now we see we have not waited in vain. Oh cursed Corruption, that would have had us turn to the world, and present things, and give up our hopes, and say, Why should we wait for the Lord any Longer? Now we see, that Blessed are all they that wait for him. Beleeve it, fellow Christians, this Day is not far off. For yet a little while, and he that comes, will come, and will not tarry. And though the unbeleeving world, and the unbelief of thy heart, may say, as those Atheistical Scoffers, Where is the Promise of his Coming? Do not all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation? Yet let us know, The Lord is not slack of his Promise, 2as some men count slackness: One day is with him as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- 1That the sight of Christ in glory will be no blessedness to the damned Vide Scotum in 4 […] di•t. 48. Q 1. p. 256. Contra […].That the sight of Christ in glory will be no blessedness to the damned Vide Scotum in 4 〈…〉 di•t. 48. Q 1. p. 256. Contra 〈…〉.
- 22 Pet. 3 3, 4, 8, 9.
