2. The Nearness of his Coming. You say, and therefore sorrow on, he will come, but who knows when? How long must the Dead lie there before the day of his Coming, and their Rising? Small Comfort to tell us of their living after so many years, and how many, is unknown to Angels, or Men, as we find Mark 13.32. Say you so, when it may be sooner than you, or any Man, or Angels might think of? However, tho it may not be in our days, and we are like to be among the Dead, a•d not the Living at his Coming, yet he will quickly come, and will not tarry long before he comes. Heb. 10.37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. Tho' to Unbelief and Impatience it might seem long, yet it is but a very little time till Christ will come, and raise the Dead, and fulfil our Hopes; and he will not delay, nor tarry at all, not one day nor hour beyond the due appointed time. We must not measure God's time by the measures of Men, as days, months and years, for one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, 2 Pet. 3.8. and it is not tediously long to the Soul in Heaven, nor to the Body in the Grave; only it seems so to us, but is not really so to God, nor estimatively so to them. It is the last Promise in all the Scripture, and turned into a Prayer, Rev. 22.20. He that testifieth these things, faith, ⟨p. 182⟩surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus. Believe then, in Gods Account, that Christ will quickly come, and the Dead in Christ shall be quickly made to Live again, and do not sorrow as if you had no hope, that this quickly will be done, and all our sorrow quickly will be over.
2. The Nearness of his Coming. You say, and therefore sorrow on, he will come, but who knows when? How long must the Dead lie there before the day of his Coming, and their Rising? Small Comfort to tell us of their living after so many years, and how many, is unknown to Angels, or Men, as we find Mark 13.32. Say you so, when it may be sooner than you, or any Man, or Angels might think of? However, tho it may not be in our days, and we are like to be among the Dead, a•d not the Living at his Coming, yet he will quickly come, and will not tarry long before he comes. Heb. 10.37. For yet a little while, and he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. Tho' to Unbelief and Impatience it might seem long, yet it is but a very little time till Christ will come, and raise the Dead, and fulfill our Hopes; and he will not delay, nor tarry at all, not one day nor hour beyond the due appointed time. We must not measure God's time by the measures of Men, as days, months and years, for one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, 2 Pet. 3.8. and it is not tediously long to the Soul in Heaven, nor to the Body in the Grave; only it seems so to us, but is not really so to God, nor estimatively so to them. It is the last Promise in all the Scripture, and turned into a Prayer, Rev. 22.20. He that testifieth these things, faith, ⟨p. 182⟩surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come Lord Jesus. Believe then, in Gods Account, that Christ will quickly come, and the Dead in Christ shall be quickly made to Live again, and do not sorrow as if you had no hope, that this quickly will be done, and all our sorrow quickly will be over.
