2 Consider all that good that Jesus Christ brings with him, and that should move you; for all the good that we need or can desire to make us happy, he will bring with him when he comes to take […] of the Soul: The Lord comes into our Souls not to trouble us and charge us, no, he comes to bring everlasting Salvation and happiness to our Souls; Look what Christ said to […], Luke 19. 5. 8, 9. when he went up into a Sycamore-tree to see him, Make haste and come down Zacheus (saith he) for I must abide with thee in thy house: Zacheus makes no cavilling, nor no tarrying, but made haste and came down and received him joyfully: And mark what Christ said unto him, This day Salvation is come to thy house. So likewise it shall be with you, when Christ comes, everlasting Happiness and Salvation comes with him; and therefore if you do not make preparation for him, you refuse Salvation and Happiness that is offered to your Souls by him. Amos 4. 12. when the Lord had sent many Plagues and Judgments upon Jerusalem, he saith, Thus will I do unto thee Oh Israel, and because I will do thus unto thee, therefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel: I will do thus unto thee, that is, I will send Mildews, ⟨p. 203⟩and Pestilence, and War, and Famine amongst you, I will draw you out with Hooks, and your Posterity with Fish-hooks: And what followeth? Prepare to meet thy God Oh Israel. If God come against us to plague us, we must prepare to meet him; Reason then with your own Souls; Should the Lord come in Judgement to punish us, if we ought to prepare to meet him, then what preparation ought we to make for his coming, when he shall not come thus in Judgement to condemn us, but in mercy to save us, in his goodness to enrich us, in his compassion to comfort us? Then now if ever, prepare to meet thy God O Israel: Let every heart persuade it self in this particular, Is Christ so gracious and so merciful, doth he send from Heaven unto us, and say he will come in, Behold (says he) I stand at the door and 1knock, and if any man will hear my voice and open unto me, my Father and I will come in, and sup with him: He will come in himself, and bring all the good things of Grace and Glory with him for the everlasting refreshing of our Souls: Why! Where are your hearts in the mean time? Therefore if ever, now prepare to meet the Lord Jesus bringing Salvation with him.
2 Consider all that good that Jesus Christ brings with him, and that should move you; for all the good that we need or can desire to make us happy, he will bring with him when he comes to take 〈…〉 of the Soul: The Lord comes into our Souls not to trouble us and charge us, no, he comes to bring everlasting Salvation and happiness to our Souls; Look what Christ said to 〈…〉, Luke 19. 5. 8, 9. when he went up into a Sycamore-tree to see him, Make haste and come down Zacheus (saith he) for I must abide with thee in thy house: Zacheus makes no cavilling, nor no tarrying, but made haste and came down and received him joyfully: And mark what Christ said unto him, This day Salvation is come to thy house. So likewise it shall be with you, when Christ comes, everlasting Happiness and Salvation comes with him; and therefore if you do not make preparation for him, you refuse Salvation and Happiness that is offered to your Souls by him. Amos 4. 12. when the Lord had sent many Plagues and Judgments upon Jerusalem, he saith, Thus will I do unto thee Oh Israel, and because I will do thus unto thee, therefore prepare to meet thy God O Israel: I will do thus unto thee, that is, I will send Mildews, ⟨p. 203⟩and Pestilence, and War, and Famine amongst you, I will draw you out with Hooks, and your Posterity with Fish-hooks: And what followeth? Prepare to meet thy God Oh Israel. If God come against us to plague us, we must prepare to meet him; Reason then with your own Souls; Should the Lord come in Judgement to punish us, if we ought to prepare to meet him, then what preparation ought we to make for his coming, when he shall not come thus in Judgement to condemne us, but in mercy to save us, in his goodness to enrich us, in his compassion to comfort us? Then now if ever, prepare to meet thy God O Israel: Let every heart perswade it self in this particular, Is Christ so gracious and so merciful, doth he send from Heaven unto us, and say he will come in, Behold (saies he) I stand at the door and 1knock, and if any man will hear my voyce and open unto me, my Father and I will come in, and sup with him: He will come in himself, and bring all the good things of Grace and Glory with him for the everlasting refreshing of our Souls: Why! Where are your hearts in the mean time? Therfore if ever, now prepare to meet the Lord Jesus bringing Salvation with him.
- 1Rev. 3. 20.
