A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Look upon their Relation to Christ. There are two Relations the Scripture usually takes notice of with respect unto the Day of Judgment, Christ is our Master and our Husband. As he is our Master, we must look for him. It is the Property of a good Servant to wait for his Master's Coming; Mat. 24.46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh, shall find so doing. Here we have only present Maintenance, but hereafter we shall receive our Wages; Rev. 22.12. Behold, I come quickly, and my Reward is with me. A Servant of God should remember, that when Christ comes, he will not come empty-handed; he is your good and bounteous Master. Here you have but an Earnest, as when you hire a Man, you give him Earnest. But now because God would not have our Affections to be servile, therefore there is a sweeter Relation; we are to look for him not only as a Lord and Master, but as an Husband; and therefore it is the Bride that saith, Come, Rev. 22.17. Here we are only contracted to Christ, he hath passed his Promise to us, but the Day of Judgment is the Day of solemn Espousals; Hos. 2.19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever. Here in the Covenant of Grace, Christ doth pass a Promise to the Church; here he comes to give us a Pledge, and take a Pledge from us. As Tertullian saith, Christ took from us the Token and Pledge of our Flesh, and is gone to Heaven to make all things ready; and he hath left with us the Token of his own Spirit, that so we might long for the time when he shall come again for the Consummation of this happy and glorious Marriage that is between him and us. We are to wait for Glory, as a Servant for his Master; and as a Bride or Virgin betrothed, doth wait for the Coming of him that hath promised Marriage to her.

2. Look upon their Relation to Christ. There are two Relations the Scripture usually takes notice of with respect unto the Day of Judgment, Christ is our Master and our Husband. As he is our Master, we must look for him. It is the Property of a good Servant to wait for his Master's Coming; Mat. 24.46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh, shall find so doing. Here we have only present Maintenance, but hereafter we shall receive our Wages;