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

Look up, and lift up your Heads, for your Redemption draweth nigh. O how doth the Captive long for his Liberty; so should we long for that Day, for it is the Day of our Redemption. Now the Body is a Captive; and when the Soul is set at Liberty, the Body is held under the Chains of Death. Ay, but then Christ comes to loosen the Bands and Shackles of the Grave, and free the Bodies of the Saints. Look as the Butler was not afraid when he was sent for by Pharaoh, because Joseph had assured him he should be set at Liberty: So Christ comes to set you fully at Liberty, not only the Soul, but the Body. Therefore to think and speak of that Day with Horror, doth ill become them that expect such Perfection of Privileges, to be acquitted before all the World, and to be crowned with Christ's own Hands.

Look up, and lift up your Heads, for your Redemption draweth nigh. O how doth the Captive long for his Liberty; so should we long for that Day, for it is the Day of our Redemption. Now the Body is a Captive; and when the Soul is set at Liberty, the Body is held under the Chains of Death. Ay, but then Christ comes to loosen the Bands and Shackles of the Grave, and free the Bodies of the Saints. Look as the Butler was not afraid when he was sent for by Pharaoh, because Ioseph had assured him he should be set at Liberty: So Christ comes to set you fully at Liberty, not only the Soul, but the Body. Therefore to think and speak of that Day with Horror, doth ill become them that expect such Perfection of Privileges, to be acquitted before all the World, and to be crowned with Christ's own Hands.

(3.) It is a Day of Congregation or gathering together. The Saints are now scattered, they live in divers Countries, Towns and Houses, and cannot have the Comfort of one another's Society. But then all shall meet in one Assembly and Congregation. It is said, Psal. 1.5. The Ungodly shall not stand in Judgment, nor Sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous. There will be a time when Christ's Church shall be gathered all together into one Place. As the Stars do not shine in a Cluster, but are dispersed throughout the Firmament for the Comfort and Light of the World; so are the Saints scattered up and down in the World, according as they may be useful for God: but then when the four Winds shall give up their Dead, and the Saints shall be gathered from all the Corners of the World, this shall be the great Rendezvous. Look as the Wicked shall be herded together, as Straw and Sticks are bound in a Bundle, that they may set one another a fire; Drunkards with Drunkards, Adulterers with Adulterers, and Thieves with Thieves: