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

(2.) The Saints, they are his Attendants too. Some shall come from Heaven with Christ, others shall be caught up in the Air to meet the Lord, 1 Thess. 4.17. Certainly the Wicked shall be left still to tread upon the Earth. And this contributes much to the Glory of the Day, because when Christ appears, we appear with him in Glory, we shall be like him, we shall suddenly attain to that Fullness of Glory that their Hearts could never conceive of. O what a glorious Day must that needs be, when so many Suns shall meet together! Every one of the Elect shall shine more than the Sun. Then our spiritual Empire and Dominion begins, we come to share with Christ in the Glory of his Kingdom, to be associated with him in judging of the World. Do not then please your Selves with Fancies of temporal Happiness. The Upright shall have Dominion over them in the Morning, Psal. 49.14. When is that? After they have slept their Sleep of Death, then God's Saints and Servants that are now Scorned, Censured and Persecuted; but in the Morning of the Resurrection, when they awake to meet with Christ, then doth our Glory begin. We are all for a while to stand before the Judgment-Seat of Christ. But look upon all the Draughts of the last Judgment, and you shall find this Method; Sentence begins with the Godly, but Execution begins with the Wicked. The Books are opened, the Godly are called, and they are first acquitted, that afterwards they may join with Christ to judg the World: 1 Cor. 6.2. Do you not know that the Saints shall judg the World? The first Process is with the Godly, that their Faith may be found to Praise; but first the Wicked shall go into Everlasting Punishment; Mark 25.46. These shall go away into Everlasting Punishment, but the Righteous into Life Eternal; that by others Misery they may be more apprehensive of their own Felicity.

(2.) The Saints, they are his Attendants too. Some shall come from Heaven with Christ, others shall be caught up in the Air to meet the Lord, 1 Thess. 4.17. Certainly the Wicked shall be left still to tread upon the Earth. And this contributes much to the Glory of the Day, because when Christ appears, we appear with him in Glory, we shall be like him, we shall suddenly attain to that Fulness of Glory that their Hearts could never conceive of. O what a glorious Day must that needs be, when so many Suns shall meet together! Every one of the Elect shall shine more than the Sun. Then our spiritual Empire and Dominion begins, we come to share with Christ in the Glory of his Kingdom, to be associated with him in judging of the World. Do not then please your Selves with Fancies of temporal Happiness. The Vpright shall have Dominion over them in the Morning,