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

4. Christ comes not simply to glorify us, but to bring the Saints to Heaven with the more State. O Christians! remember Christ thinks he can never do you Honour enough: Christ doth not send for us, but he will come in Person; John 14.3. I will come again, and receive you unto my self, that where I am, there ye may be also. Look as the Bridegroom comes with the Youth and Flower of the City, to bring in his Bride in State; so Christ brings the Flower of Heaven, all his holy Angels to conduct us in State to our everlasting Mansions.

4. Christ comes not simply to glorify us, but to bring the Saints to Heaven with the more State. O Christians! remember Christ thinks he can never do you Honour enough: Christ doth not send for us, but he will come in Person; Iohn 14.3. I will come again, and receive you unto my self, that where I am, there ye may be also. Look as the Bridegroom comes with the Youth and Flower of the City, to bring in his Bride in State; so Christ brings the Flower of Heaven, all his holy Angels to conduct us in State to our everlasting Mansions.

5. He comes in Glory, that all Creatures might see his Glory to the full. Men and Angels were made for this Spectacle, that they might behold the Glory of Christ. It was evidenced in part at the Resurrection; Rom. 1.4. And declared to be the Son of God with Power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the Resurrection from the Dead. But that was but a private and more covert Declaration to the Jews; and when it was published to the World in the Gospel, many believed not. We have the spiritual Evidences of it to Faith, but not to Sense and Sight. But now the Personal Union shall fully and undeniably appear, which before appeared but in part; he is now declared to be the Great God.