2. You have his Assertion, I come quickly. Let me explain what is meant by the Coming of Christ. There is a twofold Coming of Christ, a personal, and a virtual. Some think that the virtual Coming is here meant, his Coming in the Efficacy of his Spirit, or in the Power of his Providence, to accomplish those Predictions. Here are many things prophesied of, and behold, I come quickly, you shall find these things presently produced upon the Stage of the World. So some carry it. I think rather it is to be meant of his personal Coming. There are two mystical Scriptures, which do express all the Intercourse which passeth between God and the Church in the World, and they are both closed up with a Desire of Christ's coming. The Canticles is one, which declareth the Communion and Intercourse which is between Christ and his Church; and you will find it thus closed up, Cant. 8. 14. Make haste, my Beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a young Hart upon the Mountains of Spices. And so here, in this Book of the Revelations, where are the like Intercourses recorded, it is closed up with this, Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly. The personal Coming, I suppose, is here meant. Now Christ's personal Coming, it is but twofold, the first, and the second; the Scripture knows of no other Coming. Heb. 9. 28. He shall appear the second time without Sin, unto Salvation. It is but a fond Dream, to think of a personal Reign before Christ's coming to Judgment; they reckon without-book, that look for any other. There was his first Coming, which was to suffer; his second ⟨p. 223⟩Coming is to reign; the first, his gracious, and this his glorious Coming: The former is past, and the latter is yet expected.
2. You have his Assertion, I come quickly. Let me explain what is meant by the Coming of Christ. There is a twofold Coming of Christ, a personal, and a virtual. Some think that the virtual Coming is here meant, his Coming in the Efficacy of his Spirit, or in the Power of his Providence, to accomplish those Predictions. Here are many things prophesied of, and behold, I come quickly, you shall find these things presently produced upon the Stage of the World. So some carry it. I think rather it is to be meant of his personal Coming. There are two mystical Scriptures, which do express all the Intercourse which passeth between God and the Church in the World, and they are both closed up with a Desire of Chirst's coming. The Canticles is one, which declareth the Communion and Intercourse which is between Christ and his Church; and you will find it thus closed up, Cant. 8. 14. Make haste, my Beloved, and be thou like to a Roe, or to a young Hart upon the Mountains of Spices. And so here, in this Book of the Revelations, where are the like Intercourses recorded, it is closed up with this, Even so, Lord Iesus, come quickly. The personal Coming, I suppose, is here meant. Now Christ's personal Coming, it is but twofold, the first, and the second; the Scripture knows of no other Coming. Heb. 9. 28. He shall appear the second time without Sin, unto Salvation. It is but a fond Dream, to think of a personal Reign before Christ's coming to Judgment; they reckon without-book, that look for any other. There was his first Coming, which was to suffer; his second ⟨p. 223⟩Coming is to reign; the first, his gracious, and this his glorious Coming: The former is past, and the latter is yet expected.
