(3.) To the Godly, it is not matter of Terror, but Delight; not like the hand-writing on the Wall to Belshazzar, but like comfortable tidings to one that expects news from far; they long for it, and would hasten it, if they might have their desire. Cant. 8. 14. Make haste, my Beloved, and be like a young Hart, or Row, upon the Mountains of Spices. Christ is not slack, but the Churches Affections are strong; therefore she saith, Make haste. So Rev. 22. 20. Christ saith, I come; and the Church like a quick echo takes the words out of his Mouth, even so, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Christ's Voice, and the Churches Voice are Unisons. You will say this is the desire of the Church in general; but doth every particular Believer so desire it? I answer, the part follows the reason of the ⟨p. 127⟩whole, the same Spirit is in all the Faithful; the Spirit in the Bride says, come; the Holy Ghost in necessary things works uniformly in all the Saints, therefore he breeds this desire in them. The meanest, the weakest, even those that tremble at their own unpreparedness, have some inclination that way. There may be a drowsiness and indisposition, but no total extinction of the desire of meeting with Christ.
(3.) To the Godly, it is not matter of Terror, but Delight; not like the hand-writing on the Wall to Belshazzer, but like comfortable tidings to one that expects news from far; they long for it, and would hasten it, if they might have their desire. Cant. 8. 14. Make haste, my Beloved, and be like a young Hart, or Row, upon the Mountains of Spices. Christ is not slack, but the Churches Affections are strong; therefore she saith, Make haste. So Rev. 22. 20. Christ saith, I come; and the Church like a quick eccho takes the words out of his Mouth, even so, come, Lord Iesus, come quickly. Christ's Voice, and the Churches Voice are Unisons. You will say this is the desire of the Church in general; but doth every particular Believer so desire it? I answer, the part follows the reason of the ⟨p. 127⟩whole, the same Spirit is in all the Faithful; the Spirit in the Bride says, come; the Holy Ghost in necessary things works uniformly in all the Saints, therefore he breeds this desire in them. The meanest, the weakest, even those that tremble at their own unpreparedness, have some inclination that way. There may be a drowziness and indisposition, but no total extinction of the desire of meeting with Christ.
