THIS Text contains Three Things. First, The State of the Glorified, verse 4. Secondly, A part of Christ's Office, verse 5. Thirdly, A Description of His Nature. Fourthly, The Promises. As, 1. Drink to satisfy the Thirsty. 2. An Inheritance to the Overcomers, or Overcoming Soldiers. The 3. is a Threatening of Eternal Wrath to Offenders against the First and Second Table of the Law. And GOD shall Wipe away all Tears. When Friends meets, they give the Stranger his Welcome Home. Here the Pilgrims Welcome Home that our Friend Christ gives us: This was spoken from Heaven, and therefore it is True Doctrine. Then we see that the Sufferings and Tears of the Saints shall be wiped away and removed, but not fully, while the Life to come; For here is Christ's Welcome Home to Poor Sinners: For they come all to Him with Wet Faces, and bleared with Tears for Sin, and the manifold Troubles in this ⟨p. 4⟩Life; And Christ meets them in the Door with a fair Soft Napkin in His Hand, and puts up his hand to their Faces, and says, Hold your Tongue, My Dear Bairns, ye shall never Weep again. And indeed in my Judgement it is a Speech borrowed from a Mother that has a Bairn with a broken Face, all Bloody, and all bleared with Tears, and it comes to her, and woes her Heart to see him so, and she sits down, and wipes the Tears from his Eyes, and lays her Hand softly on the Wound, and lays his Head in her Breast, and dights away the Blood, and lays her two Arms about him, and there is no end of Fair Words. So when Christ and we shall meet in Heaven, He will Huss us, and wipe away all Tears, and lay our Heads in his Bosom: See how he alludes to this Place, Isaiah 54. O thou afflicted and tossed with Tempest and not comforted: behold, I will lay thy Foundation with Sapphires, &c. It is there to speak so, our Lord is Rueing that ever he had handled his Saints as he did Isaiah 65. 18. Be Glad and Rejoice for evermore in that which I Create; for behold, I Create Jerusalem a Rejoicing, and his People a Joy. Verse 19. And I will Rejoice over Jerusalem, and Joy in My People, and the Voice of Weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the Voice of Crying. If ever there was a Blithe Meeting betwixt Two, it must be betwixt the Bridegroom and the Bride in the Marriage-day. And what a Meeting there is of Joy betwixt such a Bridegroom and Bride cannot be conceived:
THIS Text contains Three Things. First, The State of the Glorified, verse 4. Secondly, A part of Christ's Office, verse 5. Thirdly, A Description of His Nature. Fourthly, The Promises. As, 1. Drink to satisfie the Thirsty. 2. An Inheritance to the Overcomers, or Overcoming Souldiers. The 3. is a Threatning of Eternal Wrath to Offenders against the First and Second Table of the Law. And GOD shall Wipe away all Tears. When Friends meets, they give the Stranger his Welcome Home. Here the Pilgrims Welcome Home that our Friend Christ gives us: This was spoken from Heaven, and therefore it is True Doctrine. Then we see that the Sufferings and Tears of the Saints shall be wiped away and removed, but not fully, while the Life to come; For here is Christ's Welcome Home to Poor Sinners: For they come all to Him with Wet Faces, and bleared with Tears for Sin, and the manifold Troubles in this ⟨p. 4⟩Life; And Christ meets them in the Door with a fair Soft Napkin in His Hand, and puts up his hand to their Faces, and says, Hold your Tongue, My Dear Bairns, ye shall never Weep again. And indeed in my Judgement it is a Speech borrowed from a Mother that has a Bairn with a broken Face, all Bloody, and all bleared with Tears, and it comes to her, and woes her Heart to see him so, and she sits down, and wipes the Tears from his Eyes, and lays her Hand softly on the Wound, and lays his Head in her Breast, and dights away the Blood, and lays her two Arms about him, and there is no end of Fair Words. So when Christ and we shall meet in Heaven, He will Huss us, and wipe away all Tears, and lay our Heads in his Bosom: See how he alludes to this Place, Isaiah 54. O thou afflicted and tossed with Tempest and not comforted: behold, I will lay thy Foundation with Saphires, &c. It is there to speak so, our Lord is Rewing that ever he had handled his Saints as he did Isaiah 65. 18. Be Glad and Rejoice for evermore in that which I Create; for behold, I Create Jerusalem a Rejoicing, and his People a Joy. Verse 19. And I will Rejoice over Jerusalem, and Joy in My People, and the Voice of Weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the Voice of Crying. If ever there was a Blyth Meeting betwixt Two, it must be betwixt the Bridegroom and the Bride in the Marriage-day. And what a Meeting there is of Joy betwixt such a Bridegroom and Bride cannot be conceived:
