2. His coming to Judgement, Heb. 9. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 23, 24. When there shall be an universal resurrection of good and bad, 1 Thes. 4. 15, 16, 17, Now although it be true, that at the time of the coming of Christ, to call the Jews, the Churches like chaste Virgins shall wait and make themselves ready for the marriage of the Lamb, Rev. 19. 7. Yet the second coming of Christ seems to be the ⟨p. 10⟩time which is here directly pointed at. Then shall those Churches be Virgin-Church; waiting for Christ's coming, both to their particular judgment, but especially to the general judgment, when he shall appear as a glorious Bridegroom to the consolation and salvation of those who in truth have waited for him the second •ime: For this coming of Christ spoken of in these two chapters, is that coming which is in power and great Glory (not in the Churches spiritually) but in the clouds of Heaven, chap. 24. 30. Wherein he shall separate the sheep from the goats, the one to lie among Devils, the other to possess (not an earthly Kingdom here for a thousand years, as some from mistaking the meaning of the 20th ch. of the Revel. imagine) but to inherit the Kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world, Mat. 25. 34. which cannot be any be ter, not any other, than the third Heaven, where the face of God is seen, and where he hath had an innumerable Host of glorious Angels, his Subjects to serve him, not only since the first time of mans creation, but the first foundation of the world, Gen. 1. 1. Which also Christ himself is gone to prepare for us, John 14. 2, 3. And which Abraham's Faith only expected, even a City which was not earthly, but heavenly, which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, Heb. 11. 10, 11. So that although this Parable looks most directly unto those times which are yet to come, yet as all examples registered in holy Scripture for time past, are applicable and useful for us, so these that are yet to come, are alike instructive to us, especially in these times and places, wherein the Lord (according to his manner of working great things usually) gives among us some small, yet lively resemblance of those days.
2. His coming to Judgement, Heb. 9. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 23, 24. When there shall be an universal resurrection of good and bad, 1 Thes. 4. 15, 16, 17, Now although it be true, that at the time of the coming of Christ, to call the Iews, the Churches like chast Virgins shall wait and make themselves ready for the marriage of the Lamb, Rev. 19. 7. Yet the second coming of Christ seems to be the ⟨p. 10⟩time which is here directly pointed at. Then shall those Churches be Virgin-Churche; waiting for Christ's coming, both to their particular judgment, but especially to the general judgment, when he shall appear as a glorious Bridegroom to the consolation and salvation of those who in truth have waited for him the second •ime: For this coming of Christ spoken of in these two chapters, is that coming which is in power and great Glory (not in the Churches spiritually) but in the clouds of Heaven, chap. 24. 30. Wherein he shall separate the sheep from the goats, the one to lie among Devils, the other to possesse (not an earthly Kingdom here for a thousand years, as some from mistaking the meaning of the 20th ch. of the Revel. imagine) but to inherit the Kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world, Mat. 25. 34. which cannot be any be ter, not any other, than the third Heaven, where the face of God is seen, and where he hath had an innumerable Host of glorious Angels, his Subjects to serve him, not only since the first time of mans creation, but the first foundation of the world, Gen. 1. 1. Which also Christ himself is gone to prepare for us, Iohn 14. 2, 3. And which Abrahams Faith only expected, even a City which was not earthly, but heavenly, which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, Heb. 11. 10, 11. So that although this Parable looks most directly unto those times which are yet to come, yet as all examples registred in holy Scripture for time past, are applicable and useful for us, so these that are yet to come, are alike instructive to us, especially in these times and places, wherein the Lord (according to his manner of working great things usually) gives among us some small, yet lively resemblance of those daies.
