Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

Suppose that the heavens should just now open and you should hear the sound of the last Trumpet, and Jesus Christ should descend with a glorious train of Angels into the air; then all yo• that are believers, and have got an interest i• Christ, would immediately be caught up in th• clouds, to meet with the Lord: but all you tha• are impenitent and unbelievers, would be left behind: and think what terror would fall upon you to see us caught away from you; it may be some of you might come hanging about me and other• when you see us arrayed in shining garments, an• suddenly changed into the glorious likeness […] our Lord, and called by the Angels to go up […] him: O take us up along with you! what, wi•• you leave us behind! Alas what can I do for […] then; I must say, I told you of this time and this before; but you did not seriously regard it, so as to pr• pare; I called you often to repentance, and preach•• Jesus Christ to you, and showed you the way of sa••vation; ⟨p. 55⟩but you would not accept of him, ye refused him, and lived in the neglect of your own salvation. I told you, if you did not forsake such and such sins, they would be your ruin; and yet you would not be persuaded to leave them. I forewarned you of the miseries which would come upon you at Christs coming, but you would not take warning.

Suppose that the heavens should just now open and you should hear the sound of the last Trumpet, and Jesus Christ should descend with a glorious train of Angels into the air; then all yo• that are believers, and have got an interest i• Christ, would immediately be caught up in th• clouds, to meet with the Lord: but all you tha• are impenitent and unbelievers, would be left behind: and think what terrour would fall upon you to see us caught away from you; it may be som of you might come hanging about me and other when you see us arrayed in shining garments, an suddenly changed into the glorious likeness our Lord, and called by the Angels to go up him: O take us up along with you! what, wi you leave us behind! Alas what can I do for then; I must say, I told you of this time and this before; but you did not seriously regard it, so as to pr pare; I called you often to repentance, and preach Iesus Christ to you, and shewed you the way of savation;