Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

7. Christ will be a most furious Judge: he will be most gracious towards the righteous, but most furious against the wicked. He will come in flaming fire, to take vengeance upon them, 2 Thes. 1. 8. He will come in flames of love towards his people; but in flames of anger against his enemies; a Fire shall devour before him, and, it will be very tempestuous round about him; see Isa. 66. 15. Behold the Lord will come with Fire, and with his Chariots, as with a whirl-wind, to render his anger with fury, his rebukes with flames •f Fire. We read of such wrath on that day in the Lamb, as maketh the Kings and great men of the earth to tremble, and call to mountains and rocks to fall on them and hide them from it▪ Rev. 6. 15, 16, 17. Never was there greater love, and more tender bowels of compassion and pity, than is to be found now in the Lord Jesus Christ, towards all them that apply themselves unto him, under a sense of sin, for salvation, here in this world; and never was there ⟨p. 71⟩greater wrath and revengeful fury, than will be found in the same Lord Jesus Christ, when sinners shall come before him to be judged at the last day; He will be very furious, ten thousand times beyond a Bear when she is bereaved of her whelps, or a Lion when he is hunger-starved; How fiercely will Christ look upon the wicked? What scorn and contempt of them will they see in his face? What dreadful frowns in his brow? What fiery anger will there sparkle from his eye, in his looking upon them, as if he would look them dead, or look them into Hell, before he hath pronounced the sentence? How fiercely will he speak unto them? There will be terror in his looks, and there will be terror in his voice: he will speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his hot displeasure. His anger then will break forth into a flame; he will appear to be jealous and very furious, when he cometh to execute vengeance on his adversaries, and punish his enemies for their sins.

7. Christ will be a most furious Judge: he will be most gracious towards the righteous, but most furious against the wicked. He will come in flaming fire, to take vengeance upon them,