Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

1. The first appearance of Christ was in the flesh, above sixteen hundred years ago in the Land of Judea, unto the people of the Jews, the only-then-visible-Church upon the Earth. There it was that the Word was made Flesh; and amongst that people he dwelt for a while, some of whom beheld his Glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. There it was that the eternal Son of God was made man, being conceived miraculously by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, without the contamination of original sin, which all ordinary conceptions do introduce: His real Mother, and supposed Father were both of the Tribe of Judah, and of the lineage of David, and he was born in the Town of Bethlehem, according ⟨p. 3⟩to the Scripture predictions: who, after he had lived thirty years in obscurity, was baptized by John Baptist, his Fore-runner and Harbinger; in whose Baptism, when John saw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit of God descending like a Dove, and lighting upon him, and heard the voice from the excellent Glory, saying, This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. He gave his testimony concerning him, that he was the Son of God, and the Lamb of God, who taketh way the sins of the world. Who after his own baptism and temptation, and Johns imprisonment, made his appearance more openly unto Israel, showing forth his glory, not in outward pomp and splendour, but in a more high, eminent, and wonderful manner, altogether Divine, exceeding the imitation of any Earthly Monarch in the World.

1. THe first appearance of Christ was in the flesh, above sixteen hundred years ago in the Land of Iudea, unto the people of the Jews, the only-then-visible-Church upon the Earth. There it was that the Word was made Flesh; and amongst that people he dwelt for a while, some of whom beheld his Glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. There it was that the eternal Son of God was made man, being conceived miraculously by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, without the contamination of original sin, which all ordinary conceptions do introduce: His real Mother, and supposed Father were both of the Tribe of Iudah, and of the lineage of David, and he was born in the Town of Bethlem, according ⟨p. 3⟩to the Scripture predictions: who, after he had lived thirty years in obscurity, was baptized by Iohn Baptist, his Fore-runner and Harbinger; in whose Baptism, when Iohn saw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit of God descending like a Dove, and lighting upon him, and heard the voice from the excellent Glory, saying, This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. He gave his testimony concerning him, that he was the Son of God, and the Lamb of God, who taketh way the sins of the world. Who after his own baptism and temptation, and Iohns imprisonment, made his appearance more openly unto Israel, shewing forth his glory, not in outward pomp and splendour, but in a more high, eminent, and wonderful manner, altogether Divine, exceeding the imitation of any Earthly Monarch in the World.