Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

As lightning, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. V. 30. They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven. V. 31. And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet to gather the Elect from the four Winds. Mat. ⟨p. 172⟩25. especially from the 31. to the end, where his judicial proceedings are set forth; and our Saviour doth testify to his enemies, that he would come again, Matth. 26. 64. Hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power, coming in the clouds of Heaven. And our Saviour testified by his Angel to John his beloved Disciple, after his ascension into Heaven, that he would come again, especially, Rev. 22. where we have three promises of the same thing. V. 7. Behold I come quickly, Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of this Book. V. 12. Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be, V. 20. Surely I come quickly, Amen. Even so Come Lord Jesus. If any one word in the whole Book of God may be believed, this concerning Christ's second coming and appearance may be believed, of which we have such frequent and evident testimonies in the Word; as surely as he came the first time in the flesh, according to the predictions hereof in the Old Testament: so surely will he come the second time in glory, according to the predictions in the New Testament. God can as soon cease to be God, as this Word concerning Christs second coming fail; when the Sun goes down in the evening, we believe it will return and arise at such a time in the morning, & accordingly it comes to pass: So now Christ the Sun of righteousness is gone into Heaven, whilst the night of this world doth last, though we cannot know the certain time, yet we may believe that he will certainly return, and come down from Heaven in the morning of the resurrection; it is more possible that the Sun when it is set, should abide for ever in the other parts of the world, and never ⟨p. 173⟩arise any more in our Horizon, than that Christ should abide for ever in Heaven, and not return to judge the World, when the thing is evidently revealed and frequently promised in the Scripture.