Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

1. Christ will come quickly, that is, within a short time. Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. He that shall come will come, there is the certainty of his coming, and yet a little while, he will come, and will not tarry, there is the speediness of his coming. The Lord is at hand, Philip. 4. 5. The coming of the Lord draweth nigh, James 5. 8. The Judge standeth at the door, vers. 9. The end of all things is at hand, 1 Pet. 4. 7. Therefore out days are called the last days. 2 Tim. 3. 1. And upon us the ends of the world are come, 1 Cor. 10. 11. We live in the end of the World, in the last days, in the old age thereof. The World hath as it were three ages, the youth, the middle age, and the old age; the Youth of the World was from the creation to the Flood; the middle age from the Flood to the first ⟨p. 208⟩coming of Christ; the old Age from the first coming of Christ, to the second coming, the old age and last days of the World began in the Apostles time, now many of them are spent, and we are come not only to the declining years, but also to the decrepit age of the World; and if the Lord Jesus Christ were to come shortly in the days of the Apostle, much more shortly will he come now, when so many years are past since the Scripture was writ, and these things foretold.

1. Christ will come quickly, that is, within a short time. Heb. 10. 37. Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. He that shall come will come, there is the certainty of his coming, and yet a little while, he will come, and will not tarry, there is the speediness of his coming. The Lord is at hand, Philip. 4. 5