Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

The day before Christ cometh will be a merry day with some ungodly sinners, they will be eating and drinking, feasting and carousing, singing and rejoicing, and putting the evil day far from them, even when it is so very near; but how will their cheer be changed the next morning? how will their singing be turned into howling, and their joy into heaviness and dreadful terror?

The day before Christ cometh will be a merry day with some ungodly sinners, they will be eating and drinking, feasting and carouzing, singing and rejoycing, and putting the evil day far from them, even when it is so very neer; but how will their chear be changed the next morning? how will their singing be turned into howling, and their joy into heaviness and dreadful terrour?

The day before will be a gainful day, it may be with many in their buying and selling, possibly they may have got a good bargain in their buying, and got good profit in their selling; and it may be a busy day with others in their planting and building, which may fill their time and thoughts with ⟨p. 223⟩Worldly care and contrivements for many years to come, little thinking that the World is not of a years, nor two days standing longer; but O what terror will seize upon these Worldings the next morning, when Christ doth appear to judge them! and they find, that whilst they have gained something in the World, which they cannot now keep, and will yield no profit in this day of wrath, that they have lost their souls and happiness for ever, which they cannot regain; that whilst they have been busy about trifles, they have neglected the one thing necessary; then they will wish, that instead of planting Trees in their Ground, they had spent their time in getting grace planted in their hearts; that instead of building Houses for their bodies, they had laid a good foundation for this time, and got a title to the building of God, the House not made with hands, which is durable and eternal.

The day before will be a gainfull day, it may be with many in their buying and selling, possibly they may have got a good bargain in their buying, and got good profit in their selling; and it may be a busie day with others in their planting and building, which may fill their time and thoughts with