Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

4. Awake sinners, awake! when Christ doth appear, ye also shall appear; when Christ is descended from Heaven, ye shall be raised from the Earth; you shall be awakened out of the sleep of death, and will not you be awakened out of the sleep of sin? If there were any hopes, that by getting into your Graves before this day, you could hide your selves, and lie buried there for ever, you might be the more secure; but when your death is not more certain, than your resurrection will be, when the appearing of Christ to judgment is not more certain, than your appearance on that day to be judged, you have reason to shake off sleep, and bethink your selves how you are provided; Death will be terrible to you, if it come with the sting of sin in its mouth, if it shoot its poisoned arrows into you; but your resurrection will be a thousand fold more dreadful, if you awake at the last day with the guilt of sin in your consciences; Sinners, think what terrors will invade you, when you are raised out of your Graves; when you first lift up your heads and eyes to Heaven, and see the Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Judge of the World, come down with millions of mighty Angels, clothed with vengeance, like flames of Fire, and look down with a furious countenance ⟨p. 239⟩upon you; when in your rising you hear the sound of the Trumpet, and such a shout given in the air, as will make a louder noise, than if twenty thousand great pieces of Ordnance were shot off together, just before you; when you have a summons given you, and you are dragged with the rest of the damned crew, which have lived in all ages of the World, to the Tribunal Seat of Jesus Christ; O how will you quiver, and tremble, and be filled with confusion then? and yet can you sleep securely now, as if you were not at all concerned?

4. Awake sinners, awake! when Christ doth appear, yee also shall appear; when Christ is descended from Heaven, yee shall be raised from the Earth; you shall be awakened out of the sleep of death, and will not you be awakened out of the sleep of sin? If there were any hopes, that by getting into your Graves before this day, you could hide your selves, and lie buried there for ever, you might be the more secure; but when your death is not more certain, than your resurrection will be, when the appearing of Christ to judgment is not more certain, than your appearance on that day to be judged, you have reason to shake off sleep, and bethink your selves how you are provided; Death will be terrible to you, if it come with the sting of sin in its mouth, if it shoot its poisoned arrowes into you; but your resurrection will be a thousand fold more dreadful, if you awake at the last day with the guilt of sin in your consciences; Sinners, think what terrours will invade you, when you are raised out of your Graves; when you first lift up your heads and eyes to Heaven, and see the Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Judge of the World, come down with millions of mighty Angels, cloathed with vengeance, like flames of Fire, and look down with a furious countenance