Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

3. Rejoice Believers, rejoice! Christ will quickly appear; the coming of the Lord draweth nigh; there is a time set, though you cannot know it, because God hath locked up this secret in his own bosom; yet you may know that it cannot now be far off; the Lord will not tarry much longer in Heaven before he come down to Judgment: Look up then, and lift up your heads with joy, for the day of your Redemption draweth nigh, Luke 21. 28. You will not long groan under the bondage and burden of corruption; You will not long mourn and complain under the persecutions of cruel Enemies; You will not long be assaulted and buffered with the temptations of Satan; You will not long live in the dark Prison of the world, Christ will quickly be here and open the Prison-doors, and deliver you into the glorious liberty of the Children of God.

3. Rejoice Believer•s, rejoice! Christ will quickly appear; the coming of the Lord draweth nigh; there is a time set, though you cannot know it, because God hath locked up this secret in his own bosome; yet you may know that it cannot now be far off; the Lord will not tarrie much longer in Heaven before he come down to Judgment: Look up then, and lift up your heads with joy, for the day of your Redemption draweth nigh, Luke 21. 28. You will not long groan under the bondage and burden of corruption; You will not long mourn and complain under the persecutions of cruel Enemies; You will not long be assaulted and bufferred with the temptations of Sathan; You will not long live in the dark Prison of the world, Christ will quickly be here and open the Prison-doors, and deliver you into the glorious libertie of the Children of God.

4. Rejoice, Believers rejoice! When Christ doth ⟨p. 272⟩appear, ye also shall appear; Possibly some of you may remain alive until his appearance, be sure all of you shall be made alive; if you go down into your dust before, you shall not be hid there for ever, you shall not be buried there in eternal oblivion; but the Lord Jesus will awaken you out of your long sleep of Death; and raise you out of your beds of darkness; He will send his Angels to gather you from the four Winds; Think, O think how joyful a day this day will be unto you, when the Voice is proclaimed the Bridegroom is come, Go ye forth to meet him; when the Trumpet doth sound in the Air, and you are called out of your graves by the Angels, and gathered into the company of all the Saints of God which lived in all generations from the beginning of the Creation; and in a moment, in the twinkle of an eye, such of you as are alive shall find your bodies strangely transformed, and all that come forth of the ground made incorruptible and immortal; and when you shall see the Lord Jesus Christ come down with such brightness, and beauty, and glory, and such royal Attendants, and you are all caught up to meet with him in the Air; when you shall find your selves in the number of those blessed; happy ones, whom the Lord will send for, and receive to himself, when the greatest part of the World will be left behind, crying to the Rock to cover them, and the Mountains to fall upon them, to hide them from the wrath of this furio Judge, that is come to condemn them; O how will your hearts then be filled, and even ravished with transporting joy, which no heart now can conceive!