The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

2. Their happy meeting of Christ when he shall come to the last Judgement. That he will so come, the Scriptures of truth have given in a full Testimony unto: that all these shall meet him at his coming, is asserted, context. ver. 15. where it is given as another ground of Consolation to the Children of God▪ and there is a great deal of reason for it, because they shall then meet him in the quality of his Favourites and Redeemed ones. It is true they shall meet him as their Judge: but this also is their great Privilege, because he will then come to acquit them from all that was here laid to their charge, openly to Justify them, to declare them to be his redeemed, to confess them before his glorious Angels, and to adjudge them to be the heirs, and appoint them to the possession of that Kingdom, and those felicities which he hath purchased and provided for their everlasting entertainment: others indeed shall meet Christ at his Tribunal, and there they shall be judged by him, but it is to be condemned, to receive a fearful Sentence, adjudging them to eternal miseries; whereas these being acquitted, shall be made honourable Assessors with Christ in his Judging the world, 1 Cor. 6.2.

2. Their happy meeting of Christ when he shall come to the last Judgement. That he will so come, the Scriptures of truth have given in a full Testimony unto: that all these shall meet him at his coming, is asserted, context. ver. 15. where it is given as another ground of Consolation to the Children of God▪ and there is a great deal of reason for it, because they shall then meet him in the quality of his Favourites and Redeemed ones. It is true they shall meet him as their Judge: but this also is their great Priviledge, because he will then come to acquit them from all that was here laid to their charge, openly to Justify them, to declare them to be his redeemed, to confess them before his glorious Angels, and to adjudge them to be the heirs, and appoint them to the possession of that Kingdom, and those felicities which he hath purchased and provided for their everlasting entertainment: others indeed shall meet Christ at his Tribu•al, and there they shall be judged by him, but it is to be condemned, to receive a fearful Sentence, adjudging them to eternal miseries; whereas these being acquitted, shall be made honourable Assessors with Christ in his Judging the world,