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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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1. In respect of the Glorious Attendants that then he shall have. He shall have great Attendants to wait upon him, when he comes down from Heaven into this lower world again. There shall attend him an Herald who shall blow the Trumpet, and Summon the whole World to come and stand before his Judgment-seat; and this Herald shall be no less then an Arch-angel, and as it seems the chief among the Arch-angels. 1 Thes. 4.16 The Lord shall descend from Heaven with a Shout, and with the Voice of the Arch-angel, and the Trumpet of God. Not only an Arch-angel, but an Innumerable company of Angels shall then come to wait upon him, and to do what service he shall see meet to appoint them unto. Therefore the Prophet Daniel did in a Vision see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of heaven: Dan. 7.10 And there were Ten Thousand times Ten Thousand that Ministered unto him. Millions of Angels shall then wait upon him. Yea more, all the Angels in heaven, not an Angel in heaven but shall in that Illustrious Da• come to wait upon the Lord Jesus Christ, the Great God our Saviour. Mat. 25.31 When he shall sit on ⟨p. 122⟩His Throne of Glory, and all the holy Angels shall come with him. Not some only, but all of them. And yet more, all the Saints in Glory shall then come down from Heaven to wait upon him. Zach. 14.5 The Lord thy God shall come, and all his Saints with him. The Apostle therefore prays for the Thessalonians, 1 Thes. 3.15 that they may be found unblameable, at the coming of the Lord Jesus with all his Saints. That then shows that his Second Coming will be a Glorious Appearing.
1. In respect of the Glorious Attendants that then he shall have. He shall have great Attendants to wait upon him, when he comes down from Heaven into this lower world again. There shall attend him an Herauld who shall blow the T•umpet, and Summon the whole World to come and stand before his Judgment-seat; and this Herauld shall be no less then an Arch-angel, and as it seems the chief among the Arch-angels.