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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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2. It will be a Glorious Appearing in respect of the Illustrious and Terrible things which he will cause to be done then. For he will cause all that are Dead to come forth […] of their Graves in that day, but every one […] his own order. He shall no sooner Appear, but Believers •hall rise out of their Graves: 1 Cor. 15.23 The Dead shall rise every one in his own order; Christ the first fruits, afterwards they that are Christs at his coming. And before the dispensation of judgment, which begins with the Glorious Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be finished, all that are Dead shall Rise, as well the Wicked as the Righteous. Joh. 5.28, 29 All that are in their Graves shall hear the Voice of the Son of God, and come forth, they that have done Good unto the Resurrection of Life, but they that have done Evil unto the ⟨p. 123⟩Resurrection of Damnation. That is a Glorious thing; Christ will then be known to be the Son of God, when all the world shall see that he is able by speaking a word, to make the De•d to Live. When those that have been in their Graves and turned to Dust, above Five Thousand Years, shall then be made to Live by the quickening Voice of the Son of God. And another thing that he will do (and it is a Terrible thing indeed) is, He will set the world on Fire: set this Earth all on a light Fire and Burn it up. There has been one Destruction brought upon this sinful Earth already; whi•h was by Water, in the days of Noah, when the whole World was Drowned, all excepting one Family consisting of Eight persons. But there is a more Terrible Destruction coming on this woeful Earth, and that will be by Fire, at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Pet. 3.7 The Heavens and the Earth which now are, they are reserved unto Fire at the Day of Judgment. And ver. 10. The Elements shall melt with fervent Heat, and the Earth and the works which are therein shall be Burnt up. The Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ will begin with Flames of Fire, which sinners will be no more able to stand before it, then they can resist Thunder and Lightning.