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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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The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 6 › Application 3: USE III.
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USE III.
Will the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ be a Blessed Day to Believers, what then will it be ⟨p. 137⟩to Unbelievers? Unto all Christless Sinners, to those whom Christ at His coming shall find without an Interest in him▪ it will be a Terrible Day to them. A Dreadful day it was when the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, it was a Day of Blackness, and Darkness and Tempest; the Mountain shook and was all on a light Fire. Well, but when the Son of God comes down from Heaven to judge those that have Transgressed that Law, what a Terrible Day will it be? 2 Cor. 5.11 We knowing the Terror of the Lord persuade men. The Day of judgment is called, the Terror of the Lord. No Tongue is able to Express, no Heart is able to Conceive the Terror of that Day. For when the Lord Jesus Christ the Great God and our Saviour shall Appear, all men must come before His Judgment-Seat: And as for Christless Sinners, their sins shall be discovered in the hearing of Heaven and Earth. All the world will hear what secret sins they have been guilty of Eccles. 12.14. God will bring every work with every secret thing into Judgment, whether it be Good, or whether it be Evil. All the evil all the sins that wretched Creatures have committed in secret, will then be told of. Many a Guilty sinner would be ashamed to show his Head among men, if what he has done in secret should be told and spoken of before the world. Well, but at this Day of ⟨p. 138⟩Christs Appearing, all the World shall be told of thy secret abominations, thy secret filthiness, and secret thefts will then be known. Now Sinners think to hide themes by telling a Lye; Aye, but it will be in vain in that Day to go about to hide any thing from the Infinite and Omniscient God. And there will then be a Sentence passed upon all Christless Sinners, by the Mouth of the Lord Himself. And what will that Sentence be? It may make the Rocks to rend to hear what it shall be. They shall be Sentenced to be Burnt to Death, and that they shall continue in those Everlasting Burnings World without end. That is the Sentence