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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 4: USE IV.
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USE IV.
Lastly, Oh! Let us make sure that we be Prepared for this Coming of Christ. And therefore, let us often be thinking of it. Let this Glorious Day often come into our minds. O Sinner often think with thy self, if Christ should come down from Heaven this Night, what account have I to give to him? If He should call me before His Judgment-Seat this Night, what account can I give of what I have done for God and Christ in the world? Think, if the Lord Jesus Christ should come down from Heaven this day, what wo•ld He say to me? Would He say to me, Come thou Blessed? Or, would he not say to me, Away thou Cursed? And remember as Death leaves us, so will the Judgment which will be at the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ find us. We have no time to prepare for it, but while we live in this world. Heb. 9.27. It is appointed unto men once to Dye, but after this the Judgment. There will be a General judgment, but first a Particular judgment; So soon as ever t•e Immortal Soul of a sinner is parted from his Body, then a Judgment is passed on him, and that Judgment will be proclaimed at the ⟨p. 140⟩Last Day, though now none knows what it is. And when the soul is separated from the body, either Christ will command His Angels to conduct that Soul to Glory in Heave•, or permit Devils to carry it to the place of Torment. Oh, then Prepare for this Coming, since Judgment will find us as Death leaves us. God calls aloud to us all to Prepare, yea, to Young People as well as others. Does not God take away some of them, and that suddenly? In the week past, Three Young Men as likely to live as any here this day, over Night were Well, and Dead the next day. There is a Voice of the Lord in that awful stroke of his. And what does the Lord say? The Voice of God unto you all is, Oh! Let every one be always Prepared for the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Every one, Young and Old, be always Prepared for Death and Judgment. Oh that Young Persons would think of that and do accordingly. And remember, that as Judgment leaves us, so must we be to all Eternity.