Ichabod. Or, A discourse, showing what cause there is to fear that the glory…Ichabod. Or, A discourse, shewing what cause there is to fear that the glory…

Consider 2. That then either a Sentence of, Absolution or a Sentence of Condemnation will come out from the Throne concerning us. Either the Lord Jesus Christ will say, Come ye Blessed or else he will say, Go ye Cursed. There is not one man here this day, nor in the whole world, but shall hear the Son of God himself pronounce an Eternal irreversible Sentence concerning him. He will say either, there is a Kingdom prepared for you, or else he will say, there is an Everlasting Fire prepared for you. Oh how are we then concerned to make sure •hat a Sentence of Life, and not of Death be •assed on us in that Day!

Consider 2. That then either a Sentence of, Absolution or a Sentence of Condemnation will come out from the Throne concerning us. Either the Lord Jesus Christ will say, Come ye Blessed or else he will say, Go ye Cursed. There is not one man here this day, nor in the whole world, but shall hear the Son of God himself pronounce an E••rnal irreversible Sentence concerning him. He will say either, there is a Kingdom prepared for you, or else he will say, there is an Everlasting Fire prepared for you. Oh how are we then concerned to make sure •hat a Sentence of Life, and not of Death be •assed on us in that Day!

Consider 3. The Coming of the Lord draws •igh. Ere long we shall see him coming in ⟨p. 118⟩great Glory and all the holy Angels with him. The first coming of Christ was to be towards the Evening of the World, Gen 49.1. 1 Cor. 10.11. Now considering more than One thousand Seven hundred years are since that Expired, his second coming cannot be far off The things predicted in the Scripture to be accomplished before Christs coming to Judgment, are the most of them already fulfilled. There were some in the Apostles days, who supposed that the Great Day would begin in that Age: whose Error Paul corrects in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. Where he shows that at the Second coming of Christ, the man of Sin shall be utterly destroyed, when as he was not in that Age so much as revealed, and therefore the day of Christ could not then be at and. But some Ages since, Antichrist […] been both revealed and in a great measure consumed by the Spirit of Christ in his Word, which is a sure sign that the brightness of his Coming, that is His Coming in Faming Fire, is not far off Moreover, we that now live see those very things concerning which the Lord has said, When you see thse things come to pass, know that the Kingdom of God is nigh at hand,