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Now also shall all Christ's other enemies be brought to appear before him. Now shall wicked proud scribes and Pharisees, who had such a malignant hatred of Christ while in this state of humiliation, and who persecuted Christ to death, those before whose judgement-seat Christ was once called and stood, as a malefactor at their ba•, and those who mocked him, and buffeted him, and spit in his face; now shall they see Christ in his glory, as Christ forewarned them in the time of it, Matth▪ xxvi.64 65: Then Christ was before their judgement-seat; but now it is their turn. They shall stand before his judgement-seat with inconceivable horror and amazement, with ghastly countenances, and quaking limbs, and chattering teeth, and knees smiting one against another.

Now also shall all Christ's other enemies be brought to appear before him. Now shall wicked proud scribes and Pharisees, who had such a malignant hatred of Christ while in this state of humiliation, and who persecuted Christ to death, those before whose judgement-seat Christ was once called and stood, as a malafactor at their ba•, and those who mocked him, and buffeted him, and spit in his face; now shall they see Christ in his glory, as Christ forewarned them in the time of it, Matth▪ xxvi.64 65: Then Christ was before their judgement-seat; but now it is their turn. They shall stand before his judgement-seat with inconceivable horror and amazement, with ghastly countenances, and quaking limbs, and chattering teeth, and knees smiting one against another.

Now also all the cruel enemies and persecutors of the church that have been in all ages, shall come in sight together. Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Antiochus Epiphanes, and the persecuting scribes ⟨p. 277⟩and Pharisees, the persecuting Heathen emperors, Julian the apostate, the cruel persecuting Popes and Papists, Gog and Magog, shall all appear at once before the judgement-seat of Christ. They and the saints who have in every age been persecuted by them, shall come in sight one of another, and must confront one another now before the great Judge. Now shall the saints on their glorious thrones be made the judges of those unjust kings and rulers who have before judged and condemned them, and cruelly put them to death. Now shall those persecutor behold the glory to which they are arrived whom they before so cruelly despised, and so cruelly used; and Christ will make those holy martyrs as it were to come and set their feet on the necks of their persecutors; they shall be made their footstool.