Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

As for the particular place of this judgment, though some point as to the valley of Jehoshaphat for it, yet our Lord, who infallibly ⟨p. 288⟩knew it, being asked the question by his disciples, where Lord? told them only, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together, Luke xvii. 37. After which answer, it is too much for men to renew the question. As for the time when it shall be; in vain do men search for what the Lord has purposely kept secret, Acts i. 8. It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power. The Apostle Paul, after having very plainly described the second coming of Christ, 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17. adds, (chap. v. 1, 2.) But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of Lord so cometh, as a thief in the night. Nevertheless, some in several ages, have made very bold with the time; and several particular years, which are now past, have been given out to the world, for the time of the end, by men who have pried into the secrets of God. Time has proclaimed to the world their rashness and folly: and it is likely they will be no more happy in their conjectures, whose determinate time is yet to come. Let us rest in that he cometh. God hath kept the day hid from us, that we may be every day ready for it, Matth. xxv. 13. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour, wherein the Son of man cometh. And let us remember, that the last day of our life will determine our state in the last day of the world: and as we die so shall we be judged.

I shall now shut up this subject, with some application of what has been said.