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A77362	Christs coming opened in a sermon before the honourable house of commons in Margaret's Westminster, May 17, 1648 being the day appointed for Thanksgiving for the great Victory in Wales / by William Bridge ...	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4451; Thomason E471_3	19,393	30

his coming for his Personall visible coming at the day of judgement so he will come again 2 Thess 1. Chap. 7 8 9 10. verses Thirdly Take his coming for his appearing in the cloudes when he will come to set up his Kingdome so he will come again before that great day for if ye look into the Scripture ye shall find that his coming and his Kingdome are knit together do synchronize Dan. 7.13 14. So in many Scriptures ye shall find his coming and his Kingdome do go together Now if ye look into the 11. of the Revelations we shall find it spoken of times yet to come The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever vers the 15. And we give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned verse 17. which cannot be understood of the day of judgement for then the Nations are not angry then the Temple-doore is not opened as is here said verse 18 and 19. I would not be mistaken here for I do not thinke that Christ shall come and raigne continue raigning upon earth a thousand years I do not see how the Saints can spare him out of heaven so long Neither do I thinke that this his coming is onely to be understood of a spirituall coming into the souls of his so filling their soules with his spirit that they shall have need of Ordinances no more for in those glorious times though there shall be no Temple that is a Jewish Temple yet the Temple doore that is the Gospel Temple shall be opened And in Zachariah the last which is plainly spoken of the glory of the latter times yet to come it is said expresly three times in that Chapter that men shall go up to keep the feast of Tabernacles an allusion to the Jewish Ordinance But why not the feast of Passcover and Pentecost onely the feast of Tabernacles many reasons may be given but I think one is Because the feast of Tabernables had been more neglected then other feasts for upon the coming out of Babylon in the 8. of Nehemiah 't is said they had not kept that feast from the time of Joshua the sonne of Nun to that day which was almost a thousand yeares Now the Holy Ghost seeing what degenerations there would be in our latter times and losings and neglectings of Ordinances he saith here that then they shall keep the feast of Tabernacles that is in the expression of the Jews observe those Ordinances especially which had been most defaced and forgotten But I keepe to the words of Scripture Christ shall come in the cloudes again when the poor Jewes shall see him and those which are called Forsaken Reade ch 13 of the 2. of Esdras which though it be Apocrypha and the lowest of Apocrypha being written in Latin yet of great antiquity cited by Cyprian Jerome Austin Cle mens Alexandrinus and divers others shall be called Beloved the Kings bride when the fulnesse of the Gentiles shall be come in when Christ himself shall set up his Kingdome in the world his Regnum potentiae not patientiae when he shall rule from sea to sea when he shall come not riding upon an asses colt but in the cloudes with thousands of Angels ministring unto him When foolish virgins shall be shut out from his glory and the wise professor taken in And in the meane while though our Lord and Saviour Christ seeme to forsake the Churches for the present yet he will come againe unto them with delivering and conquering mercy Behold I come quickly hold fast that which thou hast Revel 3. Obj. But how may it appeare that Christ will come at midnight Answ I shall give you a taste of it in all his comings because there is the same Spirit in one as in another 1. For his spirituall coming when Christ comes first with his Converting grace and causes his Converting mercy to passe upon any soule then he doth come at midnight Job 33. God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceives it not in a dreame in a vision of the night when deepe sleep falleth upon men in slumbrings upon the bed Then he openeth the eares of men and sealeth their instruction verse 14 15 16. When a man is fast asleepe in his sins little thinkes of any good unlesse it be to oppose it then Christ comes and seales on some instruction upon his soule Thus he doth come at midnight Secondly When Christ comes with his Comforting mercy and causes his comforting grace to passe upon a mans heart then he doth come at midnight in an houre and time when he doth least expect him I sought him sayes the Spouse but I found him not I sought him on my bed in private and found him not I sought him in the streets in the publique Ordinances but I found him not It was but a little that I passed from the watchmen but I found him whom my Soule loveth Then and there she finds him where she look't not for him and did not expect him Psalme 42. verse 6 7 8. O my God sayes David My Soule is cast down within me Here 's trouble sorrow and heavinesse all thy waves are gone over me verse the 17. Here 's more Yet saith he verse 8. The Lord will command his loving kindnesse in the day time and in the night his songs shall be with me It is Gods ordinary title The Lord our maker who giveth songs in the night Job 35. We reade of Master Robert Glover mentioned by Master Fox in the booke of Martyrs That though he were a man very gracious and holy faithfully bearing witnesse to the truth yet it pleased God to withdraw himselfe and presence from him in so much that he was greatly distressed while he was in prison and opening himselfe to his friend told him how God had left and deserted him his friend exhorted him still for to waite on God which he laboured to do and the night before his execution spent much of that time in prayer yet no comfort came no manifestations of the presence of Christ the next day he was drawn out to the stake for to die for the truth and as he went he mourned much for the presence of Christ but when he came in the sight of the stake it pleased God so to fill his heart and soule with comfort and the incomes of his love that he cried out unto his friend O Austin heis come he is come he is come This good man was in the darke a great while but when in the darkest time then Christ came Christ comes at midnight when he doth come with comfort And thirdly When Christ comes with outward delivering mercy to a person or people then he doth come at midnight also It is said of Israel that they went out of Egypt at midnight God had promised deliverance a long time before and they did all expect it