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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12170	The brides longing for her bride-groomes second comming A sermon preached at the funerall of the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Crevv, knight, sergeant at law to his maiestie. By the late learned and reverend divine, Rich. Sibs.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.; Hughes, George, 1603-1667, attributed name.	1638 (1638)	STC 22478B; ESTC S113744	32,385	162

of the Gentiles come in the conversion of thy people of the Iewes that their Riches may be an encrease of our Riches that there may be golden times indeed as surely then they will be And then because there is a certaine number of the Elect of God which must bee accomplished and fulfilled and Christ will delay his last comming till that be done Therefore Come and accomplish the number of thine Elect as you have it Revel 6. 11. And white Robes were given to everie one of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled They must stay till the rest come in As they that have invited a companie of Strangers to a Feast doe stay till the last be come so there will not be a glorious comming of Christ untill all the Elect be gathered into one Body And then shall be the Comming of all Commings which is the glorious comming of Christ to take us to himselfe and to make us sit with him to judge the World as so many Kings and Judges of the World and to be with him for ever As the Apostle saith Then shall we be ever with the Lord. And that is a comfort indeed As hee addes there Wherefore comfort one another with these words And so you see the graduall performance thereof Now I come unto the last and that which I meane most to stand upon being a blessed Truth most suteable to this occasion That as it is the dutie so it is the disposition of a gracious heart to aesire the glorious comming of Christ Iesus and to desire all his other commings in way and order to this as they make way for his last comming In the unfoulding of this I shall shew you the grounds and reasons why the Church doth so and then make some tryals whether we doe so or no and then give you some few directions to help us therein Why doth the Church desire so much this second and glorious comming of Christ Because the Church is in want till that time and the ground of all desire is want Wee want our bodies wee want many of our friends c. But then there shall be a supply of all Because our life is hid with Christ in God and when Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall wee also appeare with him in Glory Col. 3. 3 4. Our glorious head is there already when he shall be revealed then our glory shall be revealed for Hee shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all those that doe believe In regard of Christ himselfe Christ is in some sort imperfect till the latter day till his second comming for the mysticall body of Christ is his fulnesse Christ is our fulnesse and wee are his fulnesse now Christs fulnesse is made up when all the members of his mystical body are gathered and united together the head and the members make but one naturall body so Christ and the Church but one mysticall 1 Cor. 12. 12. As the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ. Hence it is that the Saints are called the glory of Christ Christ in this sense is not fully glorious therefore till that time The church desires therfore that Christ may bee glorious in himselfe glorious in them that hee may come to bee glorious in his Saints Because where the treasure is there will the heart be also now where is the Churches treasure but in Christ Our spirits are supernaturall and carried to the best of Spirits and who is the best of spirits but Christ himselfe Because the members are carried to union with the head The happinesse of the Soule is in union with the fountaine of happinesse and the neerer the fountaine of happinesse the more happy what is it that makes the blessed body of Christ more happy then all the Angels and men but because it is hypostatically united to the second Person of the Trinity and so to the fountaine of the God-head the neerer to God the happier the fuller of grace and glory because he is the God of all grace and glory therefore the neerer to Christ the more happy Now after the resurrection we shall be nearer both in soule and body wee may see this by the contrary What is it that makes Hell so horrible because there is an utter and eternall separation from the chiefest and choicest good God himselfe Here the wicked men of the world have the presence of God in the creatures they taste the sweetnesse of Gods goodnesse in them but in Hell they shall have none to all eternity there shal be an utter separation betweene Christ and them But now the joyning to God the fountaine of all good in Heaven makes Heaven to bee Heaven indeed if Christ was not there Heaven would bee no Heaven therfore Paul saith I desire to be dissolved and to bee with Christ and so the Church here Come LORD JESUS then we shall be neare not in soul onely but also in body and soule and in both we shall be for ever joyned to the fountaine of all good It is that which the Church desires here and in the Canticles what is it that the Church prayes for in the beginning Let him kisse me with the kisses of his lips c. There she desires the first comming of Christ but you have it afterwards in the conclusion of the booke make haste my beloved and be thou like to the young Hart or Roe upon the mountaine of Spices Such is the disposition of the Church that before Christ was come good people were knowne by the desire of his comming And therefore it was the description of holy men that they waited for the consolation of Israel Oh Lord come quickly come in the flesh But now the first comming is past they desire as much his second comming and therefore they are described in the Epistle of Saint Paul to be such as love and long for the appearing of Christ a Crowne of Righteousnesse is laid up for all those that love his appearance Therefore if wee had the Spirit of the Church we would Eccho to Christ when he saith I come quickly and say make haste my beloved c. As the Church saith in the latter end of the Canticles Beloved doe but compare the glory of that time with the glory which we have here and and that wil shew another Reason I will shew it by way of comparison a little why the Church should bee desirous of the second comming of Christ. If the good things that we have by grace here are such as eye hath not seene or eare heard neither have entred into the heart of man to consider of for the place is meant