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Christ in the clouds, or, God's coming to judgment A short treatise, very necessary in these evil and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord may be their day of joy.
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any Partiality to be used For the Kings of the Earth Gentlemen Rich men the great and chief Captains the Mighty men every Bond-man and every Freeman shall hide themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and shall say to the Rocks and Mountains fall upon us and hide us from the Face of him that litteth upon the Thâone and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great Day of wrath is come and who shall be able to stand But when the Son of man shall come in the Majesty of his Glory and the Holy Angels with him before whom all Nations shall be gathered he shall then seperate them one from another as the Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats and he shall set his sheep on his Right hand and the Goats on the Left-hand and the Ring shall say to them on the Right-hand Matt. 25. Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the VVorld But to them on the Left-hand he shall say Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And these shall go into Everlasting Punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal To Conclude this point hear the Counsel of our Saviour Christ Luke 31.24 Take heed least at any time your Heart be over-charged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness and cares of this Life and so that Day come upon you unawares For as a Snare it shall come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole Earth Watch ye and Pray alwaies that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man Since therefore all these things are fuddenly expected to be fulfilled and all that read the Scriptures may hear this both from Prophets and Apostles Nay and Christ himself That it is a terrible thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God It is a wonder that since all things as the Apostle saith shall be dissolved that now at length we become not pure and walk in the Holy conversation and Godliness looking for and hasting unto the coming of the Day of God wherein the Heavens being on Fire shall be dissolveâ and the Element shall melt with Fervert heat 2 Pet. 3.2 It is a Wonder that we do not deny all ungodliness and worldly desires and Lusts of the uesh the Glory of the world the deceitfulness of Riches and the choaking cares of all Earthly things and exercise our selves in all Sobriety and Goodness looking for the Blessed hope and the Glorious appearance of that great God and our Saviour Iesus Christ It ought therefore to be our first and chief rate in these dangerous and wicked Times not being drown'd in the Imploiments of this World to have a care of our Salvation and to make sure the Anchor of our hope and Faith That our Souls suffer not Eternal Shipwrack 2 Timm 3 5. Let us noâperswade our selves that the Lord is not near let us not say with them that Peter reprehended where is the promise of his coming For since the Fathers âell asleep all things continue as they were since the Creation For how long those things shall continue the Lord of Hosts by the Propher Haggaâ doth declare Yet once it is a little while and I will shake the Heavens and the Earth the Sea and the dry Land Now the Apostle Peter gives the reason why he is not yet come Pet. 1.9 'T is his long-suffering saith he to us ward not ãâã that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance Wherefore account that the long-suffering of the Lord is Salvation and the diligent that you may be found of him in fear without Spot and âanâeâess We must be diligent and watchful The Greâians are gone aside we have a Simon in us that will yield the place to them We must continually watch and have alwaies an Eye to the watch holding our Weapons ãâã our hands unless we be minââd at all time to be surprised and yeild at the pleasure of ãâã Enemy For The Day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the Night in which thâ Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Element shall melt with fervent heat Therefore be ye ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of maâ cometh Now they that defer the coming of the Lord and say with that Evil servant my Lord delayeth his coming let us Eat and Drink and be Drunken Tell them the Lord will come in a day when they look not for him and in an hour when they are not aware and will cut them asunder and will give them their portion with the Vnbelievers and Hypocrites where there shall be weeping and waiting and gnashing of teeth Luke 12.47 Now they that know these things and prepare not themselves neither do according to the will of God shall be beaten with many stripes as the Apostle St. Luke hath in his Gospel pronounced Let us endeavour therefore that when the last day cometh we may say with St. Paul Tim. 4.7 I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Hence-forth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord that Righteous Iudge shall give me that day But is this Crown laid up for thee alone O Paul not only for me saith he but also for them that love the Lord Iesus and expect his appearance O that this would take some impression in the heardest of hearts that do sing a temporal Requiem here unto their Souls least while they think the Day of the Lord is farthest from them it on the suddain come unto them and so they be found in a condition too late to be amended and by no means whatsoever to be avoided To conclude all gird up the Loyns of your minds be sober and hope to the end For the Glory that is to be brought to you at the Revelation of Iesus Christ as obedient Children not walking after your former Iusts of Ignorance Let your Loyns I say be girded and your lights burning and you your selves like unto them that wait for the Lord when he will return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh you may open immediately Luke 12.36 Blessed is the Servant whom his Master when he cometh finds so doing Of a truth I say unto you he will make him Ruler over all he hath Take ye heed Watch and Pray for ye know ãâã when the time is For the Son of ãâã Man taking a far journey who left his ãâã and gave Authority to his Servant ãâã every man his work commanding them wait Watch ye therefore for ye know when the time is for ye know not when master cometh at Even at midnight of the Cock crowing least coming suddenly finde you sleeping and so cast you into ãâã there to remain world without end From which the Lord Jesus keepâ all and that for his Mercies ãâã alone To whom be rendredâ Honour Glory Praise and Thaââ giving now and for ever AMEN FINIS