ing ftreight again the Day of Reckoning come, which no Man can tell how foon.

1 Kings 16.30. 1 Sam. 15.33

Acts 12. 23.

Such was the careless Thought of the rich Man in the Gofpel, which fung that lullaby to his Soul Soul thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years, take thine cafe, eat, drink and be merry. But what became of him? The Text faith, The Lord demanded his Soul, and that very fame night following, his foul was taken away from him, and his Goods then might be any bodies: Some God takes away because the World, is not worthy of them; fome again, because they are not good Stewards, and they are not worthy of the World: Such as Ahab, Agag and Herod, for being vile and ungodly Men, they did not live out half their Days Again, God took up Elijah, and wrapt him into the third Heaven: He likewife cut off Fofias, for his Soul pleased God; and therefore God made hafte to take him away from the Evil to come, and the Iniquity of the World,which then was great. Let us well confider and weigh with our felves. what our Deserts are, and examine our Confciences whether there be any reason why God fhould fpare us, and deal fo feverely with other Nations, furely it is becaufe he hopes and daily expects that we fhould bring forth fome Fruit in our Lives and Converfations; which if we do not, then must we expect the fame measure to be meeted to us, as he hath done to others. Some God punishes, as we fee in this Life, which should be an Example to us that live in it, for

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to amend our Lives; fome he lets alone, as he did Pharoah, for a little time, others to the Day of Judgment: And therefore let us not flumber in our own Security, tho' we have Strength, Health, Riches, and all that the World can afford us, bu labour rather to abandon it, and apply our felves to Heaven and heavenly Meditations, and leave the World as our Inheritance; as Sheba. Queen of the South did, who left all, and came from the furthermoft Parts of the World, to hear the Wisdom of Solomon, and if we will not hear his Voice,but ftop our Ears at his Preaching, we must then expect our Punishment due unto us, and with the Jews to be forfaken, and left as Vagabonds wandring up and down, or like Sheep having no Shepherd; and after this Life, have our Torments wtih the Wicked in Hell Fire; fo much for Security.

1. Great Throne defcribed by two Properties. Doct. 2. Chrift's coming with great Glory.

Now concerning the Vifion, St. John Saw a great White Throne; he faw a Throne fet, and this Throne is defcribed by two Properties: First, a great Throne. Secondly, a white Throne, The firft fhews the wonderful Might, Majesty and Power of the Judge. The fecond fhews the Purity, Integrity and Uprightness of the Judge, and both fet out unto us the wonderful Majefty and Power, in which the Lord Jefus fhall come and appear at the time of his fecond Coming, when he fhall fit upon the Throne of his Glory. And then fhall we fee the Son of Man, coming in the Clouds; (which is from Heaven) with Power

Power and great Glory, Mat. 24. 30. Glorious fhall the Lord Jefus be at that Day, not only in his own Perfon and Attendants, being accompanied with all his holy Angels and blaffed Martyrs in their bright Array, but alfo in the Administration of Justice and Judgment, in re. fpect of the Glory he will beftow upon the Godly for now he fhall come to be glorified in his Saints, and made marvellous in them that believe, 2 Thef.1.10. So for the Administration of Justice against the Wicked, upon whom he shall now get himself a greater Name than he did upon Pharaob and his Heft, who now beholding the Terror of the Lord, shall cry to the Mountains to fall upon them, and the Hills to cover them and hide them from his Prefence, whom they are not able to endure, Rev. 6. 16. But it is not the Multitude of People and Nations which fhall then appear, can hide them or their Sins from this Judge.

The Scriptures fets out the Maj fty and Glory of the Son of God at his fecond Appearing in divers Particulars: First, that he fhall come, and all his holy Angels with him. Secondly, That he fhall come with Power and great Glory, Mit. 24. 35 Thirdly, That he shall come in the Clouds, which fhall be as a fiery Chariot, to carry him with admirable fwiftnefs. Fourthly, By his Herald and Arch Angel, making the way by the found of a Trumpet, which Duft and Afhes Mall hea: I mean the dead Bodies of men turned to Duft and Ashes, shall now arife and come to Judgment. Yea, fuch fhall be the Glory of his coming at this time, that the very Heavens fhall

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be shaken, and shall pass away with a noise, and the very Elements fhall melt with heat, 2 Pet. 3. 10 Confider we but the Glory of earthly Princes going unto their Parliaments to make Laws; or of their Judges, when they go to put the fame in Execution against Malefactors, with what Majefty, Pomp and Glory! How are they attended! How are they reverenced and honoured! All these are far fhort in comparison of the Excellency, Majefty, and Glory, wherewith the Lord Jefus the Judge of all the World fhall come and appear at that Day.

Ufe 1. Shews the difference betwixt Chrift's first and fecond Coming.

Herein then we may perceive a manifold difference between Chrift's coming in the Flesh, to be a Mediator and Redeemer,and his fecond com. ing to Judgment. His firft coming was in Meeknefs, Love, and great Humility, for he was laid in a Manger between two Beafts, an Ox and an Afs: And as a learned Father doth interpret it, as it were between a few and a Gentile. And we may read that Chrift faith, The Foxes have holes, and the Birds have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head. Where he confeffeth himself to be the Son of Man, which was his Meeknefs, and then his Humility and Love, in that he had no where to lay his Head. Our Sins caused all this, and more than all this, for he was wounded for our Tranfgreffions, and our Sins were the main caufe of putting Christ to death. The Jews thought once crucifying had been enough, but we daily crucify

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the Lord of Life again by our Oaths in breaking his Commandments, and in polluting his Sabbaths, which will make our Reckoning greater at his fecond coming, which will be to Judg ment. Therefore let every one who reads thefe Words have a care to do well, and ceafe to be what they have been, and deny and go out of our felves, that we may entertain this new Man Christ Jefus, and say with holy David, Pfal. 51. 10. Create in me, O God, a clean Heart, and renew a right Spirit within me, fo that they may appear blameless and fpotlefs before him, having been cloathed with Robes of Chrift's Righteoufnefs, God doth not delight in the Death of any Sinner. Chrift is now a Mediator, and hereafter will be our Judge Mofes was God's Oracle, and did deliver God's Will to the People; he went between God and the Children of Ifrael, as Chrift hath done between his Father and us finful Men, and as Mofes and Aaron pleaded for the Children of Ifrael unto God, and defired rather to be plotted out of the Book of Life, than that they should perif; fo likewife hath Chrift pleaded with God, and hath bought us with his gracious Blood and Life, which he willingly laid down for our Sakes; and as Mofes led the Children of Ifrael thro' the Red Sea, even fo hath Chrift led us thro' the Red Sea of his Blood, which is a full Satisfaction for all fuch as truly repent of their sins. And fo much by the way to fhew unto you the Humility and great Love which our bleffed Saviour bore to Mankind at his firft coming to us in the Flesh;

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