Looking unto1efr~~ • . Book.,V. II5I tell you it is written fulf; the page and margent, both within . and without, is written full; it's an huge book ofmany volumes, 0 then let our hearts be full ofpraifes ! let m joyne with thofe bleffed Elders that fell down before the Lambe, and fung. worthy , u the LAmbethllt WM {lAine to receive p~wer, and richu, tfnd wif- Rcv,.5· 12 • dome, aHdftrength,andhonour, andglory, and bief!ing. Yea, let us joyne with all thofe creatures in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the fea, Whom 7Qhn heard, faying, blef!ing, honour, glory, 11ndpower be unto him thllt jitteth on the ver. 13· Throne, ~tnd unto the Lambe for e11er 11nd ever. Amen. ----------------- SEC To 9• Of conforming to 'Jefus in thlft refPell. 9• L. Et us conforrne to Jefus, as coming again to judge ~~ · world. L~o'kjng to Jefm· containes this ; when the Apoftle would perfwade C hriftians to patience under the cro!Ie, he !ayes down firft the cloud of witneffes, all the Martyres of the ChurchofChrift, and fecondly Jefus Chrift himfelfe, as ofmore H b . vertueand power than all the reft; the Martyres fuffered much, c .u.~ . but Chrift lndured more than they all; and therefore faith the Apoftle look.,unto {efm; furely he is the heft exemplar, the chiefe patterm, to whom in all his tranfaCl:ions, we may in fomeway or · .~~" other conforme. · ·.'.'}£' But how fhould we conforme·to Chrift in this refpeCl:? I anfwer.--· t. Chrifi will rn his time prepare for judgement ; oh let us . at all times prepare for his judging ofus; doth it ·not .concerne · us to vrepare for him, as well as it concernes him to prepare for us ? if C:hrift come, and findeus careleffe, negligent, unprepared, what will become of US·? the very thought of Chrifts fudden . coming to judgement might well put us into a wayting, watch~ ing pofture, that we might be frill in readine{fe; it cannot be · long, and alas, what is a little time when it is gone ? how quick-. ly fhall we be in another world, and our fouls receive their part~alar judgement!; and fo waite till our bodycs be raifed, and ' . · · judged ,
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