350 Chap. r9. AnExpofition upon the Book of J O B. Vert. z5, ons ofpeace, and to call finners to repentance, that's my pre- fent worke ; My fecond comming is for Judgement. But though Chrift be Judge, yet it feemeshe is not the onelyJudge; him- felfe faith that he had afiociated his Difciples (L4.. 22.29.30.), I appoint untoyou a ICingdome,as myFather appointedur..to me,that ye may gate drinkat my Table in my ICingdome,d-fit on thrones judgeing the twelve Tribes of Ifrael. I anfwer ; They flail judge not authoritatively, but doftrinally. As the word whichChrift fpake, fo the word which the Difciples of Chrift ipake (or which any of his faithful( Minifters fpeake according to the truth of Chrift ) Shall judge him (that bath heard it ) in the Taft day (Job. 12. 48.) The word is the ruleof jndgement,as Chrift is the perlon judgeing. Yet, I conceive, that feat in Luke im- ports force fpeciall perfonall honour and priviledge which the twelve Apoftles flail have in the Judgement ofthe great day, beyond the reft of Saints. Ofwhom the Apofile fpeakes (rCor. 6. 2. ) Knowyee not that the S..ints'halljudge the world. All theSaints (hall judge the world as approvers, they (hall Vote as it were with Chritt, and Icy, This is a jolt and righte- ous Sentence ; but the Apófties (hail judge (ill may fo expreffe it) As affeffors with Chrift, to whom alone the Commiffion as Judge is given. Theeen ofthe South (faith Chrift)and the Ni- nivites ¡hall rife up in the judgement with the men ofthsgenerati- ern, andcondemne them,(Luk. II, 31 .)That is the example ofthe +rreene ofthe Soath, who took fo long a journey to heare the wifedome ofSolomon, and the example ofthe Ninivites, who repented at the preaching of7ouah, (hall be produced as evi. Bence for theirconviâí.on andcondemnation, who have heard and refuted the wifedome of a Greater then Solomon, and the preaching ofa Greater then 7onah. The Great judgement (hall be carriedon by many, as Affeffors, asApprovers, and as Wir. neffes, but the Redeemer onely (hall be vifibfl and determining Judge. This day of Judgement will be very terrible ; Chrift who at his firft comming was revealed in flamitg love, ¡hell be then re- vealed in flaming fire (2Thef. r. 7.) This Judgement will be very glorious ; The fi-It appearing of Chrift was fo obfcure,. that it was an appearance but tovery few ; Many who faw the man did not fee the Saviour; but his fecond appearing .will be fo
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