x Luc.16.24 Y z Tim.4.8, a r I06.3,zs a Mat.zB.zo. b Aft 3.z r. C H A P.I. An Expofition vpon the fecond V E R.8. ° Apoc.r.7. But Oh death, Oh Iudgement, how bitter is the re- membrance of thee to a man liuing in his finnes; They fay commonly, Let all alone till that day. Not all : take tafle a little in horrours of your confcience in life : dreads no I Are then aflonifhing in death : torments vnfutferable at the feparation : yet there is a day of fuller Retribution comming, when you fhalI run to the Rockes to hide you, to the Mountaines to couer you from the pretence of the Lambe, and him that fits upon the Throne. ,Thefe heere are but áQxn Thinke of him whole but foule cryed out, IN am horribly tormented in thin flame. What (hall that torment b when body and foule come to be vnited for torture ? Intermitlions God giues you in this life : Refpit to bodies till the IA day : But wo, wo, wo, vnto you, when the Lord kiss fl>all be revealed fromheauen. Tropically its put to denote Chrifls comming to Iwdge- ment : this revealing of the Lord lefas being coniunó therewith : Confider; r. The Style of Chriíts com- rning ; his Revelation. 2. His Attendants, Angels. 3. The manner of it, in flaming fire. 4. The end, to render vengeance. r. What is this revelation of the Lord lefiss? The fame, it may be, which `Paul calles i.,r, vHav : his Y appearing. Saint lohn, ;aripwgar, his z manifeflation ; and fomebodie fome-wlïere,his glorious appearing. r. Heaven it felfe,and the great Chafma betwixt it and vs, cannot keepe from vs his heauenly a vertue and influ- ence : Yet mull b containe him- till the time that all things (ball be reilored. That though we feele his power daily in our protecrlion and fùpport; his gratious operations in our foules, in our Sandlification and Comfort: yet an lnterf i- tium +there is, which keepes from vs fight of his glorious perfon, perfea fruition of his God -head and Manhood. Then (hall that veile be remoued, andjeuery man (hall bee able to point the finger, and fay, Ecce Agnus Dei, that Lyon of the Tribe of udah : Behold bee commeth'with cloude,r, And etsery Eye fIall fee harts , even they that pierced him. z. Or,
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