170 trllri( iI7ILt' ON ï(NOWLEDçt. [DISC. XJ eye, shall be re- united, to make complete and glorious persons ; then shalt all his saints at once appear, and give honour and everlasting thanks to their faithful and almighty Guardian. " Behold he comes with clouds, and every eye shall see him ! He comes in his own glory, in the glory of his Father, andwith all his holy angels! Behold, he conies. exalted upon a throne- of judgment where the Father bath placed him to finish his 'great commission, and tar pass a decisive sentence upon all mankind. My'. faith descries him afar off; I see his day, and I rejoice to see it. He shall summon all the nations before him ; and I shall appear there, I trust, at his right-hand, among the blessed. Then shall he remember, and fulfil all the kind words that he hath spoken tó me on earth, by his holy writings : For in the days of my infirmity and warfare on earth, I have not been ashamed of hini before men," nor will he be " ashamed of me before his Father, and his holy angels ;" Mat. x. 32. " See, O Father, will the Lord Jesus say, see, here am ,, and the children that thou hast given nze; Heb. ii. 13. While they were in the world I kept them, through thy name : Behold, there is not one of them lost; Jahn xvii. 12. " Come," will the Lord say to every humble believer, " come to my right-hand, and stand there among the saints Behold, all is safe, that thou didst once intrust to my keeping : I know thy faith, I acknowledge thy love ; J will now reward all thy humble obedience with ever-- lasting honours; and thou shalt confess I have been a kind and a faithful friend." God the Father shall say to our Lord Jesus, " `Fell. done, mybest of servants, my Son, my first beloved; thou hast kept all those whom I.gave thee to keep, and brought them safe into my presence : they shall be thy glory and thy eternal crown." And every saint shall as it were, echo to the voice of the Father; and say, " my first-beloved, my Lord, and my best of friends, thou hast kept me through all the days of my infirmity and flesh, over since I gave myself up to thy keeping; and thou hast brought me safe to thy Father's house; the glory and the crown be thine for ever !,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=