I. S. MATT. xxiv. 44. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ὑμεῖς γίνεσθε έτοιμοι. WHAT must we be ready for? leave this World." 1. According to the Nature of His Crea 3. Earth, whereon Man firft receives his 4. XC. 10. When the time here fet him is expired, 5. This is the firft Time against which we 2. Nor furfeited and drunk with the 34. 3. But live above it, whilst you are in it, Coloff. iii. 2. Phil. iii. 20. 4. Be in continual Expectation of your Departure hence, Amos vi. 3. 5. Always live, as if you was dying. 2. To appear before Chrift. 1. All Creatures have Laws fet them. 2. None 2. None but Man can reflect upon them. 4. Nor reward the Performers, Ecclef. viii. 14. and ix. 2. 5. But yet, He takes notice of every Action of all Men, 2 Chron. xvi. 9. 6. All Men must appear before His Judgment-Seat, Hebr. ix. 27. 3. Be ye therefore ready for the fecond Com ing of Chrift. 1. Chrift, the Son of GOD, came down and dwelt with Men as Man, S. Job. i. 14. and vi. 38. 2. He then for feveral Years wrought Miracles to confirm His Gospel. 3. After that, for the Sins of Men, he was 5. After forty Days Abode here on Earth, 7. But will come again, Act. i. 11. 1. Not as meer Man, but the Head of all Mankind, S. Matt. xxviii. 18. 2. With Commiffion to judge all Men, Act. xvii. 31. 3. He will then fend His Angels to ga. ther all together, S. Matt. xxiv. 31. 1. Theff. iv. 16. 4. Then the Dead fhall rife again, 1 Cor. xv. 52. and all Mankind fhall appear before Him, 2 Cor. v. 10. II. How II. How are we to be ready? 1. By weighing and judging our Actions as GOD doth, 1 Cor. xi. 31. 2. Finishing the Work which GOD hath given us to do, S. Joh. xvii. 4. which is, 1. Repentance, A&t. xvii. 30, 31. 1. By Mourning for, Joel ii. 12, 13. 1. Sincerely, 2 Cor. i. 12. 3. Believing in Chrift, Act. xvi. 31. 1. For the Pardon of our Sins, i S. Joh. ii. 2. 2. For the Juftification of our Perfons, 2 Cor. V. 21. 3. For the Cleanfing of our Hearts, Alt. iii. 26. 4. For the eternal Salvation of our Souls, S. Joh. iii. 16. RAS:6 N's for our being thus in a Readiness. 1. Chrift will certainly one Day come, A. i. 11. 2. He will then pafs a final Sentence upon every Perfon. 3. None, fave GOD only, knows when this Day will be, S. Mar. xiii. 32. S. MATT. S. MATT. XXV. 31. When the Son of Man fhall come in His Glory. N Profecution of what was but lightly touch'd upon concerning Chrift's fecond Coming to Judgment, in Explaining the former Text; I fhall take Occafion from this Place of Scripture to obferve farther, I. That Chrift fhall come again from Heaven to Earth. He is now in Heaven, and will be to the End of the World, A&t. iii. 21. But that He will one Day come from thence again, is attested, 1. By the Apostles, 1 Theff. iv. 161 21 Thess. i. 7. Hebr. ix. 28. 2. By the Holy Angels, A. i. 10, II. 3. By Chrift Himself, S. Joh. xiv. 2,3. S. Matt: xxvi. 64 and xxv. 31. II. That His Coming fhall be with great Glory. ป The Archangels fhall be His Herald, 1 Theff. iv. 16. All the Holy Angels fhall attend Him, S. Matt. XXV. 31. 2 Theff. i. 7. S. Mar. viii. 38. This was long ago foretold by Enoch, Epift: S. Jude 14, 15. Dan. vii. 13, 14. So He is often faid to come in the Clouds, S. Matt. xxvi. 64. Rev. i. 7. ענני השמים הם מלאכי צבא השמים The The Clouds of Heaven, they are the Angels of the Hoft of Heaven. R. Gaon. III. Being thus come with His Angels, He fhall fit upon a Throne, that is, Judgment-Seat, S. Matt. xix. 28. and then will come on the General-Judgment, concerning which we may obferve, 1. That there is fuch a Judgment to come, which appears, 1. From the Teftimony of Confcience, Att. xxiv. 25. Rom. ii. 15. 2. From the Juftice of GOD, Gen. xviii. 25. 3. From the Visions of it, Dan. vii. 10. Rev. XX. 12. 4. From GOD's exprefs Affertions of it, Ecclef. xii. 14. Rom. ii. 5. Ecclef. xi. 9, 10. 2. Who will be the Judge? and that is Chrift, S. Joh. V. 22, 27. Rom. xiv. 10. 2 Cor. v. 10. Alt. xvii. 31. and x. 42. 1. Because it is but Reason, that He who was judg'd of Men, fhould afterwards judge them, S. Matt. xxvi. 64. Phil. ii. 9, 10, 11. 2. That fo we may see our Judge, S. Joh. v. 27. Job xix. 25, 26, 27. 3. Who fhall then be judg'd? All Nations and People whatsoever, S. Matt. XXV. 32. 2 Cor. v. 10. 1. All that are dead fhall be rais'd again to Life, 1 Cor. xv. 52. Rev. XX. 12, 13. 2. Those that are then alive fhall be fummon'd too, I Cor. XV. 51. 1 Thess. iv. 17. What Law will He judge by? 1. The Gospel, S. Jam. ii. 12. M 2. The |