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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41706	A discourse of Christ's coming and the influence, which the expectation thereof hath on al manner of holy conversation and godlinesse / by Theophilus Gale.	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing G144; ESTC R6924	117,103	244

them delightsome Certain it is that nothing more conduceth to our looking for the coming of our Lord than such a sanctified Conscience invested with spiritual senses to diseerne between good and evil But alas how far short are many professors of such a tender quick feeling Conscience and is not this the main cause that they so seldome look for the coming of their Lord oh what an Heaven upon Earth is an experimental feeling Conscience 9. It must be a warme heart-affecting eye We al know that the eye if deeply impressed with any object affects the heart So Lam. 3.5 Mine eye affecteth mine heart Sight is the most affective sense no sense ru● with more vigor force and speed into the Affections than sight doth whether it be of good or evil Moses speaks of some Deut. 28.34 who should be mad for the sight of their eyes As evil so good things that strike on the eye sinke very deep into the Affections Such must the sanctified eye be that looks for the coming of our Lord. Indeed al Sacred Science is affective if our notions and contemplations of things spiritual affect not our hearts they are nothing worth As corporal vision is the dore to natural love so spiritual vision to supernatural If our looking for the coming of our Lord affect not our hearts it doth nothing A Christians sanctified knowlege is warme every notion sends forth a ●ivine sparke into the Affections look what he spiritually knows he affects if good If we wil contemplate the coming of our Lord ●he eye of our mind must be amorous and affectionate Such as may enflame love quicken desires strengthen hopes highten Joys fire ●ele and Indignation against sin A barren contemplation in things spiritual implies a contradiction The spiritual sight of Christ 〈◊〉 ever affective If our speculation passe not ●nto affection it is not right Look as those ●isciples Luke 24.32 by conversing with ●●eir Lord felt a Divine fire burning in their ●earts so in like manner the eye that looks or the coming of his Lord is ever attended with a burning heat or affectionate regard to ●●at great day 10. Lastly It must be a vigorous Active Eye The eye is the most spriteful vigorous part in mans bodie because most ful of animal spirits So in the new Creature nothing is more spriteful and active than the spiritual eye of Conscience The best mesure of our knowlege is not so much the Quantitie as the Qualitie and Activitie of it As in nature the lesser the eye if spriteful and vigorous the farther and more clearly it sees Thence the eye of a Sparrow or Hawk sees farther and more distinctly than the eye of an Oxe because the later though greater yet it is more dul by reason of the diffusion of the animal spirits whereas in the eye of a Sparrow the spirits being more contracted the sight is more spriteful and active This holds true in a great proportion here Many sincere Believers who have lesse knowlege for quantitie oft have more distinct and clean sights of the coming of their Lord and things spiritual than other professors who have a more bulky knowlege and why because the former have a more spriteful vigorous eye 〈◊〉 faith which is ful of Divine spirits whereas the later albeit they may have a bigger eye yet it is more dul and unactive Abraham had but a little eye if we regard the quantitie of his knowlege yet he saw farther and more distinctly than the highest notional professors now adays which have only commun knowlege and why because he had a spriteful vigorous eye of faith So John 8.56 Your Father Abraham rejoice● to see my day c. It is the active working eye of faith that alone can look for the coming of our Lord. The eye that sincerely looks for the coming of Christ wil worke the heart towards that day In Christianitie we know no more than we do Working effectual thoughts are ever best An idle lazy faint-hearted expectation of the coming of our Lord is the fruit of cursed formalitie and has undone millions of souls So much for the spiritual eye whereby the soul looks for the coming of the day of God SECT 2. The coming of the Day of God considered in it self its Adjuncts and Consequents 2. WE procede to the Object The coming of the day of God Which we may consider 1. In it self 2. In its Adjuncts 3. In its Consequents 1. If we consider the coming of the day of God in it self then our looking for it implies two respects 1. A spiritual particular fixed Regard to this day in al its Grandeur and Glorie No man looks for the coming of the day of God as he ought but he that has a spiritual eye intent on the Splendor and Glorie of that great day The first coming of our Lord was in the forme of a Servant in a mean abased manner without that pompe and state which was due to his glorious person Ay but his second coming shal be in another-gets manner such as becomes the Lord of Glorie So Mat. 16.27 For the Son of man shal come in the glorie of his father with his Angels The like Mat. 25.31 When the Son of man shal come in his Glorie and al the Angels with him then shal he sit upon the throne of his Glorie So Paul 1 Thes 4.16 For the Lord himself shal descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpe of God O What a glorious Apparence wil this be how wil the whole World in a moment ring with this shout What a dazling ravishing lustre wil shine from Christ and al his retinue Hence to look for the coming of the day of God is to have a constant great regard to that Glorie and Majestie which wil attend this apparence of Christ Thus Paul Tit. 2.13 Looking for that blessed hope and the Glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ If we look not for the coming of the day of God as the glorious appearing of the great God we look not for it as we ought The several particulars of this glorious apparence wil come under consideration in our last Question In the general The second coming of Christ wil be the most glorious object that ever eye beheld and a spiritual believing eye fixed on the coming of the day of God as most glorious sees a glorie in al things that refer to that day a glorie in Grace a glorie in Ordinances a glorie in duties a glorie in sufferings a glorie in promisses a glorie in Saints c. Oh! What a glorie doth that great day and the forethoughts of it infuse into althings that belong to Christ And on the contrarie how doth the spiritual sight of this glorious day darken al the Glorie and beautie of this lower world What a fading Sun-burnt flour are althings below to a believing soul that has his eye of faith fixed on this great and glorious

flame c. By love the heart ascends up as in a flame to meet our Lord. Love is a swift post that carries the heart to its beloved It is never satisfied ' til it arrives to union and fruition of what it loves Absence fires love and makes it burne with a vehement flame towards its approching Lord. Yea it gathers force from obstructions and difficulties Love burning in the Intention of the wil gives swift feet yea wings to the soul to flie towards the coming of the day of God A soul inspired with love to our approching Lord is not its own but loseth it self in the bosome of its Lord There it lives and breathes and moves day by day Love is most artificial and puissant to hasten the soul towards the day of God it commands al the Passions and Actions of the soul to tend and move this way Yea it makes the most difficult unpleasant way easy and pleasant Alas do but thinke what love wil do to meet and enjoy an absent friend and wil it not do much more to meet and enjoy its absent Lord Love grows not faint or weary in its motion towards our coming Lord. Yea it multiplies by acting and that from the similitude there is between the lover and beloved Hence there is no Grace that has such a strong inclination to its act and object as this Divine Love Indeed it s never wel pleased longer than it is hastening to its beloved It immediately delivers up the heart to its approching Lord and so adheres to him by an unio● of spirit It is impatient til it come to take hold of its Lord it melts and dissolves the heart into him Such is the force of Love in hastening to the coming of the day o● God 2. The soul hastens to the coming of the day of God by longing desires after it Desires are the firstborne of Love and the feet of the soul whereby it moves towards its beloved He that is possest with desires after the coming of Christ cannot but hasten towards that great day For desire is an hungry greedy Affection which thinkes it has never enough of what it desires In every lover there is a desire of union with its beloved and therefore the absence of Christ causeth the soul to breath forth love-sighs after his second coming Thus the Spouse Cant. 8.14 Cant. 8.14 Make haste or flee away my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of Spices Flie my beloved As the Spouse began with desires of Christs first coming Cant. 1.2 to kisse her by the Preaching of his Gospel so she ends this her Song with earnest desires of his second coming to put an end to al her miseries Thence it follows And be thou like to a Roe or liken thy self to a Roe i. e. be swift and make haste to flie away or to a young hart on the mountains of Spices Some conceive that the Harts which sed on those mountains of Spices had a very aromatic fragrant smel and thence the Spouse here ressembles her beloved to these thereby to shew how much her heart was ravished with the sweet odors of his Grace and how much she longed for his second coming Thus the same Spouse or Church Rev. 22.17 And the spirit and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come and v. 20. even so come Lord Jesus As if she had said O time post away and hasten the coming of my Lord come Lord come for Love is tormented with delays Thus ardent desires after the coming of our Lord do much hasten the soul towards that day A believers continual crie should be Lord come down to me or take me up to thee His desires after the coming of his Lord should never cease ' til he be master of what he desires This was the language of Pauls groans 2 Cor. 5.2 For in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from Heaven Pauls groans after his dissolution were in order to the conjunction of his soul with Christ and hereby he hastened to the coming of his Lord. 3. The soul hastens to the coming of the day of God by lively Hopes of that day Hope is the neck stretched forth or head lifted up whereby the soul expects with confidence its approching Lord. Hope as the good Spies Caleb and Joshua prophesieth good things in the greatest difficulties A fiducial hope stands on sure ground even the word and fidelitie of God and therefore it wil not be soon shaken though the pillars of Heaven and Earth are shaken Yea when the times are worst hope oft expects the best even the coming of our Lord. Luk. 21.28 Thus Luke 21.28 And when these things begin to come to passe then look up and lift up your heads for your Redemtion draweth nigh These things i. e. distresse of Nations and the powers of Heaven being shaken with other terrible forerunners of the Son of God v. 25 26 27. Then look up Ut solent qui de loco superiori libertatem expectant Grot. and lift up your heads These are expressions of hope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 look up as they who from some eminent place confidently expect libertie and deliverance The more we hope for Redemtion at the coming of our Lord the more our souls wil hasten towards that day If our hopes flagge our pace wil flagge The longer the thread of our hope is the swifter wil our motion be towards the coming of the day of God Yea strong and lively hopes make us partakers of Christ and al the good things that attend his second coming Heb. 3.14 So Heb. 3.14 For we are partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end Principium quo s●stentamur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The principle or foundation by which we are supported Wel-grounded hopes give a subsistence to the good things hoped for and thence we find the same word used to expresse faith by Heb. 11.1 as it is the subsistence of things hoped for Now the good things hoped for being made subsistent and present in and by hope no wonder if the soul hasten towards the coming of Christ hereby 4. The soul hastens to the coming of the day of God by an holy dread awe and fear of that day That great day although it be most joyous to Saints yet it wil be also most terrible to sinners And the terrors of this day apprehended by faith leave an holy awe and dread on believers themselves Oh! what holy Tremblements of heart have many awakened serious souls at the apprehension of that terrible day This seems to be the import of Pauls Exhortation 2 Cor. 5.10 2 Cor. 5.10 11. For we must al appear before the Jugement seat of Christ c. What follows 11. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men As if he had said Oh friends Wil not that