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A80200	Refreshing streams flowing from the fulnesse of Jesus Christ. In severall sermons, / by William Colvill sometime preacher at Edenburgh.	Colvill, William, d. 1675.	1654 (1654)	Wing C5431; Thomason E815_2; Thomason E815_3; ESTC R207356	165,987	210

Rocks and opened the graves at his death in his lowest condition what then can resist his power in the day he cometh forth to Judge the world since he was so powerful in the day of man when he was Judged in this manner I take it with some sound Interpreters not so much literally of an audible voice and material Trump as to be spoken in an allusion to Kings who in solemn processions to their great and high Courts of Justice have their Heralds and Trumpeters going before them at whose proclamation and sounding as was the custom of Egypt Gen. 41.43 immediately all come out of their houses to behold the King in his state and glory and to do him the homage of the highest civil reverence so when our Lord and King of Saints shall come attended with Millions of Angels then shall he by his mighty power rai●e the dead they shall come forth immediately out of their earthen houses and do homage to him The Godly will acknowledge him for their Lord and Redeemer and delight themselves in the sight of his glorious pomp and power they shall meet him with acclamations of joy Revel 5.9 Thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and Nation But the wicked will be forced to acknowledge him for their Judge and shall be confounded at that sight And because the number of the wicked will exceed the number of the Godly therefore it is said Revel 1.7 All kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him Some think there will be an audible voice at our Lords coming for he can make his thundering voice to be heard over all the earth yet this is most certain and without all controversie that an act of infinite power will go along with that voice As in raising Lazarus from the dead our Lord cryed with a loud voice Ioh. 11.43 Lazarus come forth what he signified by this audible voice he did work and execute by his invisible and mighty power so together with that voice at his second coming arise ye dead and come to Iudgement he will express his mighty and irresistible power in raising the dead he will raise the Godly as their head but he will raise the wicked as their Judge Doctrine The second coming of our Lord to raise the dead The second coming of Christ shall be with great Majesty will be with great glory Majestie and power Luc. 21.27 Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory It was the antient custom that the Conquerors were carried in triumphal Charriots drawn with white horses so shall our victorious King and Conqueror come riding on a white cloud What is meant by the sign of the Son of man Mat. 24.30 and this manner of his coming I conceive in the most simple sense to be the same which is called the sign of the Son of man Math. 24.30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven which is expressed more fully Luc. 21.27 By his coming in glory and power The Divines of the Roman Church in their superstitious conjecture think it will be the sign of the cross Others think it will be some sign immediately preceding the coming of our Lord to raise the dead which sign say they will be so manifest and extraordinary that all men seeing it will be convinced that the Lord is at hand and coming immediately to Judge the world Others take it to be that purging fire spoken of 2 Pet. 3.10 when the heaven like a garment infected from the contagion of the body of this inferiour world about which it was wrapped is purged from that vanity whereunto it is made subject through mans sin Rom. 8.22 But with sound Interpreters I take it to be the same with that glory and power wherewith Luke saith he will come which power and glory will be an evident and peculiar sign of his coming for Millions of Angels will attend him Many Angels were guarding Elijah 2 King 6. how many then will attend his Lord and ours and as by all the beholders a King is known to be there where his special servants are attending him with all reverence so in that day our Lords presence will be made manifest by the glorious attendance of Angels to whom for fitting them for the Ministery of that day he will give some outward visible and glorious representation for it is said Luc. 21.27 They shall see him coming with power and great glory and Math. 25.31 The Son of man shall come in his glory and all his holy Angels with him 2. 2. The second coming of Christ shall be with great power As his coming will be with great Glory and Majesty so will it be with great power at his first coming he subjected himself to the infirmities of our nature and unto the punishment due to our persons and upon this account he came to be Judged Isa 53.5 He was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him That was the day of his weakness but this will be a day of power wherein he will come to Judge the quick and the dead To this effect he hath received a Commission from the Father Ioh. 5.22 The Father hath committed all Iudgement to the Son he will Judge in the humane nature and pronounce the Sentence but by the power of his Divine nature execute the same because God alone in whom is infinite mercy and goodness can make some eternally happy and others in his infinite Justice and wrath eternally miserable and to this sense said our Lord Math. 20.23 To sit at my right hand is not mine to give but the Fathers he giveth it not as man but as the Son of God equal in power with the Father This Doctrine serveth for matter of terror Vse 1 and wakening unto all prophane and careless sinners Terrour to prophane persons that are not moved with the word of threatning thou who hearest all the threatnings with a deaf ear and takest no notice of them for cleansing thy heart and thy wayes from wickedness remember at this day of appearing before thy Judge thou shalt be forced to hear his voice on the deafest side of thy head Thou that wouldest not rise out of the grave of thy sins wherein thou wast rotting for many years thou that wouldst not Judge thy self that wouldest not obey him in this life as thy Lord and head Thou shalt by the force of his power and Iron Scepter be subjected to him as thy Judge in that day wherein all knees shall bow before him thou that wouldest not bow to thy Lord at the throne of Grace shalt be bruised and broken before thy Judge at the throne of Justice Oh how fearful will that voice be when he calls for thee to come out of thy grave to Judgement It will be as the imperious call of a severe Lord at the Gate returning home to

be fully manifested in the day of the glorious resurrection of our bodies Object Object But is not the punishment of sin as well as the fault taken away in our Justification by the blood of Jesus how comes it to pass that the children of God notwithstanding the forgiveness of their sins are yet punished by temporal death Answ I answer Answer Death is not inflicted on Believers in wrath that death temporal is formally and properly a punishment when it is inflicted by God as a Judge in his wrath and when it is a door and passage to the second death and to a perpetual separation from the face of God But the death of the godly is not inflicted by God in wrath for these reasons 1. Because in the remission of their sins and reconciliation with God in their justification all wrath is taken away God forgiveth and forgetteth their sins Isa 43.25 I blot out thy transgressions for my own names sake and will not remember thy sins But where wrath remaineth sin is not forgotten 2. That which is sent and turned by God into a blessing is not inflicted in wrath but death is turned into a blessing to the children of God Rev. 14.13 it is a passage unto their eternal rest in their countrey that is above It is as a speedy passage by sea to a traveller returning home to his Fathers house 3. That which which is precious in the eyes of the Lord is not inflicted in wrath for precious things are testimonies of love and not evidences of wrath but the death of the Saints is precious in the eyes of God Psal 116.15 Next I answer death to the godly is not a door of fear and condemnation but of hope and salvation Rom 8.1 There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus There may be in a great Princes house a common door and gate at which Malefactors do enter and go down into the dark dungeon at which also the children may enter and go up to the rooms above that are full of light The door is one and the same but the use of it is far diverse in the respect to the one and the other So dissolution at death is common both to the godly and wicked but the relation that death hath to them is diverse to the one it is a passage for glory and to the other for eternal pain from whence it appeareth that the punishment standeth not so much in the dissolution of the person which is common both to the godly and wicked As in that ordination of the first death to be a passage unto eternal death which in Gods purpose is ordained and in justice executed on the wicked It is true death wil be bitter in the pains of it even to the godly but this bitterness of death is not properly a punishment to the godly as a bitter potion given out of the hand of a loving father to his weak child is not given as a punishment but as a medicine that though it be painful for a time yet he may have stronger health in time to come So after the bitterness of death is passed the children of God get confirmed health and salvation in the kingdom of heaven Object Object But hath not Christ by dying once fully satisfied for us how is it then that Believers are not freed from that debt of death for the which their surety hath given satisfaction Answ I answer true it is Our Lord died Answ Believers dy not to satisfie divine justice that by his death he might satisfie divine justice fully but to this end we dy not that we may satisfie divine justice for a finite creature cannot satisfie infinite justice yea the wicked in hell do not by their sufferings fully satisfie they will be ever in satisfying but never able to make out the satisfaction The end of the death of the Godly is not as was the end of Christs death to satisfie the justice of God as a Judge but to subject themselves to his fatherly pleasure and wisdom that by death they may be purged from the dross of inbred corruption and thus enter into the glory and Joy of their father for corruption cannot inherit incorruption did not our Lord fulfill all righteousness for us in his active obedience and yet we stand obliged to the mandatory power of the Law as we have endeavoured to prove elsewhere in Serm. 4. on Ezek 36 6.27 though we be not bound to obey the Law for the same end our Lord obeyed it to wit for our justification yet we are bound thereto for this end that by our obedience we may testifie our thankfulness to the Lord our creator and redeemer likewise in our Lords passive obedience his end was to satisfie for our guiltiness and obligation to punishment but a special end in all our sufferings is that we may be conformable to the Lord our head Rom 8.29 not by satisfying with him but by our patient submission to the will of our heavenly father like as our Lord in all things submitted to the will of his father Object Object But many of the dear children of God are not freed from the fear of death as David and Ezechias had their own fears in a large measure Psal 116. Isa 38. How then say ye that Christ hath delivered us from the fear of death Answ Answ Believers have a natural fear of death I answer it is no wonder the godly have a natural fear because they have as all creatures a natural desire of self-preservation and this natural fear being concreated with man in the state of integrity was not sinful But sometime this natural fear exceeds in the godly when faith and hope is weak This excess of natural fear is in them a sinful infirmity not to be defended by any but to be pitied by others and mourned for by themselves and prayed against by all weakness of faith at such times makes their fears great and strong when the children of God have deep apprehensions of death and but weak apprehensions of Iesus Christ and of eternal life by him then is their eye fixed on the bitter potion which breeds astonishment until the time they gather their thoughts and by faith and hope look to that eternal health which will follow upon this bitter potion Our Lord said to Peter Mat. 14 Why art thou so fearful O thou of little faith little faith makes much fear but a vigorous faith into Gods special presence though it do not altogether expel yet will it moderate and regulate our natural fear of death Psal 23.4 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff comfort me They are as children in their loving Fathers hand and fear not to pass through that dark trance to their eternal Mansions of light and glory This doctrine serves to rouse raise our hearts unto the duty of Thankfulness