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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33220	Seventeen sermons preach'd upon several occasions never before printed / by William Clagett ... with The summ of a conference on February 21, 1686, between Dr. Clagett and Father Gooden, about the point of transubstantiation.	Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4396; ESTC R7092	211,165	600

sense the Coming of Christ because he did not come in Person as he will do at the last day but in some sense it might be so called because he Appeared by his Power and Providence to do the same work in part which will with incomparably greater perfection be done at the last i. e. to take Vengeance of the ungodly and to save his own People For the Incorrigibleness of the Jewish Nation and their incurable hatred of the Truth and obstinate Persecution of it was dreadfully punished in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Christians had not only all escaped out of it before the Roman Army came against it but by the destruction of it they gained also a very considerable rest from Persecution for some time after And now the reason why this wonderful Providence was called the coming of Christ seems plainly to be this That after his Ascension into Heaven he set down at the right hand of God and had all Power put into his hands and therefore because it is he that Governs the World as well as the Church such remarkable revolutions as that was for the destruction of his enemies and the saving of his Servants are called the coming of Christ God hath given him to be head over all things to the Church and therefore such passages as that was are called his coming to signify that they are the effects of his Providence and government for the good of his Church no less than if he had come in Person to order them as he will do at the end of the World to order all things then And for this reason though in the proper sense of his coming he will come but once at the end of the World yet in this improper sense of it his appeaance to destroy his enemies and to save his People that trust in him nothing hinders but that he may be said to come often before the end of World i. e. as often as his Providence doth signally and remarkably appear for this purpose And thus we are to understand the coming of the Lord in 2 Thes 2.8 where it is said of the Man of Sin that Wicked one That the Lord shall consume him with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy him with the brightness of his coming which being to be done before the Personal coming of Christ to Judgment the meaning must be that his destruction shall be so remarkably the work of a Divine Providence that all shall confess it was not the effect of Worldly Policy but no less the doing of the Lord than if himself had come in Person to destroy him And whenever the Kingdoms of the World become the Kingdoms of the Lord when the knowledg of God covers the earth as the waters cover the Sea when those magnificent predictions are fulfilled concerning the universal prevalence of Truth and Goodness amongst men with which the Old and New Testament are plentifully furnished and which are to be fulfilled before the coming of Christ to the last Judgment then also is it true that the Lord comes i. e. by the Power of his Spirit and Providence to renew and reform a degenerate World that was running headlong into perdition And thus much concerning the sense of these words when the Son of man cometh which I have shown do principally signifie that great and amazing revolution when he shall come by coming in his own Person at the last day to judge the World but in a secondary sense do also signifie the remarkable works of his Providence in Punishing some and saving others even in this Life Now 2. How are we to understand that other clause will he find Faith upon the earth The meaning of the question is plainly this That he will not find Faith on the earth or very little in comparison But what is here meant by Faith I answer that is easily discerned by the Parable and the Application of it that went before The design of both which was to infer the conclusion in the foregoing verse And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you he will avenge them speedily That is to say God would hear the Prayers of Righteous men and in a little time take their cause into his own hand and then says our Saviour Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth i. e. notwithstanding the Promises of God to hear the Pravers of good men and to interpose for them that depend upon him there will be but little Faith in these Promises found upon the Earth even when the Son of Man comes to fulfil them The greatest part will not be found to believe any thing at all of them and so will be surprized with that day without any preparation for it or expectation of it Many will yield to the Temptations of this present World and throwing off their dependance upon God will think to secure themselves by Flattery and Hypocrisy from the Violence of Wicked men others will despair of any better state of things And very few will lay to heart the promises which God hath made to hear the Prayers of his Servants and to save them Few will strengthen themselves in God by crying to him day and night and by putting their whole trust and confidence in him and this notwithstanding the clear and strong reasons they have from his word so to do Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth And thus we may from other places of Scripture observe that immediately before the Day of judgment there will be a great falling away from Christian Piety and Charity nay and the World should begin once more to depart from the Purity of Faith many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many and because Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold But says our Saviour he that endures to the end shall be saved thereby intimating that it would be some matter of difficulty to endure to the end Thus also St. Peter tells us that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying Where is the promise of his coming which is plainly meant of the Day of Judgment before which according to the Revelation of St. John Satan was to be loosed for a little time and to go out and to deceive the nations and to gather them together against the City of God. And therefore it will be remarkably true at the day of Judgment that when the Son of Man cometh he will find but little Faith in the Earth The World will be in a careless Posture as it was before that the Flood came and took them all away And for the same reason there is but little Faith in the earth when God enters into Judgment with the world for the violence and iniquities of Men and asserts the cause of innocence and righteousness against them for in