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cnars-r's neon;cormre. llyou to pripsre tomeet your God? No. If they he-`evc not oses and the prophets, neither would theythough one rose from the dead. How foolish, then,would it be for me to try to prove m any other mannelwhat God has revealed or promised, than by the meanswhich God has appointed. By his word you will bsjudged; and if this condemns you now, (unless you bocomereconciled,) it will condemn you heteaiher.III. The object of his coming.his saints to himin the air. "As in Adam all e, so in Christ shall allbe made alive; but every man in his own order-Christthe first fnxit, afterwards they that are Christie at hiscoming," 1 Cor. xv. 22, 23. Again, "For if we believethat Jesus died and rose again,even so them alsowhich sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Forthis we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that wewhich are alive, and remain unto the coming of theLord, shall not prevent them that are asleep. For theLord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump ofGod, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we,which are alive and remain, shall be caught up togetherwith them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air;and so shall we ever be with the Lord," 1 These. iv.14-17. "Now we beseech you, brethren, by thecoming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gatheringlst. He comes to raise andgatherioiether unto him," 2 'l'hess. ii. 1. "Blessed and holyIBin the first resurrection: on such thee that hath partsecond death shall have no power," Rev. xx. 6. InIfmlrns we have the same account of the gatherini ofhis people. "Gather my saintstogether unto mc, osswho have made a covenant wi meby sacrifice,"Psalm 1. 5. Again, see Isaiah lxvi. 18, "It shall comathat I will gafherall nations and tongues; and they shallcame and "see my For thus saith the Lord God,Behold, I,_ Flory."even , will both search my sheep and seekthem out. As a shepherd seeketh out his dock in theday that he is among his sheep that are scattered ; so willI seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of allElm-.es where they have been scattered in the cloudy andlark day," Ezekiel xxxiv. 11, 12.