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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON IV. THE KING OF GLORY. By the Rt. Krv. GEORGE HOIO I, D. ., Bishop of Norwich. Revelations, i. 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also that piereed him; and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, amen. If any thing can lead men to repentance, and turn the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of that Just One, the wisdom which maketh wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus, it must be the united considerations of his merey and justice: his infinite merey during the day of grace, when all sins, that can be repented of, are forgiven unto men; his inexorable justice at the day of retribution, when he shall infallibly render unto every man according as his works shall be. And perhaps there is no better method of stirring up our wills to procure an interest, or of dis-' covering the interest we already possess in the love of Christ, than by viewing in their proper colors the terrors of his judgment, as they will show themselves to the astonished world at that awful hour of his second Advent; when the mark put upon false principles and evil actions shall drop off, and all things be estimated by the measures of Christianity, and the standard of the Gospel of Jesus., The words of the divine and well-beloved John now read are, it is presumed, not improper for this purpose, as they evidently fall in with the design of our Chureh at this season, and speak the same language with her Advent services?Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also that pierced him; and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. In these words we may observe, I. Christ's Advent to judgment, with the manner of it: Behold he cometh with clouds. ...