"wait and hasten" saith Peter, "for the Coming of our Lord." All is night that is here, in respect of ignorance of daily ensuing troubles, one always making way to another, as the ninth wave of the sea to the tenth; therefore sigh and long for the dawning of that morning, and the breaking of that day of the Coming of the Son of Man, when the shadows shall flee away. Persuade yourself the King is Coming: Wait with the wearied night watch for the breaking of the eastern sky; and think that ye have not a tomorrow. As the wise father said, who being invited against tomorrow to dine with his friend answered: "Those many days I have had no morrow at all." I am loth to weary you. Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring, for which sin fourteen thousand and seven hundred were slain. (Numb xvi 49). In patience, posess your soul. They lose nothing who gain Christ. I commend you to the mercy and grace of our Lord Jesus, assuring you that your day is coming, and that God's mercy is abiding in you. [Samuel Rutherford]
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