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" The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels." - Matthew 16:27.

It seems to have been an important part of the divine plan that the people of God, from Adam onward to the actual advent of the Messiah, should be momentarily expecting that Messiah; the times and the seasons he dimly revealed, reserving them mainly for his own contemplation. And scarcely had the Saviour at length alighted on this earth than he began to direct the minds of the new people whom he was forming for himself, to his ulterior advent in glory. To wait for the Son of God from heaven, is as much the proper attitude of the Church of this dispensation, as of that of former dispensations.

When he came on his errand of humiliation, there was no element of humiliation wanting; and when he cometh for the exhibition of glory, we may be sure that there shall be no element of glory wanting. For consider that he cometh in the glory of his Father. The inconceivable glory of God in the material universe, in the angelic hierarchies, in the heaven of heavens, must all be placed upon the Redeemer, even as once our sins were all laid upon him. Yes, he must come clothed with the virtues of all beings, with all the righteousness that is, with all the wisdom that is, with all the beauty that is, all the power, all the excellence of all existences. The glory of the sun will be changed to sackcloth, the brightness of the heaven to darkness, not by any change in them, but by the superior glory then introduced. This glory is to burst upon the world in a day and in an hour, when men expect it not: hence the need that Christians should expect it in every day and hour. The gospel includes both advents. Christ as often spoke to his disciples of his future coming in glory, as of his dying in Jerusalem.

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