[Our final selection from Hugh Binning, appropriately ending with watchful preparation for the coming of the Lord.]
Hugh Binning (Practical Sermons), Works, pp. 657-658:
It is not without special reason that the New Testament speaks of all the time from Christ’s coming to the end, as the last time; as it were but one age or generation immediately preceding the great day, as if the day of judgment were to be, or this generation of the earth would pass...
P. 659:
Christ Jesus is coming, and is near, therefore watch. This Christ himself presses earnestly: Be as men that wait for the coming of their Lord, since he is not far off. Therefore, Christians, ye ought to be upon your feet, and not sit down with the creature. Ye should entertain this hope of his coming, and comfort yourselves by it, and be kept at your duty by it. I may say, there is nothing that is less known among Christians. Christ and his apostles often pressed it, as it seems he would have it the one ever running duty, through all generations. Ye ought then to be ready for Christ’s coming, and not be found sleeping.
Hugh Binning (Practical Sermons), Works, pp. 657-658:
It is not without special reason that the New Testament speaks of all the time from Christ’s coming to the end, as the last time; as it were but one age or generation immediately preceding the great day, as if the day of judgment were to be, or this generation of the earth would pass...
P. 659:
Christ Jesus is coming, and is near, therefore watch. This Christ himself presses earnestly: Be as men that wait for the coming of their Lord, since he is not far off. Therefore, Christians, ye ought to be upon your feet, and not sit down with the creature. Ye should entertain this hope of his coming, and comfort yourselves by it, and be kept at your duty by it. I may say, there is nothing that is less known among Christians. Christ and his apostles often pressed it, as it seems he would have it the one ever running duty, through all generations. Ye ought then to be ready for Christ’s coming, and not be found sleeping.