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Excerpt from Why We Expect Jesus Now
It being evident that the Lord Jesus Christ has promised, both to the Church and to the Jew, that He will come again, we may well conclude, even if Scriptural proof was wanting, and just because of the unvarying appropriateness and harmony of all God's workings that the coming of the Lord for the Church would be of so different a complexion from His return to the Jews as to be a contrast. It must be as diverse as Law is from Grace, as the earthly is from the heavenly, and as kingly rule is from such closeness of relationship as of the head to the body. The character of the com ing can never be the same to subjects as to associ ates, for we are represented as sitting with Christ Jesus in the heavenly places, companions of His present rejection. All this is equivalent to saying that the event cannot be one and the same to both the Church and the Jew. Attempts to blend the two phases of the coming, like all other attempted blendings of the matters of the two dispensations, have produced in our religious literature and teach ings, a thick fog where there should have been a clear sky, and distortions where there should have been the very beauty of Heaven.
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