And must we _meet_ this glorious, this tremendous Judge of heaven and earth? We must. _Every eye shall see him_; every knee shall bow to him; every ear shall be witness to his decisive sentence; and every tongue confess, either with cheerful and voluntary acknowledgment, or with forced and irresistible conviction, that he is God. The people of his grace shall see him, and kindle into rapture at the sight; shall meet him, and find their heaven of heavens in the interview. _They_ shall meet him, to grace his triumphs, and adorn his mediatorial crown, as jewels, of an immense purchase, of infinite value, of unfading lustre. The day of Messiah’s second appearing will be his grand coronation day; whereon, in the presence of admiring and applauding millions, the _crown of salvation_, that crown of crowns, shall be unanimously, publicly, and solemnly placed on the head of King JESUS; and every voice shall shout, _Worthy is the Lamb_. Oh! that each of _us_ may bear some humble part in that immortal song! some humble office in that great solemnity! But _who_, among the wicked, _may abide the day of his coming_; _and who shall stand_, _when he __appeareth_? Mal. iii. 2. _For behold the day cometh_, _that shall burn as an oven_; and all the PROUD, yea, and _all that_ DO WICKEDLY, _shall be stubble_, _and the day that cometh shall burn them up_, _saith the lord of Hosts_, _that it shall leave them neither root nor branch_. Mal. iv. 1. O what a meeting will take place between the Judge, and those, who once refused to acknowledge him as their Saviour and their King! He _will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps_, _and devour them as a lion_; Hos. xiii. 8; and they shall meet him, as the briers and thorns, the flame that consumeth them. _It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living GOD_. In the character of the _Lion of the tribe of Judah_, his advent will be tremendous: but it is _the wrath of the_ LAMB, of the once-wounded, rejected, persecuted, blasphemed, and injured LAMB, that will be most insufferably dreadful; and it is from _that_, they will earnestly solicit _mountains and rocks to hide them_, as a shelter from his indignation. Rev. vi. 16. But, rocks and mountains will be no veil from his all-seeing eye; no covert from his Almighty arm; no obstruction to the shafts of his vengeance. He will find them out though they make their bed in hell; will pursue and overtake them, though they take the wings of the morning, and flee to the uttermost parts of the earth or sea; and bring them down, though they make their nest in the stars. And who can conceive how fearful that meeting must be, when the parties are, rebellious mortals and a holy God;—potsherds of the earth, and the Creator of all worlds! worms, and Omnipotence!