with it, shall have the assistance of God; he will help them, he will not
forsake them, he will strengthen them, so that they shall be able to live
uprightly; and though they shall not be able to fulfil the law of God to
the uttermost, yet for all that, God will take their doings in good part,
for Christ his Son's sake, in whose name all faithful people do their good
works, and so for his sake they are acceptable unto God, and in the end
they shall be delivered out of all miseries and troubles, and come to the
bliss of everlasting joy and felicity.

I pray God, that we may be of the number of those who shall hear this
joyful and most comfortable voice of Christ our Saviour, when he will say,
"Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom which is prepared for
you before the foundation of the world was laid." There are a great number
amongst the Christian people, who in the Lord's prayer, when they pray,
"Thy kingdom come," pray that this day may come; but yet, for all that,
they are drowned in the world, they say the words with their lips, but
they cannot tell what is the meaning of it; they speak it only with their
tongue: which saying indeed is to no purpose. But the man or woman that
saith these words, "Thy kingdom come," with a faithful heart, no doubt he
or she desires in very deed that God will come to judgment, and amend all
things in this world, to pull down satan that old serpent under our feet.

But there are a great number of us who are not ready. Some have lived in
this world fifty years, some sixty, but yet for all that they are not
prepared for his coming; they ever think he will not come yet. But I tell
you, that though his general coming be not yet, yet for all that he will
come one day, and take us out of this world: and, no doubt, as he finds
us, so we shall have; if he find us ready, and in the state of salvation,
no doubt we shall be saved for ever, world without end. But, if he find us
in the state of damnation, we shall be damned, world without end, there is
no remedy after we are once past this world; no penance will help then,
nor anything that man is able to do for us.

"And then shall they see the Son of man come in a cloud with power and
great glory." St. Paul to the Thessalonians setteth out the coming of
Christ and our resurrection; but he speaks in the same place only of the
rising of the good and faithful that shall be saved. But the Holy
Scripture in other places witnesses, that th