

Transcribed from the 1815 R. Thomas edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

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                                   THE
                           _SPEEDY APPEARANCE_
                                    OF
                                  CHRIST
                          DESIRED BY THE CHURCH.


                        _BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A_

                                 Sermon,

                    PREACHED ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND,

                            _August_ 27, 1815.

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                              BY J. CHURCH,
                MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, SURREY TABERNACLE.

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      It shall be said in that day, lo, we have waited for him, he will
                                     save
                             us.—_Isaiah_ xxv, 9.

                   Even so come, LORD JESUS—Rev. xxii, 20.

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                                Southwark:
             PRINTED BY R. THOMAS, RED LION STREET, BOROUGH.

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A SERMON.


                       SOL. SONG, 8th Chap. last Verse.

    _Make haste_, _my Beloved_, _and be thou like to a Roe_, _or a young_
                     _Hart upon the Mountains of Spices_.

THIS divine Poem, is designed by the Holy Spirit, to exhibit the love of
God our dear Saviour, to his chosen people, with all the happy
consequences of that eternal affection.  The whole book is full of
Christ, as the all in all of the Church, which he has purchased with his
blood—the union subsisting between the elect head and chosen body.  What
Christ is to them, and they are to him, is strikingly set forth by many
well-known metaphors. 