We have seen that Christ's second coming is the Church's "blessed hope." Its place in the Christian system, and in the Church's view, is over against his first coming, as its proper counterpart. As "once in the end of the world he hath appeared to put away sin, by the sacrifice of himself," so, "to them that look for him, shall he appear the second time, without sin unto salvation." As the grace of the one coming is received by faith, so the glory of the other is apprehended by hope; and thus, between the Cross and the Crown, the believer finds all his salvation and all his desire.

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