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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1667
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
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3. God's omniscience will be a witness against the wicked at the day of Judgment; their sins have been all committed under the view of God's all-seeing eye; and they have been noted down upon the Book of his Remembrance; and God will witness against them: I saw these wretched sinners when they were b•rn, and traced all their steps; I compassed their path, and their lying down, and was acquainted with all their ways; I did beset them behind and before, and mine eye was continually upon ⟨p. 80⟩them; I perceived the first sproutings and buddings of sin in their tender years; I took notice of their disobedience to their Parents, when they were young; of their lies, and pride, and vanity, of their idleness and sloth, and mis-spending their precious time: I was an eye-witness to all their sins, from their youth to their dying hour; I beheld them when no eye besides was upon them; I saw their privy lewdness, and all their deeds of darkness, which they committed in dark corners: when I kept silence and did not speak, I was not blind so as not to see; and although I did not smite, I did note: and what one of them all have the confidence to deny any one of their sins which I have been a witness unto? The first accuser and witness against the wicked will be God himself.
3. God's omniscience will be a witness against the wicked at the day of Judgment; their sins have been all committed under the view of God's all-seeing eye; and they have been noted down upon the Book of his Remembrance; and God will witness against them: I saw these wretched sinners when they were b•rn, and traced all their steps; I compassed their path, and their lying down, and was acquainted with all their waies; I did beset them behinde and before, and mine eye was continually upon ⟨p. 80⟩them; I perceived the first sproutings and buddings of sin in their tender years; I took notice of their disobedience to their Parents, when they were young; of their lies, and pride, and vanity, of their idleness and sloath, and mis-spending their precious time: I was an eye-witness to all their sins, from their youth to their dying hour; I beheld them when no eye besides was upon them; I saw their privy lewdness, and all their deeds of darkness, which they committed in dark corners: when I kept silence and did not speak, I was not blinde so as not to see; and although I did not smite, I did note: and what one of them all have the confidence to deny any one of their sins which I have been a witness unto? The first accuser and witness against the wicked will be God himself.