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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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another was engaged in a great Trade, and he must follow it; another had married a Wife, and he could not, and none of them would come, and taste of thy Banquet; the cares of the World, the deceitfulness of riches, the pleasures of this life, and the lusts of other things, did so overcharge their thoughts and hearts, that the Gospel and rich provisions thereof lay by disregarded.
another was engaged in a great Trade, and he must follow it; another had married a Wife, and he could not, and none of them would come, and taste of thy Banquet; the cares of the World, the deceitfulness of riches, the pleasures of this life, and the lusts of other things, did so overcharge their thoughts and hearts, that the Gospel and rich provisiens thereof lay by disregarded.
Such will be the accusations of some Ministers; such witness must they give at the last day against those of their Flock, who shall be found in the number of the wicked and disobedient to the Gospel; then their Sermons, now forgotten, will be remembered, and be so many evidences against them; O that our People would remember them now! O that they would now consider, and believe, and turn, and live, and avoid the accusations and witness, which otherwise we must be forced to give in then against them.
Such will be the accusations of some Ministers; such witness must they give at the last day against those of their Flock, who shall be found in the number of the wicked and disobedient to the Gospel; then their Sermons, now forgotten, will be remembred, and be so many evidences against them; O that our People would remember them now! O that they would now consider, and believe, and turn, and live, and avoid the accusations and witness, which otherwise we must be forced to give in then against them.
2. The godly friends of the wicked will be their accusers, and witness against them; some of them are linked in near Relations to the godly, who now are endeavouring to be instrumental for their salvation; but if they do not prevail, they will hereafter be their accusers and witnesses for their condemnation.