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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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4. The wicked will be accused by themselves, their own thoughts shall accuse them in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, Rom. •. 15, 16. their own consciences will accuse them, and be as a thousand witnesses against them; they will find all their sins registered in that book, and that book will then be opened, and they will not be able to deny one word of what they shall find there recorded. Thus of the accusers and witnesses against the wicked.
4. The wicked will be accused by themselves, their own thoughts shall accuse them in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ, Rom. •. 15, 16. their own consciences will accuse them, and be as a thousand witnesses against them; they will finde all their sins registred in that book, and that book will then be opened, and they will not be able to deny one word of what they shall finde there recorded. Thus of the accusers and witnesses against the wicked.
6. Concerning the Conviction. And here I shall speak of the conviction of some particular sinners; especially of such who have lived in the days and places, where the Gospel hath been preached, whom the Lord Jesus Christ with upbraiding having of full evidence with convict of their sins. To set this out the more lively.
6. Concerning the Conviction. And here I shall speak of the conviction of some particular sinners; especially of such who have lived in the daies and places, where the Gospel hath been preached, whom the Lord Iesus Christ with upbraiding having of full evidence with convict of their sins. To set this out the more lively.
Suppose that this very day were the day of Judgment; and in this very Church were the Judgment-feat; that here were a great white Throne, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself sitting upon it in his glory, with millions of holy Angels about him, and all the Saints in white at his ight hand; and on his left, all the wicked gathered together into one body, as it will be at the last ay; And the Judge should cry with a loud voice, ring the prisoners to the Bar, Bring the sinners to judgment,