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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
11. Come forth all ye unrighteous persons who have wronged Widows, and Orphans; who who over-reached ⟨p. 103⟩your Neighbours in your dealings; who have heaped an estate together by unrighteous practices; who have squeezed and oppressed the poor, which have had no helper: was not the Law of right written upon your heart? did you not read it more plainly in the Word? did not men condemn you? did not your own consciences secretly condemn you for your unrighteousness? and did not you think that the righteous God would condemn you much more? did you not know, that no unrighteous person should inherit the Kingdom of Heaven? that the Lord would avenge himself upon you for this sin? did you wrong others so much as you have hereby wronged your selves? is the gain of the world comparable to the loss of your souls? is a little Silver or Gold (now taken away from you) comparable to the loss of Heaven, and eternal glory? did you think such faults would be winked at? did you not expect to hear of them again at the day of Judgment? is it an unrighteous thing to punish you for your unrighteousness: Take them Devils, bind them hand and foot.
11. Come forth all ye unrighteous persons who have wronged Widdows, and Orphans; who howover-reached ⟨p. 103⟩your Neighbours in your dealings; who have heaped an estate together by unrighteous practices; who have squeezed and oppressed the poor, which have had no helper: was not the Law of right written upon your heart? did you not read it more plainly in the Word? did not men condemn you? did not your own consciences secretly condemn you for your unrighteousness? and did not you think that the righteous God would condemn you much more? did you not know, that no unrighteous person should inherit the Kingdome of Heaven? that the Lord would avenge himself upon you for this sin? did you wrong others so much as you have hereby wronged your selves? is the gain of the world comparable to the loss of your souls? is a little Silver or Gold (now taken away from you) comparable to the loss of Heaven, and eternal glory? did you think such faults would be winked at? did you not expect to hear of them again at the day of Iudgment? is it an unrighteous thing to punish you for your unrighteousness: Take them Devils, binde them hand and foot.