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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 13
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.
Awake then, before you sleep the sleep of death awake out of the sleep of sin, think with yo• selves, this night we may be in Hell, and free, • rather bound in Chains of Darkness and horror amongst the damned; or to morrow we may b• in torments with Cain and Judas, with the Dev•• and his Angels: and therefore give not sleep […] your eyes, nor slumber to your eye-lids, until yo• have redeemed your selves out of the snare of th• Devil and sin, as a Bird out of the snare of th• Fowler, or a Roe out of the hand of the hunter.
Awake then, before you sleep the sleep of death awake out of the sleep of sin, think with yo• selves, this night we may be in Hell, and free, • rather bound in Chains of Darkness and horro• amongst the damned; or to morrow we may b• in torments with Cain and Iudas, with the Dev•• and his Angels: and therefore give not sleep 〈…〉 your eyes, nor slumber to your eye-lids, until yo• have redeemed your selves out of the snare of th• Devil and sin, as a Bird out of the snare of th• Fowler, or a Roe out of the hand of the hunter.
4. Sinners, consider the everlastingness of yo• punishment in Hell; when your Souls are on• in, they shall never come forth, until they […] brought forth unto the last Judgment at Christs a pearance; and when soul and body are joyne and sentenced to this place of torment, and thru into it, the Door will be shut upon you, and yo will be locked in, so that it will be impossible s you to get forth for ever; your bodies as well […] souls will be immortal, and the Fire of Hell wi be everlasting, those flames will never be quench ed, and your torments will never be ended; wh you have been ten thousand times ten thousa millions of years in Hell, it will not bear the pportion of a moment of time, to the unmeasurable