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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 3
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.
but Christ vvill come attended ⟨p. 12⟩with millions of holy Angels, arrayed in such pure and white garments, as shall not have the least spot, or tincture of sin upon them, he vvill come with holy Angels, who vvill be like so many flames of Fire, full of holy sweet burning Love, and covered with such Light and glorious excellency, as will not darken, but illustrate the glory of their Lord and Prince, they attend upon.
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2 Christ will come with a glorious Brightness, and great noise; such a light will shine in him and about him, as will a thousand fold surpass the light of the Sun, when it shineth in its full strength: we read Matth. 13. 43. That the righteous shall shine like the Sun, in the Kingdom of their Father; how then will the Sun of righteousness shine? from whom they will receive all their brightness by reflection, as the Moon and some other Stars do from the Sun in the firmament. It is said, Mat. 24. 29, 30. That at the coming of Christ, the Sun shall be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light, and the Stars of the Heaven shall fall, and Rev. 6. 12, 13, 14. That the Sun shall be black as Sackcloth of hair, and the Moon shall be like blood, and the Stars of the heaven shall fall to the earth, even as a Fig-tree casteth her untimely Figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind; and the Heavens shall depart as a scroll when it is rolled together, and every Island and Mountain shall be moved out of their places. At the coming of Christ there will be such a brightness as will darken the Sun and other Luminaries in the Heavens, even as the Sun, doth darken the lesser Stars, who though shining all night with a twinkling light, and like so many Candles in the Firmament, yet upon the Suns first lifting up his head