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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.
1. Your particular judgment may be suddenly, and the time of your preparation may be spent quickly; You may be within a few months or weeks, or days, yea, it may be within a few hours smitten by Deaths arrows, and there will be no place for repentance and preparation in the other world.
1. Your particular judgment may be suddenly, and the time of your preparation may be spent quickly; You may be within a few moneths or weeks, or daies, yea, it may be within a few houres smitten by Deaths arrows, and there will be no place for repentance and preparation in the other world.
2. If you defer your repentance, it is a thousand to one that you never repent as long as you live, If your life should continue many years; because not one in a thousand that defer their repentance, do afterwards repent; there are millions in hell that lived under the light of the Gospel who intended to repent, but were prevented by death before they were aware; and it is a thousand to one if you defer any longer, but ere long you will be received into their number; have not you deferred your repentance before this till such a time and such a time? and yet when such times have ⟨p. 260⟩come again and again, have you not deferred it still? and will not your deceitful hearts still find as plausible excuses till it be too late? Remember this sinners, that it is a thousand to one but you will be damned, if you any longer defer your repentance.
2. If you defer your repentance, it is a thousand to one that you never repent as long as you live, If your life should continue many yeares; because not one in a thousand that defer their repentance, do afterwards repent; there are millions in hell that lived under the light of the Gospel who intended to repent, but were prevented by death before they were aware; and it is a thousand to one if you defer any longer, but ere long you will be received into their number; have not you deferred your repentance before this till such a time and such a time? and yet when such times have ⟨p. 260⟩