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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 15
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7. Maintain communion with Christ in his Ordinances; prize Ordinances upon this account, because Christ doth walk there; and improve Ordinances for this end, that you may meet with Christ; •est not in the out-side and carnal part of Ordinances, but seek after Christ in them until you find •im, and labour to grow into acquaintance with Christ, and to keep fellowship with him; and •hen when he doth appear, he will know you again •nd own you, and receive you to live with him •or ever.
7. Maintain communion with Christ in his Ordinances; prize Ordinances upon this account, because Christ doth walk there; and improve Ordinances for this end, that you may meet with Christ; •est not in the out-side and carnal part of Ordinances, but seek after Christ in them until you finde •im, and labour to grow into acquaintance with Christ, and to keep fellowship with him; and •hen when he doth appear, he will know you again •nd own you, and receive you to live with him •or ever.
8. Stand up for the honour of Christ in the World, confess him before Men, and he will confess you before his Father in Heaven, Matth. 10. 32. Be •ot ashamed to profess your selves his Disciples, •nd to own his ways and truths, when they are •ost contemned and despised by the ungodly world, because if you be, he will be ashamed of •ou when he cometh in his Glory.