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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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9. Improve your Talents for the use of the Lord, •ho hath entrusted you with them: All of you have talents, lay them not up in a Napkin, but lay •em out in the service of the Lord; whatever •ifts or graces you have, put them forth to usury, •at you may give an account with joy to your ⟨p. 288⟩Lord, when he shall come to call you to an account.
9. Improve your Talents for the use of the Lord, •ho hath entrusted you with them: All of you have •alents, lay them not up in a Napkin, but lay •em out in the service of the Lord; whatever •ifts or graces you have, put them forth to usury, •at you may give an account with joy to your ⟨p. 288⟩Lord, when he shall come to call you to an account.
10. Stand upon your Watch; when our Saviour had foretold his Disciples of his coming, he exhorts them, and all to watch, Mark 13. 37. What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch. Watch against sin; watch your senses, which are the inlets of sin; watch your hearts, from whence are the issues of sin; watch, take heed of sleeping in sin, least you lose your Garments, and be found naked.
10. Stand upon your Watch; when our Saviour had foretold his Disciples of his coming, he exhorts them, and all to watch,