Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

besides the impressions which the Fire of Hell will have upon them. The foul will find nothing in the body which will give it any delight or ease, or in the least contribute unto the assuagement ⟨p. 39⟩of its anguish: it will return into the Body as in a Prison or Dungeon, where there is no pleasure to be found, and if the body be black, how black will the soul be, after so long abode with foul Devils in the lower Region of darkness? And when such soul souls and such vile bodies meet What a meeting! What a greeting will there be! We may fancy a kind of language to be between them, at that day. The soul to the body, come out of thy hole thou filthy dunghill flesh, for the pampering and pleasing of whom, I have lost my self for ever: who hast stolen away my time, and thoughts, and heart from God and Christ, and Heavenly things, to •eed, and clothe, and cherish thee, and make provisions to satisfy thy base deceitful lusts: when I should have been making provision for thine and mine everlasting happiness. Awake and come forth of the dust, thou bewitching dirty flesh, who didst lull me asleep so long in my pleasing chains, until thou didst suddenly open thy doors & thrust me out, where I was awakened in torments before I was aware, now I must come into thy doors again, that thou mayst share, and taste the bitter issue of sinful pleasures and delights. And O how will the body be affrighted, so soon as the foul is entered! never did the foul taste so much of the bodies delights, as the body will then feel of the souls anguish. The body to the soul: And hast thou found me out O my enemy? couldst not thou have let me alone to lie still at rest in this sweet sleep? Hast thou used me as a slave, and employed all my members as servants of iniquity, and unrighteousness, and art thou now come to torment me? and is this the fruit of all the pleasures we have taken together? shouldst not thou have been more wise, and provided better for thy self and me? O what cries and shrieks will the Tongue give forth, so soon as it hath recovered […] […]! O what fearful amazing sights will there appear before the eyes, so soon as they are opened, when they first peep out of the Grave, and sinners see Heaven and Earth on fire about them, and Christ coming in flaming fire, to take vengeance upon them?

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