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

2. The second Antecedent to the judgment of the wicked, will be their meeting with Devils: the righteous will meet with Angels to welcome them out of their Graves; the wicked will meet with Devils to entertain them at their resurrection: and then they will not appear to them, like Angels of light, as sometimes here they have done; but like foul Angels of darkness, as they ever were since their first fall: they will not then entertain the wicked with pleasing baits, and sweet alluring temptations, and pretend to be their friends, who consult their good and satisfaction, beyond God himself, the chief good of mankind; as they did when their abode was in the world before: but they will spit forth their venom, and malice, then, in their faces; possibly they may buffet their bodies, and lay painful strokes upon them; surely they will terrify their souls for those sins which they have drawn them unto the commission of; O how will they mock, and deride their folly, and madness for opening their ears to their whispers, for opening their heart so freely, when they have knocked at the door, and enticed them unto sin? then the damned will perceive that the Devils design was their ruin and misery, when the pretence and show was consultation for their good and happiness; that he laboured to please and delight them, not out of love, but malice, that he might undo them: that he lulled them asleep, that they might not perceive their misery, till it was too late; that poison was in his sweetest baits; and that their softest pleasures were Satan's silken cords, by which he was drawing them unto endless woe and bitterness: then they will perceive how the Prince of Darkness hath blinded their eyes, & deluded them; how the old Serpent hath beguiled them through his subtlety, and deceived them▪ how they have been gulled of a Crown and Kingdom they had the proffers […] and were in a capacity to obtain: then they will perceive whose slaves they have been, whilst they were serving divers lusts: that the Devil was their Lord and Master, and led them captive at his will; and now they will meet with ⟨p. 41⟩their Masters, whom they have served, unto their terror & amazement; how will they be affrighted at the apparition of so many Devils about them?

2. The second Antecedent to the judgment of the wicked, will be their meeting with Devils: the righteous will meet with Angels to welcome them out of their Graves; the wicked will meet with Devils to entertain them at their resurrection: and then they will not appear to them, like Angels of light, as sometimes here they have done; but like foul Angels of darkness, as they ever were since their first fall: they will not then entertain the wicked with pleasing baits, and sweet alluring temptations, and pretend to be their friends, who consult their good and satisfaction, beyond God himself, the chief good of mankind; as they did when their abode was in the world before: but they will spit forth their venome, and malice, then, in their faces; possibly they may buffet their bodies, and lay painful strokes upon them; surely they will terrify their soules for those sins which they have drawn them unto the commission of; O how will they mock, and deride their folly, and madness for opening their eares to their whispers, for opening their heart so freely, when they have knockt at the door, and entised them unto sin? then the damned will perceive that the Devils design was their ruine and misery, when the pretence and show was consultation for their good and happiness; that he laboured to please and delight them, not out of love, but malice, that he might undoe them: that he lul'd them asleep, that they might not perceive their misery, till it was too late; that poyson was in his sweetest baits; and that their softest pleasures were Sathans silken cords, by which he was drawing them unto endless wo and bitterness: then they will perceive how the Prince of Darkness hath blinded their eyes, & deluded them; how the old Serpent hath beguiled them through his subtilty, and deceived them how they have been gull'd of a Crown and Kingdome they had the proffers and were in a capacity to obtain: then they will perceive whose slaves they have been, whilst they were serving divers lusts: that the Devil was their Lord and Master, and led them captive at his will; and now they will meet with