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

4. The wicked that are alive on the earth, at the second appearance of Christ▪ shall see the righteous that are dead, arise out of their Graves with marvellous beauty and joy: and those which are alive wonderfully changed in the likeness and fashion of Christ; and all of them suddenly caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; which sight will be fearful and amazing to them, when they perceive themselves to be left behind We read Rev. 11. 12, 13. When the two witnesses after they had laid dead for some time had the spirit of life put into them, and they stood upon their feet, and were called up, and ascended up into Heaven: it is said their enemies beheld them, and great fear fell upon them: so when all the witnesses and servants of the Lord have a spirit of life put into them, and stand upon their feet, and be called up, and caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord: their enemies, and the wicked on the earth will behold them, and great fear will fall upon them. But, O the fear and trouble which will be upon the spirits of those unbelieving Christ-less, graceless sinners, whose abode shall at that day be amongst the believers, and some of them linked in the nearest relations to them, when their believing relations shall be caught away from them, and carried up into the air, with the rest of the glorious train of Saints, when themselves shall remain below upon the earth: It is said, that at the time of Christs coming, Luke 17. 34, 35, 36. Two men shall be in one bed, the one shall be taken, the other left: two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other left: two men shall be together in the field, the one shall be taken the other left Friends will be together at that day as at other times, not expecting Christs coming, and it may be less expecting it than before they did: some will be in fields together, some in houses together, some will be in beds together▪ some will be in Churches together• ••t may be Ministers […] and people hearing, as you are hearing me this […] […].

4. The wicked that are alive on the earth, at the second appearance of Christ▪ shall see the righteous that are dead, arise out of their Graves with marvellous beauty and joy: and those which are alive wonderfully changed in the likeness and fashion of Christ; and all of them suddenly caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; which sight will be fearful and amazing to them, when they perceive themselves to be left behind We read