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

5. Christ will be a most impartial and st•••t Judge: he will •e most impartial in regard of the persons whom he •ill judge; the high degree and quality of men upon the earth will be of no account with him; the rich will be no more regarded than the poor: nor the highest Princes ⟨p. 54⟩more than the meanest of their subjects; Death levels all men, and puts a conclusion unto all earthly dignities; and in the resurrection all will stand upon even ground: now some Lords and great men may murder, and oppress, and break Laws, and through favour escape punishment; which crimes, if meaner persons had been found guitly of, would have cost them their lives: but Christ will have no more favour for a Lord, or a Knight, or a Gentleman, no nor for a King or a Queen, or the greatest Lady, than for the most contemptible beggar; he will not accept of the persons of any, and connive at the sins of some, which those that should reprove them now can wink at, as if they were no faults: because the faults of such persons are as high, whose favour they desire, and from whom they might receive damage and dis-esteem should they be▪ plain and faithful: but Christ he will neither need the favour nor fear the anger of any: and he will not court and flatter any because of their Nobility and greatness; but impartially judge the highest and greatest, by the same rule as he will do the lowest and meanest: and Christ will be a most strict Judge in regard of crimes: he will bring forth all the sin• of the wicked to light; not one sin which they have committed from the day of their birth to the hour of their dissolution, but shall be had in remembrance, and be brought unto public view, when the Lord shall, enter into judgement with […] ungodly world: some of the wicked do sin more secret••• they have sweet morsels rolling under their tongues, […] are not perceived: they have their Delilahs in cor••• who are not known▪ they shroud themselves under the shadow of the wings of the night, that they might conceal some of their wicked lend practices, which should they […] found out in, would fill their cheeks with shame and blushing: but Christ will call them at the last day to a ct account, and bring to light the bidden things of Darkness […] Cor. 4 5. And O the contempt and confusion which they will […] covered with when all their shameful and abominable […] shall be made manifest.