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

he will shut his •ares against their prayers, and hide his eyes from their misery: they had promises enough whilst they lived, but they did not regard them, they did not believe and apply them: and now nothing but threatenings belong •o them, and remain for them: Christ often cried to them by his Ministers, and moved them by his Spirit to open the Door of their hearts, and give him room and entertainment: but they shut their •ares and hearts against him: and now Christ will shut his ears, and ⟨p. 58⟩the Door of meter, and Heaven against them. He will be inexorable. Thus concerning the Judge of the wicked.

he will shut his •ares against their prayers, and hide his eyes from their misery: they had promises enough whilst they lived, but they did not regard them, they did not believe and apply them: and now nothing but threatnings belong •o them, and remain for them: Christ often cryed to them by his Ministers, and moved them by his Spirit to open the Door of their hearts, and give him room and entertainment: but they shut their •ares and hearts against him: and now Christ will shut his eares, and ⟨p. 58⟩the Door of meter, and Heaven against them. He will be inexorable. Thus concerning the Judge of the wicked.

2. The Assessors, or thos•• which shall sit with Christ in the judgment of the wicked will be the righteous. This promise the Lord makes particularly and especially to the twelve Apostles, Matth▪ 19. 28. Verily I say unto you, that ye which followed me (that have denied your selves, and parted with all, and taken up your Cross, and followed me) in the Regeneration, (or restitution of all things, when the Day of Resurrection doth come) and the son of Man shall sit on the Throne of his glory, (when I shall sit upon my judgment Seat, and gather all Nations before my Bar, to receive their doom) Tee shall sit on Twelve Thrones, Judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and though the Apostles of Christ will be especially honoured, and exalted in the day of Judgment, and have seats, or degrees of dignity above others: yet this honour so shall all the Saints have, to sit with Christ in Judgment, 1. […]. 6. 2. Do ye not know that Saints shall judge the World? They judge and condemn the sins of the wicked world now, […] their holy conversation: and they will judge and condemn […] […] of the wicked at the last day, by their approbati of Christs Judgment. The crimes of the wicked will be an'd before the righteous: their secret sins will be ripped up and made manifest unto them: they will not only be brought in as accusers and witnesses against some of the wicked, of which I shall speak by and by: but also they will join with Christ in the examination of all the wicked: and they will also approve of Christs justice and righteousness in the condemning of sinners for their sins, and when Christ doth pronounce the sentence of condemnation upon them, Depart from me ye cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels, they will join with him, and approve of this sentence: it may be they will with one voice say, even […] […] men: or with aloud shout accompany Christs words, saying Depart ye cursed into Everlasting Fire. A strange turn and change of things will there be at that day: Felix, who late