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

2. Gods goodness, and bounty, and patience will accuse them, when they are thus arraigned and indicted by his justice which will aggravate their sins: I nourished & brought up these creatures, like Children, and yet they rebelled against me: I spared them as a man spareth his Son which •erveth him, and yet they had no regard of me: I delivered them in six troubles, and in seven: recovered them often from a sick bed; and brought them back from the Grave, when they were ready to go down into the Pit: and yet they knew not that I healed them, and were so much the more disobedient unto me: I loaded them with mercies, and yet they loaded me with iniquities: I would have led them to repentance by my patience and goodness, but they were the more impenitent and hard-hearted, and resolved to do evil: I stretched forth my hand all the day long to these disobedient and gain-saying Creatures, and would have received them, had they returned into the arms of my mercy, but nothing would win and persuade them to leave their sins, and come unto me: and now my patience is spent, and long-suffering is at an end, and bowels shut up against them for ever: and let them now smart for all their abuses, affronts and contempts, which they have offered to me.

2. Gods goodness, and bounty, and patience will accuse them, when they are thus arraigned and indicted by his justice which will aggravate their sins: I nourished & brought up these creatures, like Children, and yet they rebelled against me: I spared them as a man spareth his Son which •erveth him, and yet they had no regard of me: I delivered them in six troubles, and in seven: recovered them often from a sick bed; and brought them back from the Grave, when they were ready to go down into the Pit: and yet they knew not that I healed them, and were so much the more disobedient unto me: I loaded them with mercies, and yet they loaded me with iniquities: I would have led them to repentance by my patience and goodness, but they were the more impenitent and hard-hearted, and resolved to do evil: I stretched forth my hand all the day long to these disobedient and gain-saying Creatures, and would have received them, had they returned into the arms of my mercy, but nothing would win and perswade them to leave their sins, and come unto me: and now my patience is spent, and long-suffering is at an end, and bowels shut up against them for ever: and let them now smart for all their abuses, affronts and contempts, which they have offered to me.