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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
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6. Concerning the Conviction. And here I shall speak of the conviction of some particular sinners; especially of such who have lived in the days and places, where the Gospel hath been preached, whom the Lord Jesus Christ with upbraiding having so full evidence with convict of their •ins To set this out the more lively.
6. Concerning the Conviction. And here I shall speak of the conviction of some particular sinners; especially of such who have lived in the days and places, where the Gospel hath been preached, whom the Lord Jesus Christ with upbraiding haveing so full evidence with convict of their •ins To set this out the more lively.
Suppose that this very day were the day of Judgment; and in this very Church were the Judgment seat: that here were a great white Throne, and the Lord Jesus Christ himself sitting upon it in his glory, with millions of holy Angels about him, and all the Saints in white at his right hand: and on his left, all the wicked gathered together into one body, as it will be at the last day: And the Judge should cry with a loud voice, Bring the prisoners to the Bay, Bring the sinners to judgment, and so summon and convict particular sinners.
1. Come forth all ye ignorant persons: who have not known the Father, nor me, nor the mysteries of salvation, however clearly revealed in my Word; who lived in darkness, and loved darkness, and hated the light, least your deed▪ should thereby have been reproved: What dark in a […] ignorant in London! in a place of so much knowledge and instruction! Did not Parents teach you when you were young? how is it that you would not be taught? If Parents neglected to instruct you, had you not Ministers, […] were ready to do it? How is it that you have not […]? If knowledge did not offer it self to you, why did you not seek after it? why did not you learn of your selves? was there any thing in the world that did concern you more to know? was not the knowledge of me, and my ways, […] the looking after? had you a capacity for other knowledge, and not for this? have not others learnt, who were naturally