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

7. Come forth ye Persecutors of my Disciples: Was it not enough for you to mock them: but you must persecute them too: Was it not enough for you to persecute them with the tongue, but you m•st persecute them with the hand: What, could you betray them like Judas for a piece of money, or ou• of malice, which was worse: Could you disturb them in their service and worship of […], when they were praying for your Conversion and Salvation: Could you hale and drag them to Prison, who endeavoured to keep you out of the Prison of Hell, could you seek the ruin of such as were the best Friends of your Souls: when you never received injury from them, […] you be so envious to them: do you know whom you persecuted: It was me, it was me whom ye persecuted, when you persecuted my Disciples: it was me whom you wounded through the sides, it was me you betrayed in betraying them: it was me ye imprisoned, in imprisoning them: it was me ye spurned at, when ye lifted up the heel against then: and did you ever think to prosper ⟨p. 77⟩in this way? You, you, have been above all other […] upon the Earth, my professed Enemies, and most like […] Father the Devil; come ye Wretches, gird up your […] like men: gather your forces together: put on strength & courage, if you have any: and lift up your hand, if you dare against me; do you find strength to fail you now, and your forces too weak to make resistance? and were you so foolish an to engage in Battle, where you might have known, you should certainly be conquered at the last? Doth your Courage fail upon the sight of the Captain? […] should you not have been afraid to touch my anointed ones, my lifted Soldiers? you served the Devil, and fought under his Banner against me and mine, and can be deliver you now out of my hand? can he defend you against my rage and fury? Or would he do it, if it lay in his power? Had you ever more spite and malice against my People, than the Devil had against you, in setting you about persecution Work? Did not he design your ruin hereby? did not he think of this day, and on purpose draw you to this sin▪ that ye might be the more horribly tormented? and doth not he with his Angels wait now for you, that […] may drag you into torments? Take them Devils, bind […] hand and foot▪