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

8. Come forth all ye intemperate and licentious Persons, who have indulged your flesh, and laid no restraint upon your sensual appetite; who have made provision for your flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof: but made no provision for my glory, and took […] care to fulfil my commands: Did you never hear of such a Duty as self-denial, which I required of all my Disciples and Followers? Were you never told that if you followed the Inclinations and obeyed the commands of carnal self, it would be to your ruin and destruction? that bitterness and sorrow would be the issu•• of flesh-pleasing? that lust, if conceived, would bring forth sin, and sin when perfected would bring forth death? Did you never read that if ye lived after the flesh, ye should die, and that your must, through the Spirit, mortify the deeds of the body, otherwise life and happiness could not be obtained? and yet would you […] the […] on the neck of your lusts? if you had no faith, […] ⟨p. 78⟩[…] […] reason neither, to keep you from intemperance? if you […] not live like Christians, would you not live like men? would you needs be brutes, and live as if you were all body, and had no souls of such high Capacity? were you so blind as not to see afar off before this day of Judgment, when I should call you to an account? or to see a little before you, to the day of your death, which would put a conclusion to all your sensual pleasures: Could you bribe and muzzle Conscience, and lay it asleep whilst you take your pleasures? Could you tread reason under feet, and resolve you would not be controlled by any light, or law, or government, from your eager prosecution of your carnal delights.

8. Come forth all ye intemperate and licentious Persons, who have indulged your flesh, and laid no restraint upon your sensual appetite; who have made provision for your flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof: but made no provision for my glory, and took 〈…〉 care to fulfil my commands: Did you never hear of such a Duty as self-denial, which I required of all my Disciples and Followers? Were you never told that if you followed the Inclinations and obeyed the commands of carnal self, it would be to your ruine and destruction? that bitterness and sorrow would be the issu•• of flesh-pleasing? that lust, if conceived, would bring forth sin, and sin when perfected would bring forth death? Did you never read that if ye lived after the flesh, ye should die, and that your must, through the Spirit, martifie the deeds of the body, otherwise life and happiness could not be obtained? and yet would you the on the neck of your lusts? if you had no faith,