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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 8
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were not […] […] renders and tearers of my Church: was it not […] of you that the ways of truth were evil spoken […] Men: were not those without prejudiced against […] […] ways, because of your delusions, which made so forward a profession▪ Suppose I permitted some of mine so mistake in c•rcumstantials, was this a just excuse for your errors in fundamentals, when the word was open for you to in form your selves in the truth: did not you wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction: Suppose you dented your selves some things, were they those things that I commanded: supp••• suffered some things in your way, do you hope for a reward for sufferings, which I never called you unto, and which did but so much the mo•• harden your party, and promote your delusion: […] ⟨p. 91⟩know what a share you were hampered in, so soon as your put your foot in the way of error, and turned aside from that old strait, narrow way of my Word and Ordinances, which have brought so many to Heaven:
were not 〈…〉 〈…〉 renders and tearers of my Church: was it not 〈…〉 of you that the ways of truth were evil spoken 〈…〉 Men: were not those without prejudiced against 〈…〉 〈…〉 wayes, because of your delusions, which made so forward a profession▪ Suppose I permitted some of mine so mistake in c•rcumstantials, was this a just excuse for your errours in fundamentals, when the word was open for you to in form your selves in the truth: did not you wrest the Scriptures to your own destruction: Suppose you dented your selves some things, were they those things that I commanded: supp••• suffered some things in your way, do you hope for a reward for sufferings, which I never called you unto, and which did but so much the mo•• harden your party, and promote your delusion: