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

Were not you in a greater unlikelihood of being called effectually, than Drunkards and Adulterers, and the most vicious, who lay more naked to the blow of the Word, & were more ready to receive instruction: you were more forward to reprove my Ministers, than to receive my Ministers, and conviction from them; you could call them Antichristian and false Prophets, though they adhered to and maintained nothing but the truths of my Word; & when I gave them so many seals of their Ministry in the conversion of many souls: you could call them Self-seekers and hirelings, though they gave such evidence of self-denial, […] many of them forsook all that they had rather than they would make a brea•h upon their consciences: you could, some of you intrench upon their office, though you had no tall, nor commission from me, you had the Scripture to discover to you the right way, but you shut your eyes against the light, and chose ways of darkness, and is it not fit that you should go to the place of darkness. Take them Devils, bind them hand and foot.

Were not you in a greater unlikelihood of being called effectually, than Drunkards and Adulterers, and the most vicious, who lay more naked to the blow of the Word, & were more ready to receive instruction: you were more forward to reprove my Ministers, than to receive my Ministers, and conviction from them; you could call them Antichristian and false Prophets, though they adhered to and maintained nothing but the truths of my Word; & when I gave them so many seals of their Ministry in the conversion of many souls: you could call them Self-seekers and ••irelings, though they gave such evidence of self-denial, 〈…〉 many of them forsook all that they had rather than they would make a brea•h upon their consciences: you could, some of you intrench upon their office, though you had no tall, nor commission from me, you had the Scripture to discover to you the right way, but you shat your eyes against the light, and chose ways of darkness, and is it not fit that you should go to the place of darkness. Take them Devils, bind them hand and foot.