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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 9
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[…] They shall go away from Jesus Christ; the Righteous are at his side, and shall remain with him; but the wicked shall go away from him; the righteous shall go with him, and abide with him, where he is, there they shall be also; they shall be for ever with the Lord; but the wicked, must go away, and be eternally separated from his presence. The righteous shall behold his glory, and share in it; they shall see the smiles of his face, and […] ⟨p. 95⟩entertained by him with unexpressible love; but the wicked shall be thrust out of his presence with frowns and indignation: it will be one great part of the misery of the wicked, that they shall go away from so glorious a person as the Lord Jesus Christ.
〈…〉 They shall go away from Jesus Christ; the Righteous are at his side, and shall remain with him; but the wicked shall go away from him; the righteous shall go with him, and abide with him, where he is, there they shall be also; they shall be for ever with the Lord; but the wicked, must go away, and be eternally seperated from his presence. The righteous shall behold his glory, and share in it; they shall see the smiles of his face, and 〈…〉 ⟨p. 95⟩entertained by him with unexpressible love; but the wicked shall be thrust out of his presence with frowns and indignation: it will be one great part of the misery of the wicked, that they shall go away from so glorious a person as the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. They shall go away from the Saints; now some of them are mingled with Gods people, the Tares and the wheat grow up together; the sheep and the goats feed in the same pasture; and though it was bitter to the wicked to dwell with the righteous, because of the contradiction, which was in their lives, to their lusts; yet then it will be more bitter to them to be excluded their society, because then they will perceive their excellency with admiration: when they see them shine with such beauty, and rejoice with Songs of triumph, and they must be gone away from them; this will fill their hearts with racking envy, and tormer them unspeakably.