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

they will see the Crown which will […] upon the head of the Righteous, which will have more worth then in their esteem, than all the Crowns and Sceptres of the greatest Kings upon the earth; then the will be clearly convinced that the choicest treasures were in Heaven, and the sweetest delights were to come, and the thoughts of missing this Crown and glory, such treasures and sweetness, will tear their very hearts: they must go away from Heaven and Happiness.

they will see the Crown which will 〈…〉 upon the head of the Righteous, which will have more worth then in their esteem, than all the Crowns and S••pters of the greatest Kings upon the earth; then the will be clearly conv••ced that the choicest treasures were in Heaven, and the sweetest delights were to come, and the thoughts of missing this Crown and glory, such treasures and sweetness, will tear their very hearts: they must go away from Heaven and Happiness.

2. In going away they shall remember the capacity which they had once of obtaining this happiness; if they had been b•uits indeed, and had capacity for a […] life only; and grace and glory had been […] so far beyond their reach, that it had been in possible for them to attain, it; it would not much trouble them to lose it, whatever other miseries they should endure; but they were capable of the beginnings of Heaven in the life of grace, and the completing of their happiness in glory; they will remember that they had souls endued with reason, and hereby advanced to a higher capacity than beasts; that they had minds capable of divine contemplations, and hearts capable of divine affection; that they had wills which might have chosen God for their portion, and Heaven for their heritance; that they had desires, and loves, and hopes, and joys, which if they had wrought God-ward, and Christ-ward, as they did toward the creature, if they had wrought up-ward and heaven-ward, as they did down-ward and toward the earth, and earthly things, they might have been happy for ever; they will see that others, who had the same natures as they had, and were guilty at first of as great sins, as they had committed, yet repented and turned, believed and reformed, were changed and saved; and with unexpressible vexation they will think that thus it might have been with them, if they had not been fools,