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

What are we the better for our riches and great estate on Earth, for our honour, and high esteem amongst men, for our luscious pleasures and delights, (now vanished and gone) which we bought at so dear a rate, as the loss of our precious and immortal souls, and the forfeiture of an Inheritance in the kingdom• of Heaven? Then they will cry ou•, O be witching world! O deluding Devil! O deceitful hearts and lusts! O what fools and mad men have we been, that we should trample Jewels under our feet like Swine, and in stead of them, put dross and dung into our Cabinet! that we should so greedily drink the sweet poison of sin to the bane and ruin of our souls; and refuse to taste of the Cap of Salvation, which all our days was hold forth unto us! Then they will cry out of their voluptuousness, their covetousness, their pride and haughtiness, and the like lusts, which have kept Christ out of their hearts, and kept them O it of the Kingdom of Heaven.

What are we the better for our riches and great estate on Earth, for our honour, and high esteem amongst men, for our luscious pleasures and delights, (now varished and gone) which we bought at so dear a rate, as the loss of our precious and immortal souls, and the forfeiture of an Inheritance in the kingdom• of Heaven? Then they will cry ou•, O be witching world! O deluding D•vil! O d•c•itfull hearts and lusts! O what fools and mad men have we been, that we should trample Jewels und•r our feet like Swine, and in stead of them, put dross and dang into our Cabinet! that we should so greedily drink the sweet poison of sin to the bane and ruine of our souls; and refuse to taste of the Cap of Salvation, which all our dayes was hold forth unto us! Then they will cry out of their voluptuousness, their covetousness, their pride and haughtiness, and the like lusts, which have kept Christ out of their hearts, and kept them O it of the Kinddome of Heaven.