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

if we had cast away all our transgressions, and cast away our own righteousness, and rolled our selves wholly upon Jesus Christ, and acted faith upon him and the promises of this Kingdom, and walked in the narrow way which we seemed to walk in, we might now have been made possessors hereof, and shined amongst yonder glorious Saints, some of whom were our companions, and hoped for our company, and wonder to see us separated from them; But alas! we were slothful and careless; we were unwatchful and idle, our pains was more to appear Religious, than be Religious; we had some lusts which lay nearer our heart than Jesus Christ; we did some things with seeming vigour, but carnal motives were the chief incentives to our duties; and how ever lifeless, faithless, and empty of true grace they were, yet we trusted in them, and made them our Saviour, and never were brought clear off from our own bottom, unto a closure with Jesus Christ, and we have •ool'd away our Salvation, and made our selves unworthy of e••• life, Deservedly, Deservedly do we lose this Crown; for our folly! O that we had been sincere, and thorough Christians!

if we had cast away all our transgressions, and cast away our own righteousness, and r•wled our selves wholly upon Jesus Christ, and acted faith upon him and the promises of this Kingdom, and walked in the narrow way which we seemed to walk in, we might now have been made possessours hereof, and shined amongst yonder glorious Saints, some of whom were our companions, and hoped for our company, and wonder to see us separated from them; But alas! we were ••oathfull and carel•ss; we were unwatchfull and idle, our pains was more to appear Religious, than be Religious; we had some lusts which lay nearer our heart than Jesus Christ; we did some things with seeming vigour, but carnal motives were the chief incentives to our duties; and how ever lifeless, faithless, and empty of true grace they were, yet we trusted in them, and made them our Saviour, and never were brought clear off from our own bottom, unto a closure with Jesus Christ, and we have •ool'd away our Salvation, and made our selves unworthy of e••• life, Deservedly, Deservedly do we lose this Crown; for our folly! O that we had been sincere, and thorough Christians!