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

[…] appearance of Christ was in the flesh, above […] hundred years ago in the Land of Judea, unto […] of the Jews, the only-then-visible-Church upon […]. There it was that the Word was made Flesh; and […] people he dwelt for a while, some or whom […] the glory as of the only begotten of the […] of grace and truth. There it was that the Eter•••• […] God was made Man, being conceived miraculous•••• […] of the Holy Ghost, in the Womb of the Vir•••• […] without the contamination of Original Sin, which […] Conceptions do introduce: His real Mother, & […] Father were both of the Tribe of Judah, and of the […] of Daniel, and he was born in the Town of Bethlehem, […] ••ing to the Scripture predictions; who, after he had […] […] thirty years in obscurity, was baptized by John Baptist, […] forerunner and Harbinger; in whose Baptism, when John saw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit of God descen•••• like a Do•e, and lighting upon him, and heard the ⟨p. 3⟩voice from the excellent glory, saying. This is my belo•••• Son, in whom I am well pleased: He gave his testimony concerning him, that he was the Son of God, and the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the World. Who […] his own baptism and temptation, and John's Imprisonment• made his appearance more openly unto Israel, shewi […] […] his glory, not in outward pomp and splendour, […] in […] high, eminent, and wonderful manner, altogether […] ceeding the imitation of any Earthly Monarch in […]