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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 9
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when they have spent the time of as many years in Hell as there are Stars in the Firmament, Sands on the Sea shore, and Moats in the Sun, their torment will be as it were beginning, and no nearer a conclusion, than the first day they were cast into that place. Who can express this eternity? when we la•ch• forth out thoughts in the consideration thereof, we loss them quickly; it being such a deep which cannot be fathomed, such a vast Ocean which cannot he measured; yet a little to extend your thoughts in the consideration of the Eternity of the wickeds punishment. I shall, by one or two suppositions illustrate something of the vastness hereof.
when they have spent the time of as many years in Hell as there are Stars in the Firmament, Sands on the Sea shore, and Moats in the Sun, their torment will be as it were beginning, and no nearer a conclusion, than the first day they were cast into that place. Who can express this e•ernity? when we la•ch• forth out thoughts in the consideration thereof, we loss them quickly; it being such a deep which cannot be fathomed, such a vast Ocean which cannot he measured; yet a little to extend your thoughts in the consideration of the Eternity of the wickeds punishment. I shall, by one or two suppositions illustrate something of the vastness hereof.
Suppose that this globe of Earth on which we tread were hollow, and that it were filled with great folio Books, as full as it could hold; and moreover there were Books; heaped up upon it to fill the whole circumference of the dire round about i•; yea that the whole space of place to the uttermost verge of the Empyrean Heavens were filled with Books; and all this vast number of Books were filled with figures in the highest degree of multiplication; O what a number of Books would there be in the whole space of place? what a number of figures in these Books and what a vast number would there be deciphered by these figures? A bit of paper half as broad as an half […]