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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
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 10
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2. THE second thing is to speak of the execution of the sentence pronounced by Christ upon the Righteous. Matth, 25. 46. These shall go away into everlasting punishment, There is the execution of the sentence on the wicked. But the Righteous into life eternal, there is the execution of the sentence on the Righteous. And here I shall speak, 1. Of the Righteous going away. 2. Of the Righteous going into life eternal.
1. Concerning the Righteous going away, The wicked shall go away, and the Righteous shall go away too; the wicked shall go, away from Christ and Saints, and the happiness of Heaven; and the Righteous shall go away from Devils and wicked Persons, and the misery of Hell, which with some considerations will be unspeakably comfortable unto them.
1. The righteous shall go away from Devils; Christ doth here redeem them and deliver them from that tyrannical power which the Devil had over them before conversion, yet they are not wholly freed in this life from all his assaults and baits and snares; some of them are much buffered and oppressed by him most part, if not all their days; but at the last day they shall all go away from Satan; the Devil and all his Angels will be locked up in the bottomless Pit, and the righteous will never be molested with any of them any more, however the righteous sometimes are foiled by Satan here, and receive some wounds in their spiritual combat; yet then they will be victorious, and triumph over principalities and powers, and leave them bound in Chains behind them; they shall go away from Devils.
1. The righteous shall go away from Devils; Christ doth here redeem them and deliver them from that tyrannical power which the Devil had over them before conversion, yet they are not wholly freed in this life from all his assaults and baits and snares; some of them are much buffered and oppressed by him most part, if not all their dayes; but at the last day they shall all go away from Sathan; the Devil and all his Angels will be lockt up in the bottomless Pit, and the righteous will never be molested with any of them any more, however the righteous sometimes are foiled by Sathan here, and receive some wounds in their spiritual combat; yet then they will be victorious, and triumph over principalities and powers, and leave them bound in Chains behind them; they shall go away from Devils.