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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 11
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. From the Prediction thereof in the Scriptures, as his death was foretold, so also his resurrection was foretold in the type of Jonab's being cast out of the belly of the whole on the third day.
2. From the testimony of those persons to whom the Lord Jesus Christ did appear after his Resurrection, namely of Cephas, all the Apostles, above five hundred brethren at once, who law him before his Ascension; and last of all, in that he was seen by himself upon the way to Damascus after his Ascension: all which witnesses did with one mouth confirm the truth of Christs Resurrection.
3. From the absurdities which would follow if Christ were not risen.
1. The Apostles would then be found false witnesses and the Spirit of God which spake in them, would be a false spirit, which is impossible.