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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
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3. Then their faith would be i• vain: because if Christ were still dead, he would not be a meet object for their faith, for then he could not be the Son of God, nor a Mediator between God and man.
3. Then their faith would be i• vain: because if Christ were still dead, he would not be a meet object for their faith, for then he could not be the Son of God, nor a Mediatour between God and man.
4. Then Believers would be yet in their sins; their sins would ⟨p. 158⟩remain un•ardoned; because satisfaction to Gods justice would not have been completed, had the bonds of death still held our Saviour.
4. Then Believers would be yet in their sins; their sins would ⟨p. 158⟩remain un•ardoned; because satisfaction to Gods justice would not have been compleated, had the bonds of death still held our Saviour.
5. Then they which were fallen asleep in Christ would be perished in regard of their bodies, like the beasts when they die; because if Christ were not risen, it would be impossible that they should ever rise any more.