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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 11
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6. Then believers should have hope only in this life; because if Christ were not risen and ascended into Heaven, to prepare room for them there, they could not have any good-grounded hope of ever being received into that place; and by consequence it would follow, that believers, the best of men, upon the earth, would be the most miserable men of all others, because they are exposed to so many sufferings for the sake of Jesus Christ: If they had hope only in this life, they would be most miserable in regard of sorrow, (though not in regard of sin) for their hopes of future glory do support and comfort them under all their afflictions; if they should loose their hopes, they would loose their comforts, and be of all others the most forlorn and sorrowful; it would break their hearts, and bring them to despair. Certainly then Christ is risen, and as certainly shall the dead be raised.
2. The second Argument whereby the Apostle proves the Resurrection, is drawn from the Parallel between the first Adam, and Christ the second Adam, V. 21. &c. Since by man came death by man also shall come the Resurrection; for as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. By Adam sin came into the world, and death by sin, and death passed upon all his posterity, because all have sinned, at least in him: By Christ came righteousness into the world, and by righteousness life▪ and all his posterity shall be raised by him unto eternal life at the last day, because all are partakers of his righteousness.
2. The second Argument whereby the Apostle proves the Resurrection, is drawn from the Paralel between the first Adam, and Christ the second Adam, V. 21. &c. Since by man came death by man also shall come the Resurrection; for as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. By Adam sin came into the world, and death by sin, and death passed upon all his posterity, because all have sinned, at least in him: By Christ came righteousness into the world, and by righteousness life▪ and all his posterity shall be raised by him unto eternal life at the last day, because all are partakers of his righteousness.