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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 3
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.
• Christ at his second appearance will come with Power, with great power; he hath all power put into his hands in Heaven and in Earth now, and doth exercise it more secretly; then he will exercise it more visibly and apparently […] […] sight of the whole World. To give instance.
• Christ at his second appearance will come with Power, with great power; he hath all power put into his hands in Heaven and in Earth now, and doth exercise it more secretly; then he will exercise it more visibly and apparently 〈…〉 〈…〉 sight of the whole World. To give instance.
1. He will come with power over Death. Death […] great power since the Fall, and is the greatest […] in the world; Death hath made universal […] the Sons and Daughters of Adam ([…] excepted) which lived in former Gene••• […] them captive, binding their faces in […] hands and their feet, and clapping them […] in the grave, and none have been […] yea, Death did assail the Lord of Life […] victory for a while, and shut him […] loose before three days were at an […] and gave death a deep wound, as it […] stroke in his Resurrection, 2 Tim. […] complete victory which afterward […] Enemy of Mankind. Now when […] appearance in the world at the last […] power over Death, he will lead […] his first hands on Death▪ and trea• […] feet, and strip him of all his force […] been treasuring up for so many […] keys of the grave out of the hand […] his chains, and bring out all his […] enlargement: as it is said, Hos. 13. […] from the power of the Grave; I will […] O Death! I will be thy plague! O Grave! […] •••• ction! And it is said, 1 Cor 15. 25, 26. that […] •e put under the feet of Jesus Christ, and the last […] e shall destroy is Death. And v 54. When this mortal […] on immortality, then Death shall be swallowed up […]