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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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Naturalists tell us of a Phoenix which riseth out of the shes, into which she had burned her self before; but i• […] more certain, that some birds lie in holes dead all the win••, and get life again in the Summer; we see Plants, Herbs, •lowers, and the like wither in the Winter, and spring forth gain when the cold weather is gone; we see the Sun […] night, and arise again in the morning; and we ourselves ⟨p. 160⟩as we have an Emblem of death upon us when we are asleep, so our awaking again, and arising from our beds, it an Emblem of our Resurrection at the last day. It is certain that the dead shall be raised▪ which hath been proved.
Naturalists tell us of a Phoenix which riseth out of the shes, into which she had burned her self before; but i• 〈…〉 more certain, that some birds lie in holes dead all the win••, and get life again in the Summer; we see Plants, Herbs, •lowers, and the like wither in the Winter, and spring forth gain when the cold weather is gone; we see the Sun 〈…〉 night, and arise again in the morning; and we ourselves ⟨p. 160⟩as we have an Emblem of death upon us when we are asleep, so our awaking again, and arising from our beds, it an Emblem of our Resurrection at the last day. It is certain that the dead shall be raised▪ which hath been proved.
2. And secondly, it is as certain that Christ shall raise them. I will raise them at the last day.