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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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2. And secondly, it is as certain that Christ shall raise them. I will raise them at the last day. Joh. 6. 40. this is spoken of believers; but it is spoken also of all, Joh 5. 28,29. The hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves; shall hear his voice and come forth: they that have done good to the Resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, to the Resurrection of damnation.
Hence it strongly follows, If the dead shall certainly be raised, and the Lord Jesus shall raise them, that the appearance of Christ to do it, is certain.
3. Argu. The third Argument to prove the certainty of Christ's second appearance may be drawn from the certainty of the last general Judgment.
If there will certainly be a day of general Judgment, and the Lord Jesus Christ will be the Judge; then the second appearance of Christ is certain: But there will be certainly a day of general Judgment, and the Lord Jesus Christ will be the Judge; therefore Christs appearance is certain.