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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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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.
1. The certainty of the last judgment is evident from Scripture, Heb 6 2. 2 Pet. 3. 9. Rom 25,6,7. and elsewhere frequently, and I shall further prove it by Scripture Arguments.
It doth appear there will be a day of Judgment,
1. From Gods appointment. Acts 17. 31. He hath appointed a day wherein he will Judge the world in righteousness. God appointed the Creation of the world, which accordingly he effected: he appointed the reconciliation of the world to himself, which he brought to pass; and having appointed the Judgment of the world it shall as certainly be brought […] pass in its day. Nothing can frustrate God's appointments, God being so infinite in wisdom, doth not appoint any thing about which there shall be any reason to alter his determination;