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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
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.
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; ⟨p. 161⟩and God being so infinite in power, nothing can hinder the effecting of what he hath determined shall be done.
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; ⟨p. 161⟩and God being so infinite in power, nothing can hinder the effecting of what he hath determined shall be done.