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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.
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 […] ⟨p. 6⟩[…] surely Christ must needs come with great power to get victory over such a potent Enemy.
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. compleat 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,