Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

3. The third thing proved, is to show that the Lord Jesus Christ will quickly appear, that is, 1. He will come within a short time. 2. He will come suddenly and unexpectedly, when he doth appear.

3. THe third thing proved, is to shew that the Lord Jesus Christ will quickly appear, that is, 1. He will come within a short time. 2. He will come suddenly and unexpectedly, when he doth appear.

1. Christ will come quickly, that is, within a short time. Heb. 1. 37. Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. He that shall come will come, there […] the certainty of his coming, and […] a little while, he will come, and will not tarry, there is the speediness of his coming. The Lord is at hand, Philip. 4. 5. The •••ing of the Lord draweth, nigh, James 5. 8. The Judge sta••eth at the […], •ers. •9. The end of all things is at hand, 1 Pet. 4. 7. Therefore ⟨p. 164⟩our days are called the last days. 2 Tim 3 1. And upon us the ends of the World are come, 1 Cor. 10, 11. We live in the end of the World, in the last days, in the old age thereof. The World hath as i• were three ages, the youth, the middle age, and the old age 3. the Youth of the World was from the creation to the Flood, the middle age from the Flood to the first coming of Christ; the old A•• from the first coming of Christ to the second coming, the old age and last days of the World began in the Apostles time, now many of them are spent, and we are come not only to the declining years, but also to the decrepit age of the World; and if the Lord Jesus Christ were to come shortly in the days of the Apostle, much, more shortly will he come now, when so many years are past since the Scripture was writ, and these things foretold.