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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
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2. Christ will come at his second […] At his first appearance, he came […] Servant of Servants; at his second […] like a Lord, yea, like a Lord •f […] […] glory; at his first appearance he was […] •• nour, and a chain of contempt was […] second appearance he will be […] •• nour, and most excellent Majesty […] his first appearance his Deity was […] masked with infirm flesh, his brigh•• […] though sometimes some beams did […] dazzling lustre, as made Peter fall at […] from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord […] in the Ship to worship him, acknow••• […] art the Son of God▪ Mat, 14. 3•. And […] with fear and astonishment; but he was […] that few knew him at all, none knew much […] was so disrobed, and so meanly attired, and […] said the Princes of this world knew hi•• not; […] they would have laid down their Sceptres at his feet; […] ⟨p. 8⟩[…] known him, they would not have dared so disgracefully […] have crucified the Lord of Glory, 1 Cor. 2. •. But at his second appearance, the Veil will be so drawn aside, that the Deity of Christ will shine forth with amazing splendour to […] view of the whole world: his humane nature will be glorious beyond any other creature; but oh how glorious ill his Divin• Nature be, when the eyes of the whole world ••ll be opened to see God in such a way, as now we are not a•• to conceive? He will appear in the brightness of his […] so that they which see him will see the Father […], Authority, Dominion, Power, Holiness, […] of the Father, will be like so many spark••• […] the Crown of Christ at his appearance: […] the royalty and surpassing excellency […] when he comes down out of his Fathers Pa•••• […] he will come in great glory, God will […] and with him; the Throne of God will […] will be below, Heaven will be […] Christ is, there is Heaven, there is […] to be seen: he will come in great […] such glory seen upon the face of […] of man behold such a sight […]: We read of great and pompous shows, […] made in their Triumphs: but ne […] in the world, as there will be […] Jesus Christ, when he cometh trium […], when he cometh with the spoils […], making a show of them openly […] dient glory. A little further to set […].