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

1. Christ will condemn such as are Carnal; I mean such as are in the flesh, such as a•e in the state of nature, such as never were regenerated or born again by the Word and Spirit; as never have had experience of a work of grace upon their hearts; such as are blind, and never had their eyes opened to see their sin, and their Saviour, who are ••••filed up in the darkness and hoodwinked with the veil of ignorance and unbelief, and upon whose eyes there are such thick scales, that the glorious light of the Gospel hath never been discerned by them in a spiritual and saving way; such who are asleep, and never had their consciences awakened out of their carnal security, whose consciences are feared as with a hot I•on, and permit them to sin with little check o• control: such who are dead in sin, and never were quickened by the Spirit of life; such as are slaves to their lusts▪ and under the reigning power of sin, and never were delivered from this worse than Turkish bondage; that never were converted, and savingly changed; never were humbled and emptied of themselves, never truly repented, and mourned for sin, never were powerfully drawn unto, and savingly closed with Jesus Christ; that never were renewed in their minds and hearts, transformed after the Image of God, transplanted into the garden of the Lord, […] engrafted into the new stock; such in whom all old things remain, and are wholly carnal, in the same state in which they were first born; their persons will all be conde•••• by the Judge▪ John 3. 3. Matth. 13. 3. Rom. 8. 13. 2 […] 5. •. Eph 4 22,23,24. 1 Cor. 15. 50. Matth. 5. 8. Heb. 14. 14. […] 13. 3. […]. 21. 27.