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

1. Awake sinners, Awake! Christ will appear to judgment. Christ will appear, whom you have read of, and heard of, and have had frequent proffers of, but could never be prevailed to accept of; Christ will appear in his glory, in whom you could see no beauty, or desirableness▪ Christ will appear as a Judge, whom you might have had for your Saviour. Sinners, the Judge of the whole world will appear, and can you sleep under the guilt of sin? He will be a most glorious, powerful, wise, holy, righteous, strict, furious, inexorable Judge, as hath been shown. And yet are you secure and fearless? you have heard God's terrible voice in the City, and that hath not awakened you; and will not Christ's appearance to Judgment awaken you neither? You have been asleep under the sound of temporal judgments, and can you sleep under the thoughts of the last judgment, when the punishment, which shall then be inflected, will be eternal?

2. Awake, sinners Awake! Christ will certainly appear to Judgment; if there were only a peradventure of Christs coming to Judgment, methinks it should awaken the guilty, but […] there is a certainty of it, how should it awaken you? as certainly as God is true, as certainly as the Scriptures are his […] as certainly as you are creatures and sinners; so certainly […] the Lord Jesus Christ appear to judge the ungodly World for […] at the last day England hath of late been under the stroke […] several temporal Judgments; and England is in danger of further and •reater calamities; God may […] a more bitter […] into our hands to drink, than yet we have tasted […] the ••• ger of which should awaken secure sinners, because They cannot promise to themselves any shelter at such a time: yet there is a possibility that the Lord may be entreated to spare▪ and put up his Sword, and prevent our ruin, which we have deserved; but the day of Judgment is most certain; God, who cannot change, hath decreed it: God, who cannot lie, […] it; the iniquities of the World, which are great, […] it; therefore it must be, the day will certainly come; […] yet can you sleep in sin? If a Thief knew after he had robbed his neighbour, that he should certainly be taken and judged