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

3. Awake sinners, Awake! Christ will Quickly appear to Judgment. The coming of the Lord draweth nigh▪ the Judge fundeth at the Door; the Lord will suddenly come down; when you least expect it, the Lord may be here; and can you sleep, when the appearance of Christ is so sure, and so near too? can you sl•moer, when your judgment lingereth not, and your damnation slumbereth not? If the day of general Judgment should be protracted for some time longer, until all the Elect be gathered, and the things foretold in the Word, be fulfilled; yet your time for preparation may be almost spent, you may suddenly go down into your Graves, where there is no operation; and can you sleep in sin, when you are liable every day to the stroke of death, which will […] you off from all opportunities of making your peace with God for •ver, and deliver you up at the last day into the hands of the Judge, under the same guilt as it found you when it first laid ••s arrest upon you?

3. Awake sinners, Awake! Christ will Quickly appear to Judgment. The coming of the Lord draweth nigh▪ the Judge •undeth at the Door; the Lord will suddenly come down; when you least expect it, the Lord may be here; and can you sleep, when the appearance of Christ is so sure, and so neer too? can you sl•moer, when your judgment lingr•th not, and your damnation slumbreth not? If the day of general Judgment should be protracted for some time longer, untill all the Elect be gathered, and the things foretold in the Word, be fulfilled; yet your time for preparation may be almost spent, you may suddenly go down into your Graves, where there is no operation; and can you sleep in sin, when you are liable every day to the stroke of death, which will 〈…〉 you off from all opportunities of making your peace with God for •ver, and deliver you up at the last day into the hands of the Judge, under the same guilt as it found you when it first laid ••s arrest upon you?