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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
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 13: The Application.
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1. Sinners, consider he greatness of the punishment; you […] dwell with devouring Fire, and inhabit most horrible ••••ings; and think with your selves how you will be able to endure, to have those bodies (unto whom the prick of […] •in is so irksome, and a little scorch of a culinary Fire […] so painful cast into the great Furnace of Fire, which God will kindle with his breath; which will turn them, it may he, into a burning Coal, that shall not waste, neither ever be consumed; be sure will torment them with a thousand-fold […] acute sense of pain, than the body is capable now of •eeling, under the most exquisite torments; think what the […] whelming grief, what the horrible anxiety, what the despainful agonies, what the hideous terror and unexpressible anguish of your souls will be under the immediate sense of Gods wrath and indignation, and the thoughts of that glory and happiness of Heaven (once proffered unto you, but refused by you) which you will then perceive your selves but out from for ever.
1. Sinners, consider he greatness of the punishment; you 〈…〉 dwell with devouring Fire, and inhabit most horrible ••••ings; and think with your selves how you will be able to endure, to have those bodies (unto whom the prick of 〈…〉 •in is so irksome, and a little scorch of a culinary Fire 〈…〉 so painful cast into the great Furnace of Fire, which God will kindle with his breath; which will turn them, it may he, into a burning Coal, that shall not waste, neither ever be consumed; be sure will torment them with a thousand-fold 〈…〉 accute sense of pain, than the body is capable now of •eeling, under the most exquisite torments; think what the 〈…〉 whelming grief, what the horrible anxiety, what the despainful agonies, what the hideous torrour and unexpressible anguish of your souls will be under the immediate sense of Gods wrath and indignation, and the thoughts of that glory and happiness of Heaven (once proffered unto you, but refused by you) which you will then perceive your selves but out from for ever.