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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 13: The Application.
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3. Sinners, consider the sureness of the punishment of Hell▪ it is m•st certain that God hath prepared such a punishment and it is certain that you shall endure this punishment, if you abide under the guilt, and persevere in the way of sin, which you are now walking in; God hath threatened this punishment, and, his justice doth require it, and his truth doth engage him to execute his threatened wrath, and inflect this deserved punishment upon you; and can you then have the least hopes to escape it? will God, can God prove a••yar, to save you from the torments of Hell? Is it not equal that you should reap that which you have sown, that you should gather and taste the bitter fruits of your own evil ways? if you sow to the flesh, will not torment be the fruit hereof? if you sow sin, will not you reap Hell?
3. Sinners, consider the sureness of the punishment of Hell▪ it is m•st certain that God hath prepared such a punishment and it is certain that you shall endure this punishment, if you abide under the guilt, and persevere in the way of sin, which you are now walking in; God hath threatned this punishment, and, his justice doth require it, and his truth doth engage him to execute his threa•ned wrath, and inflect this deserved punishment upon you; and can you then have the least hopes to escape it? will God, can God prove a••yar, to save you from the torments of Hell? Is it not equal that you should reap that which you have sown, that you should gather and taste the bitter fruits of your own evil ways? if you sowe to the flesh, will not torment be the fruit hereof? if you sowe sin, will not you reap Hell?
Awake sinners, Awake,! are not all your hopes of happiness in the uncertain and empty Cisterns of the Creatures mere dreams, when such dreadful miseries are so surely prepared for you? and what senseless dreams then are your hopes of Heaven and Salvation; whilst you are going on i the way of sin to Hell, and destruction? Is there any mercy for impenitents? Is there any pardon for unbelievers? Do