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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Awake then, before you sleep the sleep of death, awake out of the sleep of sin, think with your selves, this night we may be in Hell, and free, or rather bound in Chains of Darkness and horror amongst the damned; or tomorrow we may be in torments with Cain and Judas, with the Devil and his Angels and therefore give no• sleep to your eyes, no• slumber to your eve-lids, until you have redeemed your selves out of the snare of the Devil and sin, as a Bird out of the snare of the Fowler, or a Roe out of the hand of the hunter.
Awake then, before you sleep the sleep of death, awake out of the sleep of sin, think with your selves, this night we may be in Hell, and free, or rather bound in Chains of Darkness and h•rrour amongst the damned; or tomorrow we may be in torments with Cain and Judas, with the Devil and his Angels and therefore give no• sleep to your eyes, no• slumber to your eve-lids, until you have redeemed your selves out of the snare of the Devil and sin, as a Bird out of the snare of the Fowler, or a Roe out of the hand of the hunter.
4. Sinners, consider the everlastingness of your punishment in Hell; when your Souls a•e […] in, they shall never come forth, until they are brought forth unto the last Judgment at Christs appearance; and when soul and body are joined, and sentenced to this place of torment, and thrush into it, the Door will be shut upon you, and you will be locked in, so that it will be impossible for you to get forth for ever; your bodies as well as souls will be immortal and the Fire of Hell will be everlasting, those flames will never be quenched, and your torments will never be ended; when you have been ten thousand times ten thousand millions of years in Hell, it will not bear the proportion of a moment of time, to the unmeasurable space of Eternity, in which you must be tormented for sin; your punishment will always be in the beginning of it, never, never, never, will it come to a conclusion, nor you to any hopes of […] as long as God lives, and Heaven continues which will be for evermore, so long will Hell continue, & you abide in extremity of torments, without any possibility of release and deliverance.