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

Sinners mourn for sin: Be afflicted, mourn and weep: Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness, Jam 4 9 Get your proud hearts humbled, and your hard hearts broken for those sins whereby you have broken Gods Law; get your hearts broken for sin, and get your hearts broken from sin; Break off your sins by Repentance; Cast away all your transgressions like menstruous clothes, saying, get you hence, Isai. 30. 22. Let the wicked forsake his way, & the unrighteous man his thoughts, and turn to the Lord, &c Isa. 55 7. Thrust these Inhabitants out of doors who have so long had possession; suffer them not to lodge any longer within […]; remember that they are Vipers which will […] you, that they are enemies which will wound and kill […]: Do not harbour sin any longer, do not entertain it […] smiles and a pleasing countenance, but with •eares and ••ownes: Get your hearts set against sin; labour for deep rooted hatred of it, and accordingly behave your selves towards it; get the strong holds of sin demolished […] your hearts; get the rooms in which your lusts have […] defilement, washed with the •eares of Repentance, […] the blood of Jesus Christ: let Christ have his Throne […] sin hath reigned; let your thoughts and affections be ⟨p. 195⟩brought into captivity and obedience unto Jesus Christ: Keep the door of your hearts with all diligence▪ least your old enemy enter again upon you: Flee from sin as from a Cockatrice and if you be pursued, manfully resist, resist even unto blood, striving against sin; never parley with sin, hearken not to any •earms of composition: Be not enticed unto sin by pleasing bai•s, neither be affrighted to sin by frowns and threatenings: Fight the good fight of Faith; Turn by repentance from sin, break off the course of sin, and walk not in the way thereof, and turn by repentance unto the Lord; let the Bias of your hearts be turned unto him; Deliver up your selves unto the obedience of his Law, yield your selves unto God, &c