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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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1. Examine your selves: Christ will examine you at the last day, and you m•st give an account unto him; examine your selves and call your selves to an account, that you may repent and prevent the future misery which will be the consequent of sin; Find out your sins that you may mourn and turn; that which the eye seeth not, the heart will no•, cannot be affected withal; Consult the Register of your consciences, turn over the leaves and read what is recorded in that Book: open your hearts to the beams of the light of the Word, and be ready to receive the convictions of the Spirit; Find out your sins, your original sin, the defilement of your natures, your actual sins, your great Conscience▪ wounding sins; find ou• your bosom-sins, which your hearts are most nearly joined unto, and are most loth to part withal; find out your Constitution-sins, your Calling-sins, the sins which bear the greatest sway, and are most supported […] the interest of the flesh, and your hearts are ready to cloak and cover under the […] of excuses and plausible pleas: Thin• how you will be able to answer for them at the great Day, to the Heart-searching Judge.
1. Examine your selves: Christ will examine you at the last day, and you m•st give an account unto him; examine your selves and call your selves to an account, that you may repent and prevent the future misery which will be the consequent of sin; Finde out your sins that you may mourn and turn; that which the eye seeth not, the heart will no•, cannot be affected withal; Consult the Register of your consciences, turn over the leaves and read what is recorded in that Book: open your hearts to the beams of the light of the Word, and be ready to receive the convictions of the Spirit; Find out your sins, your original sin, the defilement of your natures, your actual sins, your great Conscience▪ wounding sins; find ou• your bosom-sins, which your hearts are most nearly joined unto, and are most loth to part withall; find out your Constitution-sins, your Calling-sins, the sins which bear the greatest sway, and are most supported the interest of the flesh, and your hearts are ready to cloak and cover under the of excuses and plausible pleas: Thin how you will be able to answer for them at the great Day, to the Heart-searching Judge.