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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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5 If you repent of sin now, you will escape the punishment of sin; I do not speak of some temporal calamities, which God may exercise his people withal in this World; but you shall assuredly be kept from the eternal punishment• of Hell; which shall be ins•icted upon the ungodly World; but if you do not repent of sin until hereafter, your punishment will be unavoidable▪ no cries nor tears will then save you from the torments of Hell which you will be condemned unto; now you are condemned for sin, whilst unbelievers, but in this World the sentence is reversible, you may […] from the B•r of justice, to the Throne of Grace, and if with repentance and faith you apply your selves unto Jesus Christ, he will deliver you from the wrath to come and free you from condemnation; but hereafter▪ when the Lord Jesus Christ shall appear unto Judgment, and summon you, and examine you, and find you guilty, and pass sentence upon you to depart into everlasting Fire; this sentence will be irreversible and your repentance will be too late to procure freedom from, or the least mitigation of your punishment.
5 If you repent of sin now, you will escape the punishment of sin; I do not speak of some temporal calamities, which God may exercise his people withall in this World; but you shall assuredly be kept from the eternal punishment• of Hell; which shall be ins•icted upon the ungodly World; but if you do not repent of sin until hereafter, your punishment will be unavoidable▪ no cries nor teares will then save you from the torments of Hell which you will be condemned unto; now you are condemned for sin, whilst unbelievers, but in this World the sentence is reversible, you may 〈…〉 from the B•r of justice, to the Throne of Grace, and if with repentance and faith you apply your selves unto Jesus Christ, he will deliver you from the wrath to come and free you from condemnation; but hereafter▪ when the Lord Jesus Christ shall appear unto Judgment, and summon you, and examine you, and finde you guilty, and pass sentence upon you to depart into everlasting Fire; this sentence will be irreversible and your repentance will be too late to procure freedom from, or the least mitigation of your punishment.