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

6. If you repent of sin now, your grief will be but for a time; for a season, a short time, a few days a night, a moment. 1 Pet 1. 6. Rev 2. 10. Psal 30 5. Isai. 54 6, 7. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning; God will not permit you […] weep and grieve for […] long; it is not a life of grief which he calleth you unto, but a life of faith and love; it is not grief for it self which he requireth, ⟨p. 202⟩but in order unto your comfort, and therefore it shall not be of long continuance; your grief for sin doth make way for spiritual comforts, for the joys of the holy Ghost, which after sorrowing times the Lord doth often give in abundantly unto his Children in this World; in which they find incomparably more sweetness, than ever they could find sweetness in sin, or bitterness in sorrow; they have pleasures of a higher and more transcendent nature; be sure your grief for sin will make way for your everlasting joys in Heaven, where all tears shall be wiped away from your eyes, and all sorrow and sighing shall be removed from your hearts, and you shall obtain gladness unspeakable & everlasting But if you do not repent until hereafter, as the pleasures which you find in sin▪ will be but for a season, and your •ry•mph•ng but short, Death be sure will put a conclusion unto all: so your grief for sin then will be long, the days of darkness and sorrow will be many, yea your grief will be eternal.

6. If you repent of sin now, your grief will be but for a time; for a season, a short time, a few dayes a night, a moment. 1 Pet 1. 6. Rev 2. 10. Psal 30 5. Isai. 54 6, 7. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning; God will not permit you 〈…〉 weep and grieve for 〈…〉 long; it is not a life of grief which he calleth you unto, but a life of faith and love; it is not grief for it self which he requireth, ⟨p. 202⟩