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

Repent then sinners, repent; Christ will come certainly to judgment, therefore repent truly; and Christ will come quickly to judgment, therefore repent speedily. Protract not the time, endeavour presently without any further delay. Considering,

1. Your particular Judgment may be suddenly, and the time of preparation your may be spent quickly; You may be within a few months or weeks▪ or days, yea, it may be within a few hours smitten by Deaths arrows and there will be no place for repentance and preparation in the other World.

1. Your particular Judgment may be suddenly, and the time of preparation your may be spent quickly; You may be within a few moneths or weeks▪ or dayes, yea, it may be within a few hours smitten by Deaths arrows and there will be no place for repentance and preparation in the other World.

2. If you defer your repentance, it is a thousand to one that you never repent as long as you live, If your life should continue many years; because not one in a thousand that defer their repentance, do afterwards repent; there are millions in Hell that lived under the light of the Gospel who intended to repent, but were prevented by death before they were aware; and it is a thousand to one if you defer any longer, but ere long you will be received into their number; have not you deferred your repentance before this till such a time and such a time? and yet when such times ⟨p. 203⟩have come again and again, have […] •ot deferred i• ll? and will not your […] […] still find as plausible excuses till it be too […]? Remember this sinners, that it is a thousand to one but you will be damned if you any longer defer your repentance.