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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 14
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. XIV.
Having spoken to Sinners, I come now to speak, 2. To Believers, and that in two words. 1. For the Trial of them. 2 For the Comforting of them.
HAving spoken to Sinners, I come now to speak, 2. To Believers, and that in two words. 1. For the Tryal of them. 2 For the Comforting of them.
1. For the Trial of Believers; the Doctrine of Christs certain and sudden appearance to Judgment, is a m•st dreadful Doctrine to sinners, which are in sin; and it is a most comfortable Doctrine to believers, which are in Christ: but because many sinners, which are still held fast in the ••ond of iniquity, and are under the reigning power of some ••ns, are art to mistake, and without good ground do persuade themselves that they are believers, who at the last day will be found to be hypocrites; and through their mistake of their state do ward off those strokes of Gods threatenings which are made at them, and themselves hereby from those terrible apprehensions of Christs appearance to Judge and condemn them, which did they entertain, might be a means to startle them, and awaken them to take an effectual and speedy course for the salvation of themselves from future vengeance; and because many true believers, who are really united unto Christ by faith, are apt also through the temptation of Satan, and their own ignorance, and doubting misgiving-heart, to mistake themselves, and look upon themselves to be hypocrites, and therefore fear