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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
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3 If you have laid up your treas•r in Heaven, and placed your happiness in things above: if you have cast the Anchor of your hope upward into that which is within the Veil, it i• a sign you have true desires after Christ's appearance▪ that he might give you possession of the happiness which you have made choice of.
3 If you have laid up your treas•r in Heaven, and placed your happinesse in things above: if you have cast the Anchor of your hope upward into that which is within the V•il, it i• a sign you have true desires after Christ's appearance▪ that he might give you possession of the happinesse which you have made choice of.
4. If you are careful to please the Lord and whether present or absent to be accepted of him; and are afraid of sin, because it is grievous to him; and are diligent in the use of means to sit and prepare your selves, and make all things ready for the receiving of him, it is a sign you do both look for his coming, and do desire it.
4. If you are careful to please the Lord and whether present or absent to be accepted of him; and are affraid of sin, because it is grievous to him; and are diligent in the use of meanes to sit and prepare your selves, and make all things ready for the receiving of him, it is a sign you do both look for his coming, and do desire it.