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

4. Rejoice, Believers Rejoice! When Christ doth appear, Ye also shall appear; Possibly some of you may remain alive until his appearance, be sure all of you shall be made alive; if you go down into your dust before, you shall not be hid there for ever, you shall not be buried there in eternal oblivion; but the Lord Jesus Christ will awaken you out of your long sleep of Death, and raise you out of your beds of darkness; He will send his Angels to gather you from the four Winds; Think, O think how joyful a day this day will be unto you when the Voice is proclaimed, the Bridegroom is come, Go ye forth to meet him; when the Trumpet doth sound in the Air, and you are called out of your graves by the Angels, and gathered into the company of all the Saints, of God which lived in all generations from the beginning of he Creation; and in a moment in the twinkle of an eye, such of you as are alive shall find your▪ bodies strangely transformed, and all that come forth of the ground made incorruptible and immortal; and when you shall set the Lord Jesus Christ come down with such brightness, and beauty, and glory, and such Royal Attendants, and you are all caught up to meet with him in the▪ Air; when you shall find your selves! in the number of those blessed, happy ones, whom the Lord […] send for, and receive to himself, when the greatest part of the World will be left behind crying to the Rocks to cover them, and the Mountains to fall upon them, to bide them from the wrath of this furious Judge that is come to condemn them; O how will your hearts then be filled, and even ravished with transporting joy which no heart now can conceive!

4. Rejoyce, Believers Rejoyce! When Christ doth appear, Ye also shall appear; Possibly some of you may remain alive until his appearance, be sure all of you shall be made alive; if you go down into your dust before, you shall not be hid there for ever, you shall not be buried there in eternal oblivion; but the Lord Jesus Christ will awaken you out of your long sleep of Death, and raise you out of your beds of darkness; He will send his Angels to gather you from the four Winds; Think, O think how joyful a day this day will be unto you when the Voice is proclaimed, the Bridegroom is come, Go ye forth to meet him; when the Trumpet doth sound in the Air, and you are called out of your graves by the Angels, and gathered into the company of all the Saints, of God which lived in all generations from the beginning of he Creation; and in a moment in the twinkle of an eye, such of you as are alive shall finde your bodies strangelie transformed, and all that come forth of the ground made incorruptible and immortal; and when you shall set the Lord Jesus Christ come down with such brightnesse, and beauty, and glory, and such Royal Attendants, and you are all caught up to meet with him in the Air; when you shall finde your selves! in the number of those blessed, happy ones, whom the Lord send for, and receive to himself, when the greatest part of the World will be left behind crying to the Rocks to cover them, and the Mountains to fall upon them, to bide them from the wrath of this furious Judge that is come to condemn them; O how will your hearts then be filled, and even ravished with transporting joy which no heart now can conceive!