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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 4
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.
1. Christ at his second appearance will raise up all the dead out of their graves: there shall be a general Resurrection, John 5. 28, 29. The hour cometh in which all that […] in their Graves shall hear his voice and come forth, they that […] done good to the Resurrection of life, they that have […] the Resurrection of damnation. Something hath […] already concerning Christs victory over de•th▪ […] all his prisoners, but give me leave to […] ••• ction a little further; and here I shall […] forth by an allusion to that notable […] ten first verses. The hand of the Lord […] ••• ried me out in the Spirit of the Lord▪ […] midst of the valley, which was full […] pass by them round about: there […] ley, and •o they were very dry. […] can these bones live? and I […] gain he said unto me, Prophe••• […] them, O ye dry bones hear the […] Lord unto these bones, Behold I […] you, and ye shall live, And I […] up flesh upon you, and cover […] you, and ye shall live, and ye […] prophesied as I was […] noise, and behold a shaking, […] ••is bone. And when I beh•ld […] them, and the skin covered […] them. Then said be unto me, […] ••th the Lord God, come […] ••eathe upon these slain that they […] me, and the breath […] upon their feet, an exceeding […] this will the Resurrection be at […] bones and bodies of all former generation […] ⟨p. 14⟩and down in the valley of the shadow of Death: some are sunk into the deep, others are buried in the earth, the flesh is consumed, and dissolved into its first Elements, and the bones of some remain, of others are mouldered into earth: now when the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, shall come down from Mount Zion which is above, into the Valley of the inferior World, he will Prophesy over all the bodies and bones of all the children of men that are dead, & […] unto them to live: he will say unto them whilst they […] their Graves, Live: he will say, Awake ye that […]: and O what a noise and shaking will […] in the ground? what a clattering of bones […] coming of bone to his bone? If the body […] and buried, part in one place, and […]; (as the Levites Concubine, who was di […] parts, and sent to the twelve Tribes of […], buried in twelve distinct places) […] through the air out of all those places, […] one body.