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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
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 14
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8. Think what Joys and Pleasures you shall have; you shall have fullness of Joy, Psal 16. 11. you shall drink of the rivers of pleasures, Psal 3• 8. O the delights which you shall have in the immediate views of Gods face, in the sense of Gods love, in the high actings of your love; in the fruition of the chiefest good, and the high employments which you shall have in Heaven.
8. Think what Joyes and Pleasures you shall have; you shall have fulness of Joy, Psal 16. 11. you shall drink of the rivers of pleasures, Psal 3• 8. O the delights which you shall have in the immediate views of Gods face, in the sence of Gods love, in the high actings of your love; in the fruition of the chiefest good, and the high employments which you shall have in Heaven.
Rejoice then Believers, Rejoice in hope of these joys; now you mourn and weep for your sin, and because of the ⟨p. 218⟩Eclipses of the light of Gods countenance; it troubles your hearts that you can see and enjoy so little of God, that your love is so low and inconstant, that your highest services are but mean, and diverted many times by little trifling businesses in the world, from converse with God; in heaven all tears will be wiped away from your eyes, and all sorrow, with all the grounds thereof will be removed, you will come with singing into the new Jerusalem; you will enter and live in the vision and fruition, in the love and joy, and spend an eternity in the praise of the Lord.
Rejoyce then Believers, Rejoyce in hope of these joyes; now you mourn and weep for your sin, and because of the ⟨p. 218⟩Eclipses of the light of Gods countenance; it troubles your hearts that you can see and enjoy so little of God, that your love is so low and inconstant, that your highest serices are but mean, and diverted many times by little trifling businesses in the world, from converse with God; in heaven all tears will be wiped away from your eyes, and all sorrow, with all the grounds thereof will be removed, you will come with singing into the new Jerusalem; you will enter and live in the vision and fruition, in the love and joy, and spend an eternity in the praise of the Lord.