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

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 ser•ices 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.

2. Believers, consider the sureness of the happiness of Heaven; as surely as you are Believers, so surely shall you obtain this happiness; you cannot be sure of any thing in the World, but you may be sure of the glory of Heaven, and though there •e not the certitudo subjecti: and many of you be not assured of it, but are full of doubts and fears that you shall f•ll short; yet there is certitudo objecti, the thing is sure to you.