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

1. Concerning the immediate antecedents to the judgement of […] righteous.

1. Concerning the immediate antecedents to the judgement of 〈…〉 righteous.

1. The first Antecedent to the righteous judgement will be their Resurrection from the dead, 1 Thes. 4. 16. The dead in Christ shall rise first, when Christ descends from Heaven, the souls of the righteous shall descend with him, 1 Thes. 4. 14. Them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. The Spirits of all the just men and women made Perfect, shall then come down and find out their own bodies which have been sleeping in the ⟨p. 25⟩bed of their graves, and they shall enter again into their old Habitations, they went out of them it may be with fear & trembling, with grief and sorrow, being unwilling to leave them behind, though they were so rotten and ruinous: but O with what joy will they return and enter again, when the building shall be repaired, when their bodies shall be raised by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, and healed of all infirmities, when they shall be made incorruptible and immortal! see 1 Cor. 15. 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trump, for the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed: And Verse 54 So when this corruptible shall have put […] on, and this mortal shall […] brought to pass the saying […] in Victory; then shall […] saying, Verse 55. O […] is thy Victory? The […] ••• ous over this Conquer••• […] hath given us the Victory […] parting of soul and body […] Saints at their death, as […] resurrection; O how […] strange metamorph […] of […] body vile to […] and […] it come forth more bright and […] hath been refined in a furnace, […] fashioned like unto Christs most glor […] how will the soul delight in the beauty, […] rtality, which then shall be put upon the […] will be more suited to its nature, and fitted for its […] ions, and participation in its glory, and how will the body delight in the wonderful glorious and shining excellencies which the soul hath attained since its separation? If the love between the soul and the body were so great, when the body was so vile, and the soul so sinful, what will it be hen both are glorified? If the conjunction between the […] and body were so sweet, when the body was so frail, […] subject to death, and the soul a spiritual and never-dying