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

4. The fourth Antecedent is that the Righteous shall be caught up together in the air: all the righteous shall be caught up, they that are raised from the dead, and they that remain alive upon the earth on that day, 1 Thes. 4. 16, 17. The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the Air: we read of the two Witnesses which were stain: after three days and a half the Spirit of Life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, come up hither, and they ascendeth up to heaven in a cloud, &c. Rev. 11. 11, 12. In the morning of the Resurrection the spirit of Life from God will enter into the bodies of all the Saints, and they will stand up, and possibly they may bear a voice from Christ in the Air, Come up hither! and then they will be caught up, […] ascend into the air to meet with the Lord? O what unexpressible pleasure and delight will they find when they Feel themselves begin to mo•e upwards, when they are leaving the earth and wicked men, and so many glorious persons of them together ascending to meet their most glorious Lord.

4. The fourth Antecedent is that the Righteous shall be caught up together in the air: all the righteous shall be caught up, they that are raised from the dead, and they that remain alive upon the earth on that day, 1 Thes. 4. 16, 17. The dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the Air: we read of the two Witnesses which were stain: after three days and a half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them, and they stood upon their feet, and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, come up hither, and they ascendeth up to heaven in a cloud, &c. Rev. 11. 11, 12. In the morning of the Resurrection the spirit of Life from God will enter into the bodies of all the Saints, and they will stand up, and possibly they may bear a voice from Christ in the Air, Come up hither! and then they will be caught up, ascend into the air to meet with the Lord? O what unexpressible pleasure and delight will they find when they Feel themselves begin to moe upwards, when they are leaving the earth and wicked men, and so many glorious persons of them together ascending to meet their most glorious Lord.