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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 6
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But these four things Christ will take an account of, in the judgment of the righteous.
1 He will take an account of their Graces The vessels of the Virgins will be looked into, what O I they have got, the hearts of the Saints will be looked into, what graces they have obtained. Christ will then take notice what Godly sorrow they have had for sin, their secret weeping & mourning, will then be made manifest; he will take notice what humility and meekness, what self-denial and patience they have had, especially what faith, and love, and hope, and spiritual joy they have had, and all their raised affections toward• himself, and Heavenly things, in his Ordinances, and his judgment of grace will not be according to the appearance and show which hath been, but according to truth: and then the Saints shall be •ancked, not according to their esteem and dignity in the World, but according to the measure of the graces they have attained.
1 He will take an account of their Graces The vessels of the Virgins will be lookt into, what O I they have got, the hearts of the Saints will be lookt into, what graces they have obtained. Christ will then take notice what Godly sorrow they have had for sin, their secret weeping & mourning, will then be made manifest; he will take notice what humility and meekness, what self-denial and patience they have had, especially what faith, and love, and hope, and spiritual joy they have had, and all their raised affections toward• himself, and Heavenly things, in his Ordinances, and his judgment of grace will not be according to the appearance and shew which hath been, but according to truth: and then the Saints shall be •ancked, not according to their esteem and dignity in the World, but according to the measure of the graces they have attained.