set him at his own right hand when all other shall stand at his left Oh what a Glorious Day will that be when so many Myriads of Angels and glorified Saints each shining brighter than the Sun in its splendour shall attend upon the Lord Jesus Christ who shall surpass them all in Glory But what a dreadful Day will this be to Wicked Men when they shall see him whom they hated to be their Judge and they whom they persecuted and wickedly murthered to be their Accusers yea sitting upon Thrones to Judge them also Well may they call to the Mountains and Rocks to cover them Rev. 6.15 16. but in vain for the Mountains melt at his Presence and the Rocks are removed out of their places Hell it self that Dungeon of Darkness cannot hide from him For Death and Hell must deliver up their dead But if they cannot stand before their self-condemning Consciences much less before their Judge before whose face their secret sins are plain and manifest and then will they all say they must hear that flaming Sentence of Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels c. A Sentence breathing out nothing but Fire and Brimstone Thundring and Lightning Woe and Alas Torment without end and past imagination Everlasting Fire Eternity of Extremity which the Heart of Man cannot conceive nor his Tongue utter To depart from God is to depart from all that good is into Everlasting Fire here is the pain of Sense both these make up the Damned's Misery but the duration makes it compleat Here is the never-dying Worm that continually gnaws upon the Heart and the Fire that never goes out but continually burneth both the Soul and Body Now Sirs what say you to this Is Grace worth having that prevents all this and sets the Soul out of the reach of danger Those and those alone that are adorned with Grace shall be crowned with Glory for Grace is Glory begun and Glory is Grace perfected Is it now worth labouring for Doubtless those that now deride it as Foolishness will then be derided for their Folly Set your selves in the posture you will certainly be in at Death and at Judgment and then think whether you will make as light of it then as now you do and whether Cups and Queans will then give you better content No no the rudest Ruffian then would be the holiest Saint and wish with Balaam to dye the death of the Righteous But a few feigned Desires faint Wishes and short-winded Prayers will not serve turn God hath link'd Holiness and Happiness together and no Man can break the Chain many would do something for Heaven if they might pick and choose their Duties and leave some Sins if they might retain others they would dance with the Devil all Day so they might sup with Christ at Night they would do the Devil's Work but have God's Wages and leap out of Delilah's Lap into Abraham's Bosom they would be Dives all Day and Lazarus at Night But those that deride Holiness now are not like to have the Reward of it hereafter but then they shall see those very Men that now are at the Bar shall then be at the Bench 1 Cor. 6.2 and shall judge their Judges and those that have been unjustly judged shall have their Cause call'd over again and shall recover Costs and Damages and woe to those that have offended any of those Little Ones that trust in God for their Avenger is strong Wicked Men have no more fore-cast for their Souls than Fools have for their Bodies but they will pay dear for their Folly for when the Saints shall shine in Glory they shall be cast into a Dungeon of Darkness when God lays up his Jewels he will throw out his Muck-heaps when he fans his Wheat he will burn the Chaff the one must go into Everlasting Torment the other into Life Eternal Matth. 25. last Now Reader if thou wouldst know what Road thou art Travelling or what Place thou art like to Land in consider whether Grace be thy Pilot and God thy Polar Star if not thy Condition is dangerous and thy Course unsafe 5. Consider Grace will not leave us thus for its work is not done when the Judgment is over and the Sentence past for 't is the only Treasure we take with us to Heaven and will not leave us till the Crown of Glory is set upon our heads nor then neither their work is not done Indeed some Graces which imply imperfection in us as Faith and Hope or in others as Pity and Mercy may seem useless there for how can we believe and hope for what we actually enjoy except it be for the continuance of it These will be swallowed up in the fruition of what we now believe and hope for And for Pity and Mercy they want their Objects there being no Misery in Heaven and those in Hell deserve no Pity here we have many wanting Brethren whose Miseries call loud for Mercy but there they are supplyed but Love and Joy and Delight Desire and Admiration and such like are not only continued but much heightened in Heaven as also our Knowledge there will be perfected and the Faculties of the Soul enlarged For as an enraged Conscience is one considerable part of Hell so a good Conscience augments Heaven's Glory when all Earthly Enjoyments which made our Lives comfortable forsake us there will be a new Addition of Pleasures and Delights given in the duration of them will be for ever when others leave all that is comfortable behind these will leave all that implies Misery or Imperfection Grace will be a constant Companion to Eternity the Divine Love of God of Holiness of the Saints and Servants of God will never abate but be much more enlarged when our Understandings are enlightened to know God better for nothing but Ignorance can stave off our Affections from loving him who is the chiefest Good That Marriage-knot between Christ and the Soul is the Foundation of our Happiness for from Union springs Communion and the perfect Enjoyment of him in Glory which is the Beatifical Vision Grace here makes the Soul follow Christ through Good Report and Evil Report through thick and thin and makes her resolve to have him for her Husband though she have never a merry day with him and is willing to run through Fire and Water to come to him Oh that I might enjoy those Wild Beasts that are prepared for my Torments saith Ignatius Phileas The Italian Martyr was deaf at the Perswasions of his Friends to forsake Christ and blind at their Tears True Love is like unto Fire the more you blow it the faster it burns or like Lime the more Water you pour on the more 't is enkindled For many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it Now nothing but Grace can bear up the Head and Heart under those Torments and Tortures but a Gracious Man can sing sweetly when it rains
nations are as the drop of a bucket and are accounted as the small dust of the balance that taketh up the Isles as a very little thing And all nations are before him as nothing and are accounted to him less than nothing and vanity Isa 40.12.15.17 Fear ye not me saith the Lord do ye not tremble at my presence which have placed the sâ—nd for â—he bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it and though the waves toss themselves yet can they not prevail though they roar yet can they not pass over it Jeâ— 5.22 He setteth bounds to the sea and saith Hitherto shalt thou go and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed Job 38.11 He numbreth the stars and calleth them by their names Psal 147.4 He removeth the mountains and they know not he overthroweth them in his anger He shaketh the earth out of her place and maketh the pillars thereof tremble He commandeth the Sun and it ariseth not and sealeth up the Stars He alone spreadeth forth the heavens and treadeth upon the waves of the sea Which maketh Arcturus Orion and Pleiades and the chambers of the south Which doth great things past finding out and wonders without number Job 9.5 c. Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and the clouds are his chariot he walketh upon the wings of the wind He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire That layeth the foundations of the earth that they shall not be removed for ever Psal 104.3 c. Is it not he that made the World of nothing and can as easily reduce it into nothing He hangs the Earth upon nothing and that in the midst of the open Air and gave a Being to all his Creatures when they were nothing and nothing comes to pass without his Providence Nay is it not he that keeps the Keys of Life and Death at his Girdle I kill saith he and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand I lift up my hand and say I live for ever Deut. 32.39 He brings to the gates of death and back again and doth what pleaseth him in heaven and in earth and none can resist him neither dare any say What dost thou And is this he that hath done you this wrong and with him is it that you contend But consider Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger than he 1 Cor. 10.22 Shall we provoke him to a Duel as sometime Caligula did their Heathenish Jupiter Was there ever any that hardened himself against God and prospered Job 9.4 Who ever could boast of the last word or glory in the last blow The Walls of Aphek did Execution on the Blasphemous Syrians and the Angel of God upon the Assyrians If we harden our heart against God he will harden his hand against us for he will lay us upon our back ere he leave But haply though we do acknowledge God doth excel us in Power yet we imagine we have the better Cause and therefore with Jonab we think we do well to be Angry or at least with Job we would dispute the Point with him Job 13.3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty and I desire to reason with God Why what hath God done Why he hath taken away your Daughter in the midst of her days Well but hath he no Interest in her Is it not he whose we are and whom we serve Was it not he that gave her her Being and breathed into her the breath of Life and she became a living Soul Did he not give her her Being 'T is not long since there was nothing heard of her and did he not continue her in her Being till her death Was it not he that fed and cloathed her at his own Cost and Charges And was she not engaged to him for every bit of Bread she did eat and every drop of Drink she drank and for the Cloathes she did wear Was it not his wool and his flax that cloathed her his corn and his wine that fed her his silver and his gold that enriched her Hos 2.8 Let us take heed then of paying our Rent to a wrong Landlord her Limbs and Senses her Peace and Plenty her Wit and Reason yea her Life and Breath were given or rather lent her by God It was he that covered her in your Womb and through him she was born Psal 139.13 It was he that put bowels of Compassion into your Heart to make Provision for her when she could make none for her self and to him she was indebted for every breath she breathed and for every Mercy that rendred her Life more comfortable to her and doth it become Christians thus to quarrel with our great Benefactor Or is it meet that we should require of him an Account of his doings Or expect that he should bring his Will to ours Whose is the Pot but the Pot-makers and may not he if he please dash it in pieces with his foot And who can say why dost thou thus Now if this great God this Omnipotent Being this God that hath such an Interest in us and such Authority over us yea greater than any Man upon Earth hath over any thing he doth enjoy hath taken away one of his own Creatures and glorified himself with her that he had made for his own Glory shall we take Offence at it That it was his Hand I doubt not but you acknowledge for nothing comes to pass without his Providence Affliction springs not out of the dust neither doth trouble arise out of the ground yet man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward Job 5.6 These things come not to pass by Fate or blind Fortune as the Heathens imaginee or by Chance as the Philistines supposed 1 Sam. 6.9 but the hand of God is in all this and therefore the lamenting Church concludes That she will bear the indignation of the Lord because she had sinned against him Why should a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins Lam. 3.39 Is there evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it Amos. 3.6 That is the Evil of Punishment for the Evil of Sin He is not guilty of sin He is of purer eye than to behold iniquity with approbation Shall not the judge of all the earth do right Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass if the Lord commandeth it not Lam. 3.37 I form the light and I create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do these things Isa 45.7 Yea we may find that the Evil that came upon Jerusalem came from God Micah 1.12 For God sits at the Stern and guides the great Affairs of the World and when we sin what can we expect from a Righteous Judge but Sufferings Where sin goes before sorrow follows as the shadow follows the substance But now you have found out the Person and the Fact
Heaven and Glory and of the Beatifical Vision for withouâ— holiness we shall never see God Let us therefore leave off sorrowing for petty Losses and Crosses and turn the whole Torrent of our Sorrow into this Channel even against our sins 4. Nay the mischief of Sin ends not here it also exposeth us to the wrath of God and makes him our Enemy that otherwise would be our closest surest and fastest Friend and did we â—now what it is to have God for our Enemy it â—ould send us trembling to our Grave for when â—is Fury is kindled it sets on fire the foundation of â—he mountains Deut. 32.22 'T is better have all â—he World to grapple with than with God if â—e frown upon us no Creature dare smile If â—e be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.31 â—f God have a Controversie with us who dare â—ake our part or move a Hand or Tongue in our Defence We cannot grapple with him he is â—oo strong for us we cannot flye from him as â—onah thought to do he will over-take us neiâ—her can we hide our selves from him Psal 136 â— c. We cannot struggle out of his hand â—or he is the Almighty and we but despicable Worms if he tread upon us he leaves us dead â—ehind him Before him the Holy Angels cover â—heir faces and all the Infernal Spirits tremble â—n his hand is the soul of every living thing and the â—reath of all mankind Job 12.10 If he with-hold â—ur breath we return to our Dust for we have â—o more than what he puts into us how then â—hall we contend with our Maker Can Chaff â—nd Stubble grapple with a devouring Flame One blast of his Displeasure can blow us into Hell yea Heaven and Hell and All into nothing â—nd how are we like to make our Party good â—gainst him when we cannot move a Finger â—wag a Tongue or fetch a Breath without his â—ssistance Well but let us well consider whether our Cause be good What cause hath God given us to take up Arms against him Hath he â—een a hard Master to us Or with-held our Wages Jonah thought he did well to be angry but was soon convinc'd Job had a mind to quarrel him and seems of any other to have the best Cause but when the Contest began hâ— soon threw down the Cudgels and lays his hand upon his Mouth Hath not God been our greateâ—â— Benefactor and done more for us than all the World ever did or can do Is not he our beâ—â— Friend and shall we become his profest Enemies Many good works have I done among you saith Christ for which of those do you stone me John 10.32 God gave us our Being when we had none and shall we hate him for it We were tâ—â— Clay and he was the Potter and might have dash'd us into pieces with his foot He gave us Reason when he might have made us bruit Beasts as Dogs or Swine or more contemptible Creatures He hath given us Limbs and Senses when otherâ— want them Peace and Plenty yea Life and Liberty and hath made our Lives comfortable to us when we deserve not the Ground we tread upon or the Air we breath in and shall we flye at the Face of God and thus requite the Lord our Maker Nay hath not Christ suffered more for us than any other hath or can do We had sold our selves Bond-slaves to Satan and neither Man nor Angel could have redeemed us out of our Slavery or have paid a Ransom sufficient for us but Christ laid down his Life to free us from the guilt of sin from the filth of sin from the Punishment due for sin from the Curse of the Law the Wrath of God the Slavery of Satan and from Everlasting Damnation And hath he for all this deserved our Malice and Hatred He hath bestowed more upon us than the World hath to bestow 't is he that sends us so many Ambassages for Peace and rains Heavenly Manna so plentifully about our Tents he gives us Promises such as the greatest Kings upon Earth cannot make and make good to their greatest Favourites as of his Spirit his Graces his Son and his Glory And is all this nothing Shall we foster sin in our Bosom that hinders us in the Enjoyment of those promised Blessings and expose us to the wrath of God and the everlasting Destruction of Soul and Body and expose us also to all Miserie 's Temporal Spiritual and Eternal God forbid Well we cannot make our Peace with God till we break our League with Sin and if God be our Enemy and our Enemy he will be if we are at Peace with Sin then we may expect he will treat us as Enemies Well may we fear that every bit of Bread we eat will choak us and every drop of Drink we drink may be our bane and that every Creature may wait for a Commission to end our days that the Floods may drown us as they did the Old World or the Fire consume us as Sodom or the Earth swallow us up as Korah and his Complices or the greatest Judgments that ever we read fell upon Mortal Man may be our Portion Oh what need had we then to leave sorrowing for other things and turn all our Tears into the right Channel that it may drown our sins that expose us to these Miseries and Mischiefs 5. Nay but this is not all for Eternal Death as well as Spiritual and Temporal is the Reward of Sin the everlasting separation of Soul and Body from God which is called The second Death and this is far greater than all the Miseries before mentioned for if the sinner be not reconciled to God which cannot be before sin be mortified he shall be cast into the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21.8 This is the Natural Fruit and Effect of every beloved sin even the everlasting Damnation of Body and Soul a thousand thousand rentings of the Soul from the Body is not comparable to one renting of the Soul from Christ Sin doth that for us that all the Men on Earth and Devils in Hell could never do even pull us out of the Arms of God This threw Angels out of Heaven Adam out of Paradice and Millions of Souls into Hell This brought Death into the World and is the very Sting of Death and if this Sting be not taken out it will sting the Soul to Eternity This imbitters our Lives as you have heard while we are in the World and opens the Door to let us out of the World and will open Hell it self to let us in and is the only bar to keep us from coming out But if Sin were mortified we might with Old Simeon depart in Peace and with Ambrose say I am not ashamed to live nor afraid to dye And with Paul I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Death without his Sting is like Samson without his Hair or like the Drone-Bee without a Sting not
then the Soul will know the worth of the things she hath lost and what a foolish bargain she made when God and Heaven and Happiness were parted with for a Lust this will be a bitter Corazine and an eternal Torment to a miscarrying Soul when she knows and know she will what it is to enjoy those Rivers of pleasures which are at the right-hand of God ouâ— sight of Christ ouâ— glimps of Heaven one hours converse with Angels and glorified Saints would dash the Glory of Ten thousand Worlds out of countenance this Beatifical Vision this enjoyment of God in Glory is a Saints greatest Happiness and well it may We mourn and overmourn for little petty Crosses or Losses in our temporal Estate but the loss of a thousand Worlds will not equal this a glimps of whose Face in Glory would make amends for all the Losses Crosses Pains and Torments which here we can suffer for his sake 'T is His Presence that makes Heaven to be Heaven and his Absence is Hell it self the enjoyment of him here in a small measure is Heaven upon Earth and when he withdraws himself from the Soul 't is a very Hell but the blinded World is not sensible of his worth ignotis nulla cupida nothing but Ignorance could stave off our Affections from him yet many though they cannot live without him yet value him not they have not Bread to eat or Clothes to put on nor a Breath to breathe but what he gives them yet dare they abuse their Meat to Gluttony their Drink to Drunkenness their Breath to blaspheme his holy Name But what will those do when there shall be an everlasting separation between God and them The loss of a Jewel is not much to one that values it but as a common Stone but when they come to know its worth it will more trouble them I have read of a Diamond taken from the Duke of Burgundy slain by the Switzers that was sold for a crown by the Soldier that took it and so passed from one to one â—â—ll at last it was bought for 20000 Ducats which as some value it was above 7000 Pound and put into the Pope's triple Crown See what Ignorance may do But Ignorance of God will prove the most dangerous mistake There are many in our Age like David's Fool that say in their Hearts there is no God nay too many that proclaim it with their Tongues but e're long they will be fain to eat their words There is not one of them but e're long will be fully convinc'd for there is no Atheist in Hell the Devil though full of other Sins is not guilty of this Many here have Souls to little purpose but like Salt to keep their Bodies from Putrefaction for as they think there is no God so they live as if there were none Many of these have been convinc'd of their Error even in this Life by the Judgments of God the rest will soon after but these men I suppose rather desire there were no God than believe it Many that own a God fancy to themselves one of their own making a God all of Mercy and no Justice they think he that made them must save them but the Devils find it to the contrary 'T is true he was merciful when he drowned the old World burnt Sodom and Gomorrah with Fire overthrew Pharaoh and his Army in the Red-Sea slew in one night in the Camp of Sennacherib 185000 and will be so at the day of Judgment when he throws the Devil and his Angels and all unrepenting Sinners into Hell And they will find him just as well as merciful and one that will make good his Threats as well as his Promises He hath Power in his Hand to do both and will be no respecter of Persons for if they are wicked by what Name or Titles soever they are dignified or distinguish'd suffer they must Tophet is ordained of old even for the King it is prepared He hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood and the breath of the Lord as a river of Brimstone doth kindle it Isa 30.33 Now they say to God Depart from us we desire not the knowledge of thy ways Job 21.14 But e're long God will say to them Depart from me ye wicked into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels c. Mat. 25.41 Now they will not know God and then God will nor know them Mal. 7.22 Now the rottenness of their Hearts blisters out in their Lips and Tongues and they belch out their unsavoury Breath into the very Face of God himself Now they will none of his counsel but set as nought his reproofs but he will laugh at their destruction and mock when their fear cometh Prov. 1.24 But how light soever they value him now they shall know his Worth to their eternal Torment for they shall for ever lose him and all comfortable Relations to him and with him all that good is the Joys of Heaven the Society of Angels and glorified Saints these indeed they little regard here but they will know their Worth better hereafter It hath been the Speech of some of that Fraternity That if they thought the Puritans and such they called all holy sober serious men were in Heaven and their own Good-fellows and Pot-companions were in Hell they would chuse Hell before Heaven And they are like enough to have their Choice but e're long they would willingly eat those words of theirs Now they hate persecute and revile them and glad they are to be rid of them then they shall be far enough out of their company and out of their reach They think they are not worthy to live in the World whom God thinks the World is not worthy of Heb. 11.35 c. They are cutting off the Bough they stand upon and taking away the Pillars that uphold the Building they laugh at their own Misery and sport themselves with their own Folly they reioice to see their own Houses on Fire and to see their own Wickedness prosper which will be their Ruine but when the mad Fit is over and over it will be e're long when they consider what they have been doing their Note will be changed and their Sport spoiled they will find time enough for Repentance and for every dram of Mirth they will have a pound of Sorrow When God forsakes them and forsaâ—e them he will if they forsake not their Sins whither will they go for help Their Pot-Companions cannot help them for they are under the same Condemnation the World cannot help them for the Earth and all the Works therein shall be burnt up their Riches Honours and Pleasures shall be left behind the Rocks and Mountains cannot cover them these melt at the presence of the Lord their Companions can do them no good they will curse the time that ever they saw the Face each of other the Ordinances which they slighted are then ceased the Ambassadors
Register and records what is done there it will be a Witness a Judge and an Executioner The Memory also will not be in vain but will bring to mind things by us long ago forgotten the Sins committed the Duties omitted the Time lost the Opportunity let slip the Understanding will then know the worth of the things lost the vanity of those we had in exchange and the woful Bargain we have made and for this Conscience will lash to all Eternity 'T is one of the saddest Afflictions that can befal a Man in this Life to be under the Terrors of an enraged Conscience witness Spira that wish'd he were in Hell to know the worst of his Torments This was for one sin but when all their sins with all the aggravations shall stare them in the Face and when Conscience shall have an enlarged Commission it will then speak to purpose and not hold its peace Were a Man to grapple with the Creature it were not so much but who can contend with the Almighty Who can dwell with consuming fire or with everlasting burning Hell is the place where the Prisoner must pay the utmost farthing and God's Vials of Vengeance shall be poured out to the utmost all the Talents lent shall then be required and every vain Thought and every idle Word shall be answered for and every sin of Youth and riper Age of Ignorance and Knowledge Weakness and Wilfulness the sins of every Relation Calling and Employment of Omission Commission and Participation against the Law and against the Gospel with all their Circumstances and Aggravations Oh the numberless Number of bloody Bills will be brought in and fully proved not a vain word or thought or wanton glance of the Eye or wicked or lascivious Gesture or Action will be then omitted or forgiven there they must stay till they have paid the utmost Farthing for God will be no loser by them Those that have exceeded most in Sin shall exceed also in Torments as God threatens Babylon Rev. 18.15 16. No Tongue can tell nor Heart conceive how great their Torments will be for they will be inconceivable and unutterable If all the Tormenting Diseases that ever poor Creature groaned under were inflicted upon one Man and all the Racks and Tortures that ever were invented by Man or Devil were added to it and this Man's Life should be preserved under these Tortures for a Year for a Hundred or a Thousand Years sure it would be a miserable Spectacle But what is this to Hell Torments This reaches only the Body except by Sympathy when Soul and Body are tormented in Hell Or what is a Thousand Years to Eternity A thousand thousand rentings of the Soul from the Body is not so much as one renting of Soul and Body from God There are many now that cannot endure to hear the Devil's Name in a Sermon yet can they endure to lodge him in their Hearts but how will they lodge with him for ever If he now appear in some horrid shape how are they affrighted out of their Wits but how then will they dwell with him for Eternity Now if a Person be in pain they have some intervals some mitigation but there is none or some parts of the Body free when others are tormented but in Hell no Part Power or Faculty is free yet haply those Parts that sinned most may suffer most as the Rich Glutton's Tongue seemed to do their fire goes not out neither doth their worm dye Every Sense there will have its Torment as every Sense here hath its peculiar Sins Whether the Fire there be Material as some imagine or Metaphorical as others more probably conceive it is not much material for us to know and well if we never know if it be Material Fire God adds strength to it otherwise it could not touch the Soul if Metaphorical Fire 't is something more afflictive than our Imaginations can reach however Christ bids us not fear man that can but kill the body haply by Fire but cannot kill the soul but fear him that can cast soul and body into Hell Now our Fire consumes as well as torments but Hell Fire doth not so Wicked Men in Hell are like Moses's Bush always burning but never consumed would Hell-fire consume them it would be happy News but they are like the Salamander they live in it and will do to Eternity they never leave sinning and their sins are as Oyl or Pitch to increase the Flames and God will not leave plaguing them for their sins Jerome tells us their Sins are the Oyl and God's Wrath the Fire and while the Oyl is poured on the Fire will not out Those Bodies that now are so tender they cannot endure Cold nor Heat that must not have the Sun or Wind to see them for spoiling their Beauty will be now exposed to Fire and Flames those that could not away with an ill smell what will they do to endure the smell of burning Brimstone or what is worse represented by it Those that delighted in Pleasant Sights and Shews must here take up with the sight of Infernal Fiends and Leprous Souls far more ugly than the foulest Toad that crawls under our Feet and the choicest Melody will be the Yellings Roarings and Blasphemings of damned Devils and miscarrying Souls and nothing to be felt but Fire or what more is appointed for further Torment How will they dwell with everlasting burning that now cannot away with Summer-heat These Flames will neither regard Age Sex nor Beauty but like the Worms will feed upon one as soon as the other for as the Worms will make their Nests between those Breasts that now are exposed to shew and sale and eat out those wanton Windows of Love and Messengers of Lust and seize upon the fairest Face as on the most deformed Piece and rottenness will consume that Hair that now is made the Nets and Snares to catch our wanton Youth and Prey upon the most Ambitious Nimrod or proudest Person as soon as any other making no difference between the Prince and the Peasant the Dust of both will ere long be mixt and not known asunder so in like manner will they go undistinguished in the Infernal Pit for God will respect no Man's Person in the Judgment nor the Flames in Hell but as their Work is so will be their Reward That there will be degrees in Torment I think is out of doubt for there are degrees in Sin and the Judge of all the Earth will do Righteously Those that know their masters will and do it not shall be beaten with many stripes those that have abused most Talents have most to answer for It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for Corazin and Bethsaida Bloody Persecutors of Christ and his Church are like to have the hottest place in Hell and those that commit that Sin unto Death shall speed worse than those that sin of frailty Those that now would be accounted Roaring