The souls vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.HThe soules vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.H

Others because they have felt the heavy hand ⟨p. 127⟩of God, many sorrows, many weaknesses, many troubles in their course, many losses in their estate, these stayeth up their comforts, and upon these grounds they build their hopes; I have had my hell in this life, and I hope to have heaven in the world to come; I hope the worst is over, now I have been troubled in this world, I hope I shall be comforted in another world, and here is the ground of your hopes: I beseech you consider what I answer, I say this, all the grievances, trouble, sorrow, sicknesses, be they what they will be unless thy heart be humbled by them, unless thou be brought unto the Lord Jesus Christ by them, they are so far from being an argument of grace and salvation unto thee, that they are harbingers of those everlasting torments, you shall endure in hell: Sodom and Gomorrah they burnt in brimstone, and they shall burn in hell; a man would have said they had their hell here, and therefore they should not have it hereafter; why? the text saith they suffered vengeance of eternal fire; why, brethren, I beseech you observe it, will any man reason thus; such a man hath had the earnest of the bargain, and therefore he shall not have the bargain? will any man say thus, he that is attached, arraigned, condemned, shall not be hanged? nay rather he that hath the earnest shall have the bargain, he that now is accused, condemned shall now be hanged, so here.

Others because they have felt the heavie hand ⟨p. 127⟩of God, many sorrowes, many weaknesses, many troubles in their course, many losses in their estate, these stayeth up their comforts, and upon these grounds they build their hopes; I have had my hell in this life, and I hope to have heaven in the world to come; I hope the worst is over, now I have beene troubled in this world, I hope I shall be comforted in another world, and here is the ground of your hopes: I beseech you consider what I answer, I say this, all the grievances, trouble, sorrow, sicknesses, be they what they will be unlesse thy heart be humbled by them, unlesse thou bee brought unto the Lord Jesus Christ by them, they are so farre from being an argument of grace and salvation unto thee, that they are harbingers of those everlasting torments, you shall endure in hell: Sodome and Gomorrah they burnt in brimstone, and they shall burne in hell; a man would have said they had their hell here, and therefore they should not have it hereafter; why? the text saith they suffered vengeance of eternall fire; why, brethren, I beseech you observe it, will any man reason thus; such a man hath had the earnest of the bargaine, and therefore he shall not have the bargaine? will any man say thus, hee that is attached, arraigned, condemned, shall not be hanged? nay rather he that hath the earnest shall have the bargaine, he that now is accused, condemned shall now be hanged, so here.