A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

But most fearful is the estate of secure men, in respect of that fearful condemnation, which they plunge themselves into, in the World to come. When as they shall not only be deprived of heavenly joys, ⟨p. 61⟩but be also for ever tormented with hellish torments. As we see in the example of the reckless and secure servant, whose Lord came in a day when he looked not for him, and in an hour that he was not aware of, and not only deprived him of the reward given to the faithful servant, whom he found well employed, but also cut him off, and appointed ¹him his portion with hypocrites, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Neither shall they be subject only to ordinary punishments and tortures in this hellish condemnation (though the least in this kind be fearful and intolerable) but as they have more securely wallowed themselves in carnal and worldly pleasures, presuming that they should always last, the more exquisitely shall they be tormented; as we see by that fearful sentence pronounced against the Whore of Babylon, the Antichrist of Rome. How much she hath glorifieth her ²self and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: For she saith in her heart, I sit a Queen and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. For if the Lord observeth such a just proportion in executing judgement, according to the Law of requital in this life: How much more