The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

More particularly, Sins of Consequence, whereby others are drawn to Sin, will heighten the Guilt, and the retribution of Justice will be to every Man according to his Ways, ¹and according to the fruit of his Doings.

More particularly, Sins of Consesequence, whereby others are drawn to Sin, will heighten the Guilt, and the retribution of Justice will be to every Man according to his Ways, ¹and according to the fruit of his Doings.

1. 1Jer. 17.10.

This will principally concern Superiors in eminency of Place, whose Dignity has always a concomitant proportion of Duty. Their vicious Actions are Examples, and their Examples more powerful Rules than their Laws, and give countenance to others to sin licentiously. They sin with an high Hand, and involve the Ruin of innumerable Persons that depend upon them. As the Dragon in the Revelation, whose Fall from Heaven drew a Train of lesser Stars with him. And all inferior Magistrates, who by personal commission, or partial connivance, encourage and harden others in Sin, and by their Power discountenance serious Religion, and obstruct the Progress of ⟨p. 207⟩it, heap up Damnation to themselves.

This will principally concern Superiours in eminency of Place, whose Dignity has always a concomitant proportion of Duty. Their vicious Actions are Examples, and their Examples more powerful Rules than their Laws, and give countenance to others to sin licentiously. They sin with an high Hand, and involve the Ruin of innumerable Persons that depend upon them. As the Dragon in the Revelation, whose Fall from Heaven drew a Train of lesser Stars with him. And all inferiour Magistrates, who by personal commission, or partial connivance, encourage and harden others in Sin, and by their Power discountenance serious Religion, and obstruct the Progress of