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

This renders the Thoughts of Mortality so frightful, and checks the freest enjoyments of carnal Pleasures.

2. Death is fearful in the apprehension of Conscience, as 'tis the most sensible mark of God's Wrath, that is heavier than Death, and a Summons to give an account of all Things done in this Life, to the righteous Judg of the World.¹ 'Tis appointed to all Men once to die, and afterward the Judgment. The Penal Fear is more wounding to the Spirit than the Natural. When the awakened Sinner presently expects the Citation to appear before the Tribunal above, where no Excuses, no Supplications, no Privileges avail, where the Cause of eternal Life or Death must be decided, and the awards of Justice be immediately executed; O the Convulsions and Agonies of Conscience in that hour! when the diseased Body cannot live, and the disconsolate Soul dare not die, what Anxieties surround it? This redoubles the Terrors of Death, that the first transmits to the second that was figured by it. O the dismal aspect of Death riding on a pale Horse, with Hell the black Attendant following. This Fear surprised the Sinners in Zion. Who among us can dwell with devouring Fire? who among us can remain with everlasting burnings? This made a Heathen, the ⟨p. 25⟩Governor of a Province, to tremble before a poor Prisoner: While Paul discoursed of Righteousness, Temperance, ²and Judgment to come, Felix trembled. 'Tis a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the living God, who lives for ever, ³and can punish for ever. None is so powerful as God, nothing so fearful as the guilty Conscience.

2. Death is fearful in the apprehension of Conscience, as 'tis the most sensible mark of God's Wrath, that is heavier than Death, and a Summons to give an account of all Things done in this Life, to the righteous Judg of the World.