Sermons upon death and eternal judgment

and all the Tears that flow from it, are so far from expiating, that they increase Guilt: and whereas the believing view of Christ would as completely and presently recover the Soul-wounded Sinner, as the Israelites were by looking to the ordained visible Sign of their Salvation; Despair turns away the Eye from ⟨p. 43⟩our Deliverer, and fixes it upon misery as remediless and final.

and all the Tears that flow from it, are so far from expiating, that they encrease Guilt: and whereas the believing view of Christ would as compleatly and presently recover the Soul-wounded Sinner, as the Israelites were by looking to the ordained visible Sign of their Salvation; Despair turns away the Eye from ⟨p. 43⟩our Deliverer, and fixes it upon misery as remediless and final.

4. How comes it to pass that Men are not always under the actual fear of Death, but subject to the revolutions of it all their Lives.

The Seeds of this Fear, are hid in the guilty Breasts of Men, and at times, especially in their Calamities, break forth and kindle upon them. In their leisure and Retirement, intercurrent thoughts of Death and Judgment sting them by fits, and make them uneasy. The flashes of Conscience, like moments of Lightning, startle them, but they relapse into their habitual stupidity. And the account of it will be clear, by considering the following Particulars.