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Now manifold Uses may be made of this, but I shall instance only in one here,

Now manifold Uses may be made of this, but I shall instance onely in one here,

Of Instruction. Here is a plain and evident discovery of the madness and folly of wicked men, that will drink, swear, and walk in all their brutish lusts. What hast thou not heard of this destruction from God? What dost thou not believe that after all these pleasures of sin, God will destroy thee? We would wonder what a senseless, brutish and irrational a creature a wicked man is, that should be no more afraid of this destruction. Tell him of a temporal undoing, he shall be undone in his estate, in his life, and you make his heart as cold as a stone within him; but tell him soul and body shall be undone in fire and brimstone, and that for ever, he makes no matter of it; And why is all this? Either

Of Instruction. Here is a plain and evident discovery of the madnesse and folly of wicked men, that will drink, swear, and walk in all their bruitish lusts. What hast thou not heard of this destruction from God? What dost thou not believe that after all these pleasures of sinne, God will destroy thee? We would wonder what a senslesse, bruitish and irrational a creature a wicked man is, that should be no more afraid of this destruction. Tell him of a temporal undoing, he shall be undone in his estate, in his life, and you make his heart as cold as a stone within him; but tell him soul and body shall be undone in fire and brimstone, and that for ever, he makes no matter of it; And why is all this? Either

First, Because of the Atheism and unbelief that is in men. Though Christ hath again and again threatened such a place of torment, yet they will not believe it.O if we had but faith as a grain of mustard-seed, it would remove these mountains of sin! Or