An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Judgement is but reserved, and the instruments of it, snow and hail, &c. kept up for a while. Prodigals and spend-thrifts may boast, but the date of the bond will come out, and then an arrest comes. Let sinners remember, the instruments of divine vengeance are only reserved, they are not broken nor cast away; and whosoever are found in sin, their sin (that is the punishment of their sin) sooner or later will find them out (Numb. 32.23.) As God sometimes defers to give out mercy to his faithful people, but never denies it them; so he often defers the trouble of the wicked, but never (they continuing to do wickedly) acquits them from it. The Apostle Peter prophesying of false teachers, who shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and shall bring upon themselves swift destruction (2 Pet. 2.1.) saith of them also (v. 3.) Whose judgement now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. Though all seems to be well with them at present, and hath been so a long time, yet their misery is certain; it neither lingers nor slumbers, as to the Lords time, though it may seem to have done both, in theirs. The wicked, how long soever they escape judgement, are not preserved from it, but only reserved to it, as followeth in the fourth and ninth verse of that Chapter. As the fallen angels are reserved in everlasting chains of darkness, (that is, in chains that will hold them fast enough for ever) unto the Judgement of the Great Day, or to the Great Day of Judgement: Which intimates two things concerning the fallen Angels.

Judgement is but reserved, and the instruments of it, snow and hail, &c. kept up for a while. Prodigals and spend-thrifts may boast, but the date of the bond will come out, and then an arrest comes. Let sinners remember, the instruments of divine vengeance are only reserved, they are not broken nor cast away; and whosoever are found in sin, their sin (that is the punishment of their sin) sooner or later will find them out (Numb. 32.23.) As God sometimes defers to give out mercy to his faithful people, but never denies it them; so he often defers the trouble of the wicked, but never (they continuing to do wickedly) acquits them from it. The Apostle Peter prophesying of false teachers, who shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and shall bring upon themselves swift destruction (