Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

IV. The worse thou art after such a judgement, The sooner God will be provoked to hast on thy destruction by some other. God hath not spent all his arrows in the late judgement, he hath his Quiver full still; and if thou go on when God giveth thee yet a space to repent, after so great a warning by the Plague, he will ere long cast thee into a bed of trouble, Rev. 2.21, 22. Thy increased wickedness is to Gods wrath, as the blast to the fire, will quickly blow it up into a flame; though thy conscience is asleep, yet thy damnation slumbereth not, 2 Pet. 2.1.3. while thou lingerest in thy sin, Gods judgements do not linger, but are upon the wing; and the worse thou art, the sooner will they befall thee, and be more heavy when they come. Jer. 48.16. The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

V. The worse thou growest, the more thou heapest up treasures of wrath, and every sin is adding to the pile of that fire by which thou must eternally be burned; temporal judgements might quickly befall thee, but if they do not, eternal damnation shall overtake thee; and the higher thou goest in wickedness, the lower thou shalt sink and lye in hell; God will proportion thy degrees of torments to thy growth and progress in sin. Now thou hast a treasure of sin, Mat. 12.35. And God hath his treasures of wrath, Deut. 32.34. ⟨p. 55⟩And as thou layest in sin, to the treasury of sin, so God layeth in wrath, to the treasury of wrath. ^*