2. And yet though this be a doleful case, it is not the worst case your own sinful fears will cast you into, except the Lord overcome and extinguish them in you by the fear of his name, they will not only bring you into a kind of hell upon earth, but into hell it self for evermore: For so the righteous God hath said in his word of truth, Rev. 21. 8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, &c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Behold here, the Marshal Law of Heaven, executed upon Cowards and Renegadoes, whose fears make them revolt from Christ in the time of danger. Think upon this you timorous & fainthearted professors; you cannot bear the thoughts of lying in a nasty Dungeon, how will you lie then in the lake of fire and brimstone? You are afraid of the face and frowns of a man that shall die, but how will you live among Devils? Is the wrath of man, like the fury of God poured out? Is not the little finger of God heavier than the loins of all the Tyrants in the World? Remember what Christ hath said, Matth. 10. 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven. Reader, The time is coming when he that spake these words shall break out of Heaven with a shout, accompanied with myriads of Angels, and ten thousands of his Saints, the Heavens and the Earth shall be in dreadful conflagrations round about him: The last Trump shall sound, the Graves shall open, the Earth and Sea shall give up the dead that are in them. Thine eyes shall see him ascend the awful throne of judgment, his faithful ones that feared not to own and appear for him in the face of all enemies and dangers, sitting on the bench as Assessors with him; and then to be disclaimed and renounced for ever by Jesus Christ in the ⟨p. 76⟩face of that great assembly, and proclaimed a delinquent, a Traitor to him, that deniedst his name, and truths, because of the frowns of a fellow Creature long since withered as the grass; O how wilt thou be able to endure this! now put both these together in thy serious consideration, think on the terrors of Conscience here, and the desperate horror of it in Hell; thi• as a parboiling, that as a roasting in the flames of Gods insufferable wrath: These as some scalding drops sprinkled before hand upon thy Conscience, that tender and sensible part of man;
2. And yet though this be a doleful case, it is not the worst case your own sinful fears will cast you into, except the Lord overcome and extinguish them in you by the fear of his name, they will not only bring you into a kind of hell upon earth, but into hell it self for evermore: For so the righteous God hath said in his word of truth, Rev. 21. 8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, &c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Behold here, the Marshal Law of Heaven, executed upon Cowards and Renegadoes, whose fears make them revolt from Christ in the time of danger. Think upon this you timorous & fainthearted professors; you cannot bear the thoughts of lying in a nasty Dungeon, how will you lie then in the lake of fire and brimstone? You are afraid of the face and frowns of a man that shall die, but how will you live among Devils? Is the wrath of man, like the fury of God poured out? Is not the little finger of God heavier than the loyns of all the Tyrants in the World? Remember what Christ hath said, Matth. 10. 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven. Reader, The time is coming when he that spake these words shall break out of Heaven with a shout, accompanied with myriads of Angels, and ten thousands of his Saints, the Heavens and the Earth shall be in dreadful conflagrations round about him: The last Trump shall sound, the Graves shall open, the Earth and Sea shall give up the dead that are in them. Thine eyes shall see him ascend the awful throne of judgment, his faithful ones that feared not to own and appear for him in the face of all enemies and dangers, sitting on the bench as Assessors with him; and then to be disclaimed and renounced for ever by Jesus Christ in the ⟨p. 76⟩face of that great assembly, and proclaimed a delinquent, a Traitor to him, that deniedst his name, and truths, because of the frowns of a fellow Creature long since withered as the grass; O how wilt thou be able to endure this! now put both these together in thy serious consideration, think on the terrors of Conscience here, and the desperate horror of it in Hell; thi• as a perboiling, that as a roasting in the flames of Gods insufferable wrath: These as some scalding drops sprinkled before hand upon thy Conscience, that tender and sensible part of man;
