Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

MEDITATION.

Consider, What it is to die, and what the State and Condition of the other World is. It is to have to do with God immediately, either in Wrath or Love; and from his own hands, as well as from the immediate Sentence of his Mouth, to receive thy Weal or Woe.—That we come naked into this World, and go as naked out of it, was Job's Meditation first; after that David's, Psal. 49. 15. We shall carry nothing away, that is, of what belongs to this World; then after him Solomon the Son, Eccles. 5. 15. As he came forth of his Mothers Womb (speaking of Man) naked shall he return, to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his Labour, which he may carry away in his Hand. The Effect of which divine Meditation comes to this, To put secure and careless Man upon the consideration of his immortal Souls Condition, which first cometh into this World naked (as well as his Body:) And poor thing! the meaning of its first cry (if the Soul it self could then speak out its mind) is, I am an empty thing, and have brought nothing with me; who will show me any good? But after its being grown up, it begins to find a World richly ⟨p. 219⟩furnished with all things to enjoy, as the Apostle's Phrase is, 1 Tim. 6. 17. But yet again when he goes out of this World, he is then turned out of House and Home, as perfectly naked as he came into it: and as Rev. 18. 14. The Fruits that thy Soul lusted after, and all things which are dainty and goodly, are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. Death is therefore compared unto the breaking or failing of a Merchant or Tradesman proving Bankrupt,