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

Now then again, seeing you have thus to do with the great God alone for ever, let every one of us prepare to meet our God. ¹This necessarily puts you upon seeking of him here in this World, and to seek that Face and favour of his, in which alone is Life. You must therefore also give up your Souls unto him here, to live in him, as in your chiefest Good, and not in your Lusts; and to live to him, as your highest End and constant Interest; and as whose Glory should act and steer you in all your ways; and not unto your selves. And therefore you, that have neglected this great God, or served him but in Formality and Hypocrisy, (which in Scripture hath the denomination of those that forget God) who never knew what it is to have intimate Communion and Fellowship with him through Faith in Prayer and other Converses, joined with hearty Love ⟨p. 225⟩unto him, and to the Interest of his Glory: Think, O think with your selves, when you come to die, that you must go to him, and be with him for ever, in that sense I have given. Think with thy self thus: My Soul will be turned naked out of this World, and there is nothing, no not a Rag of any of the Comforts I pursue after here, which shall be carried with it from hence; but it is the great God I must be turned naked unto, and appear afore; and if my Soul be found naked of his Image too, (which to have renewed in me was the only Errand he sent my Soul for into this World) and if I bring not that along with me, as my current Token, Ticket, and Pass into the other World, there will not be a dwelling-place of Bliss for me, to receive me into; not such an one as the Apostle speaks of for the Comfort of the Saints, 2 Cor. 5. 1, 3. We know that if our earthly Tabernacle be dissolved, we have a Building of God; if so be we shall not be found naked, v. 3. that is, devoid of his Image, as also of Christ's Righteousness. But instead thereof this great God will be unto me as a Furnace, and I must dwell with those everlasting Burnings spoken of, even for ever.

Now then again, seeing you have thus to do with the great God alone for ever, let every one of us prepare to meet our God. ¹This necessarily puts you upon seeking of him here in this World, and to seek that Face and favour of his, in which alone is Life. You must therefore also give up your Souls unto him here, to live in him, as in your chiefest Good, and not in your Lusts; and to live to him, as your highest End and constant Interest; and as whose Glory should act and steer you in all your ways; and not unto your selves. And therefore you, that have neglected this great God, or served him but in Formality and Hypocrisy, (which in Scripture hath the denomination of those that forget God) who never knew what it is to have intimate Communion and Fellowship with him through Faith in Prayer and other Converses, joined with hearty Love