A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

1. These may be but the Fatherly Rebukes and Chastenings of the Almighty; not from a Sin-revenging hand, but a Sin-correcting hand of God; not in Wrath, but in Love; but if his Anger be so terrible when he chastises as a compassionate Father, what is his fury when he punishes as a severe Judge? if he deals thus sharply with those he loves, what will their portion be whom he hates? if his Wisdom leadeth him forth thus to correct in mercy, what will be the strokes of his Justice and incensed Wrath and Fury?

1. These may be but the Fatherly Rebukes and Chastenings of the Almighty; not from a Sin-revenging hand, but a Sin-correcting hand of God; not in Wrath, but in Love; but if his Anger be so terrible when he chastizes as a compassionate Father, what is his fury when he punishes as a severe Judge? if he deals thus sharply with those he loves, what will their portion be whom he hates? if his Wisdom leadeth him forth thus to corect in mercy, what will be the strokes of his Justice and incensed Wrath and Fury?

2. The Miseries of this present Life are abated, or mitigated with the mixture of some Sweet: None are so universally afflicted, so deplorable, but some thing remains to ease their sufferings and tormenting pains: Judgments are tempered with Mercies. No man (as one observes) is tortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends; besides, if the Malady be incurable and remediless, yet their grief is a little allayed by the Sympathy of Friends and Neighbours: But in Hell the damned are tortured and surrounded with pain and horror, and incompass'd with flames, without any mixture, nothing to refresh their distressed Souls and Bodies, no, not one drop of water to cool their Tongue. The rich Man desired but so much water that Lazarus could bring upon the tip of his finger, and it was denied him.

2. The Miseries of this present Life are abated, or mitigated with the mixture of some Sweet: None are so universally afflicted, so deplorable, but some thing remains to ease their sufferings and tormenting pains: Judgments are tempered with Mercys. No man (as one observes) is tortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends; besides, if the Malady be incurable and remediless, yet their grief is a little allayed by the Sympathy of Friends and Neighbours: But in Hell the damned are tortured and surrounded with pain and horror, and incompass'd with flames, without any mixture, nothing to refresh their distressed Souls and Bodies, no, not one drop of water to cool their Tongue. The rich Man desired but so much water that Lazarus could bring upon the tip of his finger, and it was denyed him.