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…

Whatever the wounded Sinner sees and hears (saith a worthy Minister) afflicts him, whatever he thinks of, torments him; all the diversions in the World, Business, Pleasures, Merry Conversations, Comedies, are as ineffectual to give him freedom from those stings and furies in his breasts, as the sprinkling of holy Water is to expel the Devil from a possessed Person; those who in their Pride and Jollity have despised serious Religion, either as a fond Transport and Ecstasy, or a dull Melancholy and Dejection about the Soul, &c. yet when God has set their sins, with all their killing circumstances, before their Eyes, how changed, how confounded are they at that apparition! how restless in the dreadful expectation of the doom that attends them! But alas, alas, what is internal Wrath let out on the Soul in Hell, as he notes? for the Apprehensions of the Soul will be enlarged, and their spirits work with the quickest activity: Here tho' they have no hope at present, yet they know not what God may do in a moment to turn their Sorrow into Joy, and their Night into Noon-day; here are many things to divert their thoughts, and they meet with some intermission of their horror and perplexity, as Mr. Child intimated, but in Hell there's none of this.

Whatever the wounded Sinner sees and hears (saith a worthy Minister) afflicts him, whatever he thinks of, torments him; all the diversions in the World, Business, Pleasures, Merry Conversations, Comedies, are as ineffectual to give him freedom from those stings and furies in his breasts, as the sprinkling of holy Water is to expel the Devil from a possessed Person; those who in their Pride and Jollity have despised serious Religion, either as a fond Transport and Extasie, or a dull Melancholly and Dejection about the Soul, &c. yet when God has set their sins, with all their killing circumstances, before their Eyes, how changed, how confounded are they at that apparition! how restless in the dreadful expectation of the doom that attends them! But alas, alas, what is internal Wrath let out on the Soul in Hell, as he notes? for the Aprehensions of the Soul will be enlarged, and their spirits work with the quickest activity: Here tho' they have no hope at present, yet they know not what God may do in a moment to turn their Sorrow into Joy, and their Night into Noon-day; here are many things to divert their thoughts, and they meet with some intermission of their horror and perplexity, as Mr. Child intimated, but in Hell there's none of this.