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. The Conscience in a fearful manner shall torment the damned: ¹May we not conclude Conscience will terrify them after this manner? O thou Wretch, what a God hast thou lost, (who is a most infinite, suitable, seasonable, and a Soul-satisfying Good! what a Christ art thou deprived of, who died for poor Sinners! how often did he knock at thy Door, calling upon thee, entreating thee to let him in, who stood with his Arms spread open to embrace all that came to him! and what a Heaven and endless Joy hast thou contemned, and this for one base Lust, for brutish Pleasure for a moment, for a little Earthly Profit, and sinful Honour! How didst thou hearken to thy vile Companions, and close in with them, rather than adhere to me, who accused thee for thy cursed Evils! thou wouldst not mind those Checks and Lashes thou hadst from me in thy Bosom; did not I tell thee what thy Pride, thy Lying, thy Swearing, thy Whoring, thy Theft, thy Cheating, thy Covetousness, and Cruelty to the Poor, or Unmercifulness, thy Neglect of the means of Grace, and of Gospel or Christian Duties, thy Hardness of Heart, thy Unbelief, thy Hypocrisy and Formality, would bring thee to in the End? This is the gnawing Worm that dyeth not: O how fearfully will Conscience terrify and torment the Soul of the Damned then! now it is Blinded, Misled, Deceived, may be seared with a hot Iron; but then it will be throughly awakened, and all Veils taken off; it will lay unmerciful Blows upon the Soul, and make it cry, yea, roar, and none to speak a word to allay or appease its Acclamations and its fearful Outcries: You may judge of the Nature of a Tormenting Conscience in Hell, by what those have found and experienced to be the Effects of it, who have been under Desperation in this World.

1. The Conscience in a fearful manner shall torment the damned: ¹May we not conclude Conscience will terrifie them after this manner? O thou Wretch, what a God hast thou lost, (who is a most infinite, suitable, seasonable, and a Soul-satisfying Good! what a Christ art thou deprived of, who died for poor Sinners! how often did he knock at thy Door, calling upon thee, intreating thee to let him in, who stood with his Arms spread open to embrace all that came to him! and what a Heaven and endless Joy hast thou contemned, and this for one base Lust, for bruitish Pleasure for a moment, for a little Earthly Profit, and sinful Honour! How didst thou hearken to thy vile Companions, and close in with them, rather than adhere to me, who accused thee for thy cursed Evils! thou wouldst not mind those Checks and Lashes thou hadst from me in thy Bosom; did not I tell thee what thy Pride, thy Lying, thy Swearing, thy Whoreing, thy Theft, thy Cheating, thy Covetousness, and Cruelty to the Poor, or Unmercifulness, thy Neglect of the means of Grace, and of Gospel or Christian Duties, thy Hardness of Heart, thy Unbelief, thy Hypocrisie and Formality, would bring thee to in the End? This is the gnawing Worm that dyeth not: O how fearfully will Conscience terrifie and torment the Soul of the Damned then! now it is Blinded, Misled, Deceived, may be seared with a hot Iron; but then it will be throughly awakened, and all Vails taken off; it will lay unmerciful Blows upon the Soul, and make it cry, yea, roar, and none to speak a word to allay or appease its Acclamations and its fearful Outcries: You may judge of the Nature of a Tormenting Conscience in Hell, by what those have found and experienced to be the Effects of it, who have been under Desparation in this World.