A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

4. Here there can be no shifting, no avoiding the Danger. If you fly from God, you do but fly to God; from God, as willing to be a Friend; to God, who is sure to be revenged. Whither shall I fly from thy Spirit? If I go into the Depths, thou art there: Psal. 139. God is here, there, and every where.

5. All other Debts cease at Death; when a Man dyeth, we say his Debts are paid: but here Execution begins, then the Law takes the Sinner by the Throat, and drags him to everlasting Punishment, and doth in effect say, pay me what thou owest. Death is God's Arrest. As soon as the Soul steps out of the World, presently 'tis attached and seized, and forfeited into the Hands of God's Justice. How many are there that lie under this Danger and never think of it! Spiritual Debts they are not so sensible of, as literal. A Man that's deeply in debt, and in danger of an Arrest, cannot sleep, eat, walk abroad, but his Fears are upon him. Augustus bought his Quilt, ⟨p. 350⟩or Bed, that could sleep soundly when he owed so many thousand Sesterces. But poor senseless Sinners never think of danger until they are plunged into it, and then there's no escape.

5. All other Debts cease at Death; when a Man dyeth, we say his Debts are paid: but here Execution begins, then the Law takes the Sinner by the Throat, and drags him to everlasting Punishment, and doth in effect say, pay me what thou owest. Death is God's Arrest. Assoon as the Soul steps out of the World, presently 'tis attached and seized, and forfeited into the Hands of God's Justice. How many are there that lie under this Danger and never think of it! Spiritual Debts they are not so sensible of, as literal. A Man that's deeply in debt, and in danger of an Arrest, cannot sleep, eat, walk abroad, but his Fears are upon him. Augustus bought his Quilt, ⟨p. 350⟩or Bed, that could sleep soundly when he owed so many thousand Sestercies. But poor sensless Sinners never think of danger until they are plunged into it, and then there's no escape.