The Sincere Convert

4. Then the Lord shall take his everlasting farewell of thee, and make thee know it too. Now God is departed from thee in this life, but he may return in mercy to thee again; but then the Lord departs with all his patience to wait for thee more, nor Christ shall be offered thee any more, ⟨p. 79⟩no spirit to strive with thee any more, and so shall pass sentence, though haply not vocally, yet effectually upon thy soul, and say, Depart thou cursed. Thou shalt see indeed the glory of God that others find, but to thy greater sorrow shalt never taste the same, Luke 13. 28.

4. Then the Lord shall take his everlasting farewell of thee, and make thee know it too. Now God is departed from thee in this life, but he may returne in mercy to thee againe; but then the Lord departs with all his patience to wait for thee more, nor Christ shall be offered thee any more, ⟨p. 79⟩no spirit to strive with thee any more, and so shall passesentence, though haply not vocally, yet effectually upon thy soule, and say, Depart thou cursed. Thou shalt see indeede the glory of God that others finde, but to thy greater sorrow shalt never taste the same, Luke 13. 28.

5. Then shall God surrender up thy §5forsaken soul into the hands of Devils, who being thy Jailers must keep thee till the great day of account; so that as thy friends are scrambling for thy goods, and worms for thy body, so Devils shall scramble for thy soul. For as soon as ever a wicked man is dead, he is either in heaven or in hell. Not in heaven, for no unclean thing comes there: if in hell, then among Devils, there shall be thine eternal lodging,