The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

¹Fifthly, Dost thou not know the misery of every carnal man at death. In thy life time thou doest the Devils work, and when Death cometh he will pay thee thy wages; sin at present is a Bee with honey in its mouth, but then the sting in its Tail will appear and be felt; now thou hast thy savoury Meat and sugared draughts, but then cometh the reckoning. Some tell us that sweet meats though pleasant to the taste, are very heavy in the stomach. Sure I am the sweet morsels of sin, which now thou feedest so merrily on, will then lye heavier then Lead on thy heart, and be more bitter then Gall and Wormwood; Thou mayst see now and then in this World through the floodgates, some drops of wrath leaking in upon thy soul, but when Death cometh, the Flood-gates will be all pulled up, and then, O then what a torrent of wrath will come pouring down upon thee. Here thou sippest of the Cup of the Lords fury, but then thou shalt drink the dregs thereof. The pains which thou sufferest here, are only an earnest penny of thy eternal punishment. It was a cruel mercy which Tamerlane showed to three hundred Lepers in killing them to rid them out of their misery; but Death will be altogether merciless and cruel to thee, for it only freeth thee from the Goal, to carry thee to the Gallows; twill deliver thee from Whips, but scourge the with Scorpions; its little finger will be infinitely heavier then the loins of this miserable life. When God saith to Death concerning thee, as Judas to the Jews concerning Christ, take him and ⟨p. 51⟩lead him away safely; who can tell the mockings, buffetings, piercings, scourgings, the cursed, painful, and shameful, eternal death which will ensue?

¹Fifthly, Dost thou not know the misery of every carnal man at death. In thy life time thou doest the Devils work, and when Death cometh he will pay thee thy wages; sin at present is a Bee with honey in its mouth, but then the sting in its Tail will appear and be felt; now thou hast thy savoury Meat and sugered draughts, but then cometh the reckoning. Some tell us that sweet meats though pleasant to the taste, are very heavy in the stomach. Sure I am the sweet morsels of sin, which now thou feedest so merrily on, will then lye heavier then Lead on thy heart, and be more bitter then Gall and Wormwood; Thou mayst see now and then in this World through the floodgates, some drops of wrath leaking in upon thy soul, but when Death cometh, the Flood-gates will be all puld up, and then, O then what a torrent of wrath will come pouring down upon thee. Here thou sippest of the Cup of the Lords fury, but then thou shalt drink the dregs thereof. The pains which thou sufferest here, are onely an earnest penny of thy eternal punishment. It was a cruel mercy which Tamberlane shewed to three hundred Lepers in killing them to rid them out of their misery; but Death will be altogether merciless and cruel to thee, for it onely freeth thee from the Goal, to carry thee to the Gallows; twil deliver thee from Whips, but scourge the with Scorpions; its little finger will be infinitely heavier then the loyns of this miserable life. When God saith to Death concerning thee, as Judas to the Jews concerning Christ, take him and