Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

If thou art old, its high time to begin to prepare for thy latter end. Thou hast the feet of thy body almost already in the earth, in the grave; and hadst thou not need have the feet of thy soul, thy affections in heaven? Thou hast but a little time to converse with men; doth it not behove thee to be much in communion with God? Death often (possibly) knocketh at thy door by the hand of sickness, and warneth thee to look after another habitation, for thou art to be turned out of thy house of clay; Dost thou take warning? what wilt thou do, if thou shouldest dye before thou didst ever begin to live? If the Sun of thy life should set, before the Sun of righteousness hath arisen on thee, all the while thou livest thou art dead, and thou ⟨p. 192⟩livest long to add to thy torments, as others have died soon to hasten them. Thou art but like stubble, laid out a drying to burn the better in hell, all the while thou continuest a stranger to the new birth.

Thou hast every day been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; been gathering as it were more wood to increase those flames in which thou (if thou thus diest) shalt live for ever. Because judgement against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, it shall not go well with the wicked, Eccles. 8 11, 12, 23. The sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed, Isa. 65.20.

Thou hast every day been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; been gathering as it were more wood to increase those flames in which thou (if thou thus diest) shalt live for ever. Because judgement against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his dayes be prolonged, it shall not go well with the wicked,