Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

When they shall throw into their thoughts such hideous apprehensions, and lash their spirits with horrible scourges, when they shall seize upon their bodies, and tear them, and drag them to the Judgment-seat, and there is none to rescue and deliver them.

3. The third Antecedent to the judgment of the wicked, will be their meeting one with another; as the Elect, so all the reprobates will be gathered together into one company; O what an innumerable company of Rebels, and Traitors, and Villains, will then be got together! how fiercely and horribly will they look one upon another? and if they speak, what language of Hell will there issue forth of their lips? they may meet with their old companions and fellow-sinners, but it will not be like such as they now call meetings of good-fellowship, when they get together in a Tavern and Ale-house, or some house of wickedness, to drink, and sing, and dance, and sin, and make merry in the pleasing of their flesh; they shall not then have Ale, and Wine, and Women, and Music, or any incentives to mirth and sensual pleasures; the last meeting will be no merry meeting, but sad and dismal; the pleasing affections which they formerly had to their friends will be changed; their love will be turned into hatred; and the joy they have found in them will be turned into grief and anger; O the angry countenances the wicked will have on that day! it is said, the Nations shall be angry; O the angry speeches! how will they rage and storm at one another? especially at those who have drawn them into sin, ⟨p. 53⟩how will they curse and ban one another? O the horrible noise that▪ will be amongst the damned crew when they are got together! It may be from words they fall to blows, and tear one another's •air, and spurn at one another's bellies, and bite one another's flesh, and even claw out one another's eyes; we cannot conjecture so much of the misery of the wicked, as will be on that day.

3. The third Antecedent to the judgment of the wicked, will be their meeting one with another; as the Elect, so all the reprobates will be gathered together into one company; O what an innumerable company of Rebels, and Traytors, and Villains, will then be got together! how fiercely and horribly will they look one upon another? and if they speak, what language of Hell will there issue forth of their lips? they may meet with their old companions and fellow-sinners, but it will not be like such as they now call meetings of good-fellowship, when they get together in a Tavern and Ale-house, or some house of wickedness, to drink, and sing, and daunce, and sin, and make merry in the pleasing of their flesh; they shall not then have Ale, and Wine, and Women, and Musick, or any incentives to mirth and sensual pleasures; the last meeting will be no merry meeting, but sad and dismal; the pleasing affections which they formerly had to their friends will be changed; their love will be turned into hatred; and the joy they have found in them will be turned into grief and anger; O the angry countenances the wicked will have on that day! it is said, the Nations shall be angry; O the angry speeches! how will they rage and storm at one another? especially at those who have drawn them into sin,