Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

6. Awake sinners, awake! The execution of the Sentence, which Christ will pronounce upon you for your sins at the last day, will be in Hell: and do you know what Hell is? what tongue can express the future torments, which the damned shall endure? what heart can conceive the miseries, which God hath prepared for sinners in Hell? yet look into the Perspective-Glass of the Word, and you may perceive something of the dreadfulness of the punishment, which will be inflicted upon you, if you be found in your sins at Christs second appearance.

1. Sinners, consider the greatness of the punishment; you must dwell with devouring Fire, and inhabit most horrible burnings; and think with your selves how you will be able to endure, to have those bodies (unto whom the prick of a Pin is so irksome, and a little scorch of a culinary Fire is so painful) cast into the great Furnace of Fire, which God will kindle with his breath; which will turn them it may be, into a burning Coal, that shall not waste, neither ever be co• summed; ⟨p. 241⟩be sure will torment them with a thousand-fold more acute sense of pain, than the body is capable now of feeling, under the most exquisite torments; think what the overwhelming grief, what the horrible anxiety, what the despairful agonies, what the hideous terror and unexpressible anguish of your souls will be under the immediate sense of Gods wrath and indignation, and the thoughts of that glory and happiness of Heaven (once proffered unto you, but refused by you) which you will then perceive your selves shut out from for ever.

1. Sinners, consider the greatness of the punishment; you must dwell with devouring Fire, and inhabit most horrible burnings; and think with your selves how you will be able to endure, to have those bodies (unto whom the prick of a Pin is so irksome, and a little scorch of a culinary Fire is so painful) cast into the great Furnace of Fire, which God will kindle with his breath; which will turn them it may be, into a burning Coal, that shall not waste, neither ever be co• sumed;