Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

2. Sinners, consider the sureness of the punishment of Hell; it is most certain that God hath prepared such a punishment, and it is certain that you shall endure this punishment, if you abide under the guilt, and persevere in the way of sin, which you now are walking in; God hath threatened this punishment, and his justice doth require it and his truth doth engage him to execute his threatened wrath, and inflict this deserved punishment upon you; and can you then have the least hopes to escape it? will God, can God prove a liar, to save you from the torments of Hell? I• it not equal that you should reap that which you have sown, that you should gather and taste the bitter fruits of your own evil ways? if you sow to the flesh, will not torment be the fruit hereof if you sow sin, will not you reap Hell?

2. Sinners, consider the sureness of the punishment of Hell; it is most certain that God hath prepared such a punishment, and it is certain that you shall endure this punishment, if you abide under the guilt, and persevere in the way of sin, which you now are walking in; God hath threatned this punishment, and his justice doth require it and his truth doth engage him to execute his threatned wrath, and inflict this deserved punishment upon you; and can you then have the least hopes to escape it? will God, can God prove a lyar, to save you from the torments of Hell? I• it not equal that you should reap that which you have sown, that you should gather and taste the bitter fruits of your own evil wayes? if you sowe to the flesh, will not torment be the fruit hereof• if you sowe sin, will not you reap Hell?

Awake sinners, awake! are not all your hopes of happiness in the uncertain and empty Cisterns of the Creatures meet dreams, when such dreadful miseries are so surely prepared for you? and what senseless dreams then are your hopes of Heaven and Salvation, whilst you are going on in the way of sin to Hell, and destruction? Is there any mercy for impenitents? Is there any pardon for unbelievers? Doth God love those which are haters of him? shall those live with him, who have no likeness unto him? to join these things together which God hath never joined. is like the senseless fancies in the sleep of strange Chimeras and Monsters, which nature never produced: Awake