Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

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 ⟨p. 243⟩sinners, it is but an idle fancy to join Heaven to the end of a sinful course; no! the footsteps of sin will certainly take hold of Hell; and without holiness none shall see God; and as one saith, Sooner may Angels turn Devils, Men beasts, and Beasts stones, and all the World just nothing, than that an unholy Person should have an entrance into Heaven; yea, and that it is as possible that God should cease to be God, as that any Man, not made after the Image of God, should be received into the blessed Vision, Possession and fruition of him in Glory. Sinners, if there be no room for you in Heaven, and your entrance there is impossible, whilst you are in a state of nature; then your punishment in Hell is sure, which methinks should awaken you.

Awake sinners, awake! are not all your hopes of happiness in the uncertain and empty Cisterns of the Creatures meet dreams, when such dreadfull miseries are so surely prepared for you? and what senseless dreames 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 joyn these things together which God hath never joyned. is like the senseless fancies in the sleep of strange Chimaeraes and Monsters, which nature never produced: Awake ⟨p. 243⟩sinners, it is but an idle fancy to joyn Heaven to the end of a sinful course; no! the footsteps of sin will certainly take hold of Hell; and without holiness none shall see God; and as one saith, Sooner may Angels turn Devils, Men beasts, and Beasts stones, and all the World just nothing, than that an unholy Person should have an entrance into Heaven; yea, and that it is as possible that God should cease to be God, as that any Man, not made after the Image of God, should be received into the blessed Vision, Possession and fruition of him in Glory. Sinners, if there be no room for you in Heaven, and your entrance there is impossible, whilst you are in a state of nature; then your punishment in Hell is sure, which methinks should awaken you.