Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

5. Consider, That you must repent and mourn for sin here, or you will be damned and burn for sin for ever; You cannot avoid grief for sin, if you have it not in this world, you will be sure to have it in the other world; And is it not a thousand-fold more eligible to grieve for sin here? especially considering,

1. If you repent of sin now, your grief will not be in extremity: it will have some allay, some alleviation, some mixture of secret comfort, at least something will be given in to support, when you are even ready to be overwhelmed: when the heart is most broken and contrite under the sense of sin and apprehensions of Gods wrath, yet God will not suffer the Spirit to fail before him, Isa. 57. 15, 16. the Lord will keep up the soul from quite sinking: and I am confident, that such persons as are most heavy laden with grief for sin, would not change their condition when at the lowest ebb, with the most prosperous worldling: But if you repent not till hereafter, your grief will be extreme, without the least mixture of comfort or support. In hell you will have nothing but weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth; you will be there utterly consumed with terrors, quite overwhelmed with sorrows, & be always sinking in ⟨p. 255⟩the bottomless-pit under the weight of grief, which will be un-supportable.

1. If you repent of sin now, your grief will not be in extremity: it will have some allay, some alleviation, some mixture of secret comfort, at least something will be given in to support, when you are even ready to be overwhelmed: when the heart is most broken and contrite under the sense of sin and apprehensions of Gods wrath, yet God will not suffer the Spirit to fail before him, Isa. 57. 15, 16. the Lord will keep up the soul from quite sinking: and I am confident, that such persons as are most heavie laden with grief for sin, would not change their condition when at the lowest ebb, with the most prosperous worldling: But if you repent not till hereafter, your grief will be extream, without the least mixture of comfort or support. In hell you will have nothing but weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth; you will be there utterly consumed with terrours, quite overwhelmed with sorrows, & be alwaies sinking in