God's terrible voice in the city

yet, if they proceed in their sinful course, his arm I am persuaded will come down with such force and fury upon them, that their destruction shall be remarkable to all that are round about them: and I have much of that persuasion, that the Lord will as it were hang up many of the villains of our times, who have been guilty of such treachery and rebellion against the great King of heaven, as it were in chains, and make their punishment here as notorious as their sins have been, that the whole World may hear and fear, and take heed of such vile practises: I suppose they may not now expect it, nor fear it, no more than the old World did their drowning, or Sodom ⟨p. 82⟩and Gomorrah did their burning, because deceitful sin hath hardened their hearts; long custom in sin, with impunity hath seared their consciences, as with a hot Iron: but then they are in the greatest danger, when they sleep with the greatest security; when Men grow desperately hardened against often, and all reproofs, by word, and rod too, what follows, but sudden destruction and that without remedy? Prov. 29. 1. and when men cry peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travel upon a Woman with child, and they shall not escape, 1 Thess. 5. 3. And if some of this untoward and wicked Generation do drop away without a remarkable temporal destruction; God will make his righteousness evident to them, in the other World, when he claps up their souls close Prisoners in the lowest dungeon of Hell, appointing black Devils to be their Jailers, flames of fire to be their clothing, hideous terrors and woe to be their food, Cain, Judas, and other damned tormented spirits to be their companions, where they must lye bound in chains of darkness, till the judgment of the great day;

yet, if they proceed in their sinfull course, his arm I am perswaded will come down with such force and fury upon them, that their destruction shall be remarkable to all that are round about them: and I have much of that perswasion, that the Lord will as it were hang up many of the villains of our times, who have been guilty of such treachery and rebellion against the great King of heaven, as it were in chains, and make their punishment here as notorious as their sins have been, that the whole World may hear and fear, and take heed of such vile practises: I suppose they may not now expect it, nor fear it, no more than the old World did their drowning, or Sodom