Light in darkness, or, Deliverance proclaimed unto the church in the midst of all…

Inference 3.

See here the Great Difference between the Wicked and the Godly; there's a vast Difference; The Godly in all their Darkness that befalls them, they have some Light arising to them; the Wicked in all their outward Comforts, they have some Darkness arising to them; in the midst of all their Jollity and mirth, why still there's a Dark Cloud hangs over them: Conscience chides them, Scripture threatens them, (which is like the Hand-writing upon the Wall;) In Psal. 68. 21. God shall wound the Head of his Enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his Trespasses. A sinner still, in all his lightsome condition, his outward Mirth, his Joy, he may see some Clouds of Darkness: God's Threatenings are against him: God's Curse hangs over him, and that Curse it blasts wherever it comes. A wicked man, an impenitent hardened sinner, he goes every day in fear of Arresting; Death may Arrest him. There remains nothing for him, but [Greek or Hebrew]: A fearful looking for of Judgment, and ⟨p. 24⟩fiery indignation, as the Apostle says, in Heb. 10. 27. A hardened impenitent sinner is in an ill case; if he dies, he drops into the Grave and into Hell both at once. God is brewing for him a Deadly Cup. In Psal. 75. 8. In the hand of the Lord there is a Cup, and the Wine is Red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out the same: but the Dregs thereof all the Wicked of the Earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

See here the Great Difference between the Wicked and the Godly; there's a vast Difference; The Godly in all their Darkness that befalls them, they have some Light arising to them; the Wicked in all their outward Comforts, they have some Darkness arising to them; in the middst of all their Jollity and mirth, why still there's a Dark Cloud hangs over them: Conscience chides them, Scripture threatens them, (which is like the Hand-writing upon the Wall;) In