Use 3. Terror to every wicked person, who exhausts his strength in sin: his time here is short, and then begins his Hell. ⟨p. 27⟩He spends his life in a frolic; he takes the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoiceth at the sound of the Organ, Job 21. 12. But the time is shortly coming, when all his mirth shall cease, Rev. 18 22, The voice of the Harpers, and Musicians, and Trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee. The Grave buries all a sinners joy. When a wicked man dies, the Devil gets a windfall. Satan (in Samuel's shape) said to Saul, 2 Sam. 28. 19, Thou shalt be with me to morrow. The Sinner is to day with his Lusts, and may be tomorrow with the Devil. Who would envy the wicked, their honour, or pleasure? they must pay dear for it. They have a short Feast, but a long Reckoning: for a drop of mirth, they must drink a Sea of wrath: and Who knows the power of that wrath? It was a saying of Cardinal Bellarmine, If a man had but a sight of Hell, it were enough to make an intemperate person sober. Hell is the emphasis of Torment. The Sacrifice of Jealousy was to have no Oil, nor Frankincense put to it, Numb. 5. 15. In ⟨p. 28⟩Hell is no Oil of Mercy put to the Torments of the wicked to lenify them; nor is there any Incense of Prayer to appease Gods wrath. Oh that sinners would in time break off their iniquities. What is become of their Intellectuals, have they sinned away Reason as well as Conscience? The time of life is short, but the torments of Hell are lengthened out; Rev. 14. 11, The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever.
Vse 3. Terror to every wicked person, who exhausts his strength in sin: his time here is short, and then begins his Hell. ⟨p. 27⟩He spends his life in a frolick; he takes the Timbrel and Harp, and rejoyceth at the sound of the Organ, Job 21. 12. But the time is shortly coming, when all his mirth shall cease, Rev. 18 22, The voice of the Harpers, and Musicians, and Trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee. The Grave buries all a sinners joy. When a wicked man dies, the Devil gets a windfal. Satan (in Samuel's shape) said to Saul, 2 Sam. 28. 19, Thou shalt be with meto morrow. The Sinner is to day with his Lusts, and may be tomorrow with the Devil. Who would envy the wicked, their honour, or pleasure? they must pay dear for it. They have a short Feast, but a long Reckoning: for a drop of mirth, they must drink a Sea of wrath: and Who knows the power of that wrath? It was a saying of Cardinal Bellarmine, If a man had but a sight of Hell, it were enough to make an intemperate person sober. Hell is the emphasis of Torment. The Sacrifice of Jealousy was to have no Oyl, nor Frankincense put to it, Numb. 5. 15. In ⟨p. 28⟩Hell is no Oyl of Mercy put to the Torments of the wicked to lenify them; nor is there any Incense of Prayer to appease Gods wrath. Oh that sinners would in time break off their iniquities. What is become of their Intellectuals, have they sinned away Reason as well as Conscience? The time of life is short, but the torments of Hell are lengthened out; Rev. 14. 11, The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever.
