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Secondly, is it so, that all the perplexities and anguishes of the righteous shall end in joy? Is this a privilege and prerogative peculiar unto them? then how wretched and woeful is the condition of all the ungodly ones of the world, whose sorrow shall end in sorrow, and who shall go ⟨p. 185⟩from their present pain and grief unto perpetual tortures and torments in hell fire? let them make merry, and be as jocund as they will for a time, and seek to put away melancholy fits, as they term them; they have a crop growing, as well as Gods children: but what is that? even a crop of shame, and horror, and anguish, which shall seize upon their souls at unawares, and that to their everlasting ruin, and the utter destruction of their bodies and souls for evermore. And therefore as the godly are to be exhorted not to envy the prosperity of the wicked, though they flourish for a season; so are the ungodly to be admonished that they do not esteem Gods Children to be miserable, albeit they be in heaviness for a time: ¹for their light and momentany afflictions shall be recompensed with a far most excellent and eternal weight of joy and of glory: whereas the short and vain delights of wicked sinners shall be infinitely overpoised and weighed down with the unsupportable miseries, which, if not in this world, yet in that which is to come, they shall most certainly meet withal.

Secondly, is it so, that all the perplexities and anguishes of the righteous shall end in ioy? Is this a priuiledge and prerogatiue peculiar vnto them? then how wretched and wofull is the condition of al the vngodly ones of the world, whose sorrow shall end in sorrow, and who shall goe ⟨p. 185⟩from their present paine and griefe vnto perpetuall tortures and torments in hell fire? let them make merrie, and bee as iocund as they will for a time, and seeke to put away melancholie fits, as they tearme them; they haue a crop growing, as well as Gods children: but what is that? euen a crop of shame, and horrour, and anguish, which shall seize vpon their soules at vnawares, and that to their euerlasting ruine, and the vtter destruction of their bodies and soules for euermore. And therefore as the godly are to bee exhorted not to enuie the prosperity of the wicked, though they flourish for a season; so are the vngodly to bee admonished that they doe not esteeme Gods Children to be miserable, albeit they be in heauinesse for a time: