Heaven upon earth, or, The best friend in the worst of times. Delivered in…

Quest. 6. What do you think will become of you, if after all this you go on in your old ways? what will become of you do you think if you should die without the knowledge of God? what hopes hath you of life in peace, if you bid defiance to the Lord of life, and contemn the Prince of peace? how shall you escape if you neglect so great salvation? what do you think that those which did once as you do now, slight Christ, and never look after Reconciliation with God, are now a doing in another world? what would you do in this case? should one come to you either out of Heaven, or out of Hell, how wonderfully do you think you should be affected with the Narration which they would give you of the affairs of the invisible world? why then will you not now be affected with what we say? for assure your selves, whatever you may think, our testimony is as true, and hath a better foundation of credit, then if one should tell you he ⟨p. 277⟩came from the dead, and speak to you of these things.

Quest. 7. Another Question I would propound to you, is this; Are you willing to bear the displeasure of God? can you undergo the weight of that wrath which made his back to ache, who was mighty to do and suffer? can you with any patience hear that dreadful word pronounced by the mouth of that Judg, which will see to the execution of his sentence, Depart from me ye cursed unto everlasting torment; Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, for I know you not? Can you endure without any trouble that scalding hot wrath which is abundantly more painful then Fire and Brimstone, more intolerable then to be shut up in a burning fiery Furnace, or to be boiled in a Caldron of melted Lead, or whatsoever torments the wit of men or Devils can invent? Can you with any patience bear the Stone, Gout, Toothache, Colic, or some such distempers of body which last but for a while? O how long do you think the time when you are in that condition? how do you toss and tumble? what lamentable moan do you make? do not you think you can't be too much pitied in that condition? how then will you be able to lie down in those torments, the least drop of which is abundantly more painful then the greatest torment that ever you felt in your life? If these seem dreadful to you, why do you not go the way to avoid them? which is by getting an interest in him who hath the Keys of Hell at his griddle; for there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, to them that are brought into a state of Reconciliation and Acquaintance with God by his Son our Mediator.