Heaven and Hell will as soon be agreed, as God and such a one shall be united. The ⟨p. 356⟩proud now overlook others that are their betters, and scorn their Maker; but shortly they shall be paid in their own coin, they shall be scorned too. If all the proud Nimrods, Pharaohs and Belshazzars in the world should enter into a League, and combine against the Almighty, and say, they will cast away his Cords from them, and that they will never debase their noble Spirits so low as to stoop to his commands; yet none of them all shall go unpunished: They shall be like stubble before the devouring flames, and like Chase before a mighty whirlwind: God is not afraid of their big looks, Prov. 21.4. Prov. 6.17. Prov. 15.25. Isa. 2.12. Luke 1.51. Jam. 4.6. God will clothe himself with vengeance, and the mighty Jehovah will gird his weapon upon his thigh, and march out in fury and Indignation, and draw his glittering Sword, and resist the proud, and teach them what it is to bid defiance to the Lord of Host. We shall soon see, who shall be uppermost, God or they. And when the proud sinner lies conquered at his feet, how doth he with infinite scorn look upon him, and say, behold, the man is become like one of us! This 'tis for man to attempt the dethroning of the Almighty! But it may be, most may think themselves little concerned in that which I now speak; wherefore I must add this one word. Be it known unto thee, O man, whosoever thou art, that thinkest thou hast no pride; I am sure thou art one of those that are in that black Roll which have proclaimed War against Heaven; thou art the man that shall never be acquainted with God whilst thou art in that mind. It may be thou mayest speak Peace to thy self for all this, and ⟨p. 357⟩flatter thy self as if God and you were Friends; but let me tell thee, I come with heavy tidings in my mouth to thee: If thou turn not, he will whet his Sword, he hath bent his Bow, and made it ready, he hath prepared for thee the Instruments of death, the day of thy Calamity is near: The dreadful Jehovah is upon his march; and if you ask me whether there be not Peace for thee, I answer as Jehu did to Jchoram, what peace, O haughty sinner, so long as the pride of thy heart is so great, and thy Rebellions against thy Maker so many? There is no peace saith my God to the wicked.
Heaven and Hell will as soon be agreed, as God and such a one shall be united. The ⟨p. 356⟩proud now overlook others that are their betters, and scorn their Maker; but shortly they shall be paid in their own coyn, they shall be scorned too. If all the proud Nimrods, Pharaohs and Belshazzars in the world should enter into a League, and combine against the Almighty, and say, they will cast away his Cords from them, and that they will never debase their noble Spirits so low as to stoop to his commands; yet none of them all shall go unpunished: They shall be like stubble before the devouring flames, and like Chasse before a mighty whirlwind: God is not afraid of their big looks, Prov. 21.4. Prov. 6.17. Prov. 15.25. Isa. 2.12. Luke 1.51. Jam. 4.6. God will cloath himself with vengeance, and the mighty Jehovah will gird his weapon upon his thigh, and march out in fury and Indignation, and draw his glittering Sword, and resist the proud, and teach them what it is to bid defiance to the Lord of Host. We shall soon see, who shall be uppermost, God or they. And when the proud sinner lies conquered at his feet, how doth he with infinite scorn look upon him, and say, behold, the man is become like one of us! This 'tis for man to attempt the dethroning of the Almighty! But it may be, most may think themselves little concerned in that which I now speak; wherefore I must add this one word. Be it known unto thee, O man, whosoever thou art, that think'st thou hast no pride; I am sure thou art one of those that are in that black Roll which have proclaimed War against Heaven; thou art the man that shall never be acquainted with God whilst thou art in that mind. It may be thou maist speak Peace to thy self for all this, and ⟨p. 357⟩flatter thy self as if God and you were Friends; but let me tell thee, I come with heavy tydings in my mouth to thee: If thou turn not, he will whet his Sword, he hath bent his Bow, and made it ready, he hath prepared for thee the Instruments of death, the day of thy Calamity is near: The dreadful Jehovah is upon his march; and if you ask me whether there be not Peace for thee, I answer as Jehu did to Jchoram, what peace, O haughty sinner, so long as the pride of thy heart is so great, and thy Rebellions against thy Maker so many? There is no peace saith my God to the wicked.
