The beatitudes

6. He that wants Christ, hath no consolation; Christ is called the consolation of Israel, Luk. 2.25. A Christless soul is a comfortless soul; how can such a […] have comfort when he comes to dye? he is in debt, and hath no surety; his wounds bleed, and he hath no Physician; he sees the fire of Gods wrath approaching, and hath no screen to keep it off; he is like a ship in a tempest; sickness begins to make a tempest in his body, and sin to make a tempest in his conscience, and he hath nowhere to ⟨p. 430⟩put in for harbour; oh the terror and anguish of such a man at the hour of death! Isaiah 13.8. Their faces shall be as flames; an elegant expression! the meaning is, such fear and horror shall seize upon sinners in the evil day, that their countenances shall change, and be as pale as a flame; what are all the comforts of the world to a dying sinner? he looks upon his friends, but they cannot comfort him; bring him his bags of gold and silver, they are as smoke to sore eyes, it grieves him to part with them; bring him Music, what comfort is the Harp and Viol to a condemned man? There are in Spain Tarantula's venomous spiders, and those who are stung with them, are almost dead, and are cured with Music^*! but those that dye without Christ, who is the consolation of Israel, are in such hellish pangs and agonies, that no Music is able to cure them.

6. He that wants Christ, hath no consolation; Christ is called the consolation of Israel, Luk. 2.25. A Christless soul is a comfortless soul; how can such a 〈…〉 have comfort when he comes to dye? he is in debt, and hath no surety; his wounds bleed, and he hath no Physitian; he sees the fire of Gods wrath approaching, and hath no screen to keep it off; he is like a ship in a tempest; sickness begins to make a tempest in his body, and sin to make a tempest in his conscience, and he hath nowhere to ⟨p. 430⟩