Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered.…

But then, Secondly; My Brethren, while you have a Darkness, on your Minds, whether you are in Good Terms with Heaven, or no. How can you Die? Nay How can you Live? which way can you keep off Anguish from your Minds, which if a Spirit of Slumber had not Poisoned you, would be indeed, Intolerable? One that seems at a Loss, whether GOD would be Favourable to him, or not cast him off forever, cried out, Psal. LXXVII. 24. My Soul refuses to be comforted; Thou holdest mine Eyes waking: I am so Troubled that I cannot Speak. Indeed, If you could say, I know that my Redeemer Lives, and I know that He is indeed mine, & has Loved me, and has died for me; How comfortably might you Pass the Time of your Sojourning here in the Fear of GOD, but without the least Fear of any Evil! Yea, Look where you will, all objects would conspire to Speak unto you, as the Lord unto the Angel in the Vision, ⟨p. 19⟩with good words, & with comfortable words. The Great GOD says to you, I am thy GOD; Thy Father, and thy Saviour, & thy Leader; & I will bring thee to Inherit all things. The Angels in the Multitude of the Heavenly Host, say to you, We are thy Guardian All Creatures offer themselves unto you saying, We are thy Servants. The most Afflictive Things that befall you, say unto you, GOD hath Meant us and Sent us for thy Good. But how can you bear to Walk in such a Darkness, as This; That for ought you Know, you are among the Abhorred of the Lord; among the Enslaved of the Devil; and some of those who are going down to that Burning Lake, from whence the Smoke of their Torment ascends for Ever & Ever? Methinks, you should have a Soul refusing to be comforted with any thing here. Methinks, your Eyes may be held Waking, with the Flames that are before them. This you do Know, That it is Appointed for men once to Dy. Death has a commission to Seize upon you; and Every day that passes, you don't Know, but that This Day he may bring the Bowstring, & the Sentence may be Executed. But at the same time, there is another Thing which you do not know: Whether your Death will not be a Trap-door, that must let you down to Hell, and so you sink down into the Horrible Pit: This is what you do not Know. If you should ⟨p. 20⟩This Day have the Summons of Death served upon you, would not the Groans as of a deadly Wounded Man be heard from you? Oh! I know not what will become of me! I know not what world I am going to!