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

I know not whether I am going up to the Rest which remains for the People of GOD, or going down into the Devouring Fire, & the Everlasting Burnings! And how can you bear to Live in Circumstances, that are so full to Dangers and perils infinitely to be trembled at? O Unhappy Condition! That Man thought himself in an Unhappy Condition who sat at a full Table, but had a Sword with the point thereof directed unto him, hanging by a slender Thread over his Head, the breaking whereof, and his Dying by it every moment was to be looked for. Soul in Darkness, Every Time of thy sitting down at the Table, thou mayst have this Terror upon thee, For ought I know, while my meat is in my mouth, the Wrath of GOD may come upon me, and hurry me away to Endless gnashing of Teeth. Wherever thou art, & whatever thou dost, a Destruction from GOD impending over thee, may be a Terror unto thee. Every Morning thy Terror may be, For ought I know, Hell may open its mouth for me before the Evening. Every Evening thy Terror may be, For ought I know, I must have my Bed in Hell before the Morning. Every time one in this Darkness mounts an ⟨p. 21⟩Horse, he may be terrified with such a Reflection as This; For ought I know, This Beast may throw me down into the place of Dragons! O Unhappy Condition! One would not wonder, at it, if a person in such Darkness, were a, Magor Missabib a Terror unto himself, & unto all about him Tis a wonder that such an one can Enjoy himself, in any thing, and that his continual Terror, of what his Death may bring him to, do not Spoil & Pall every Comfort of his Life: that he can have any Comfort of his Life! They who Die in their Sins, must go into a very Unhappy Condition. To be Banished from the Blessedness of the Holy City, and feel an Almighty GOD, as a Consuming Fire, torturing the Soul with Immediate and Everlasting Impressions from His Vengeance upon it; This cannot but be a very Unhappy Condition. And surely then, they who do not know any other; but that they are yet in their Sins, & shall Die in them; These are therefore and so far in a very Unhappy Condition too To be in such a Darkness, that O man, Thou knowest not whether thou art not one of those, for whom is Reserved Blackness of Darkness forever! If this be not an Unhappy Condition, what can be so?

I know not whether I am going up to the Rest which remains for the People of GOD, or going down into the Devouring Fire, & the Everlasting Burnings! And how can you bear to Live in Circumstances, that are so full to Dangers and perils infinitely to be trembled at? O Ʋnhappy Condition! That Man thought himself in an Ʋnhappy Condition who sat at a full Table, but had a Sword with the point thereof directed unto him, hanging by a slender Thread over his Head, the breaking whereof, and his Dying by it every moment was to be looked for. Soul in Darkness, Every Time of thy sitting down at the Table, thou mayst have this Terror upon thee, For ought I know, while my meat is in my mouth, the Wrath of GOD may come upon me, and hurry me away to Endless gnashing of Teeth. Wherever thou art, & whatever thou dost, a Destruction from GOD impending over thee, may be a Terror unto thee. Every Morning thy Terror may be, For ought I know, Hell may open its mouth for me before the Evening. Every Evening thy Terror may be, For ought I know, I must have my Bed in Hell before the Morning. Every time one in this Darkness mounts an