Secondly, Hasten, O sinners, out of your wickedness, out of your sinful state, and out of your wicked life: if ye would not at death be driven away in your wickedness. Remember the fatal end of the wicked man, as the text represents it. I know there is a great difference in the death of the wicked, in respect of some circumstances: but all of them, in their death, agree in this, that they are driven away in their wickedness. Some of them die resolutely, as if they ⟨p. 235⟩scorned to be afraid. Some in raging despair, so filled with horror, that they cry out, as if they were already in hell: others in sullen despondency, oppressed with fears, insomuch, that their hearts are sunk within him, upon the remembrance of mis-spent time, and the view they have of eternity; having neither head nor heart to do any thing for their own relief. And others die stupid: they lived like beasts, and they die like beasts, without any concern on their spirits about their eternal state. They groan under their bodily distress, but have no sense of the danger of their souls. One may with almost as much prospect of success speak to a stone, as to speak to them: vain is the attempt to teach them, nothing that can be said moves them. To discourse to them, either of the joys of heaven, or the torments of hell, is to plough on a rock, or beat the air. Some die like the foolish virgins, dreaming of heaven: their foreheads are steeled against the fears of hell, with presumptuous hopes of heaven. Their business, who would be useful to them, is not to answer doubts about the case of their souls; but to dispute them out of their false hopes. But which way soever the unconverted man dies, he is driven away in his wickedness. O dreadful case! Oh, let the consideration of so horrible a departure out of this world, move you to betake yourselves to Jesus Christ, as an all-sufficient Saviour, an Almighty Redeemer. Let it prevail to drive you out of your wickedness, to holiness of heart and life. Though you reckon it pleasant to live in wickedness; you cannot but own it is better to die in it. And if you leave it not in time, you shall go in your wickedness to hell, the proper place of it, that it may be set there in its own base. For when you are passing out of this world, all your sins from the eldest to the youngest of them, will swarm about you, hang upon you, accompany you to the other world;
Secondly, Hasten, O sinners, out of your wickedness, out of your sinful state, and out of your wicked life: if ye would not at death be driven away in your wickedness. Remember the fatal end of the wicked man, as the text represents it. I know there is a great difference in the death of the wicked, in respect of some circumstances: but all of them, in their death, agree in this, that they are driven away in their wickedness. Some of them die resolutely, as if they ⟨p. 235⟩scorned to be afraid. Some in raging despair, so filled with horror, that they cry out, as if they were already in hell: others in sullen despondency, opprest with fears, insomuch, that their hearts are sunk within him, upon the remembrance of mis-spent time, and the view they have of eternity; having neither head nor heart to do any thing for their own relief. And others die stupid: they lived like beasts, and they die like beasts, without any concern on their spirits about their eternal state. They groan under their bodily distress, but have no sense of the danger of their souls. One may with almost as much prospect of success speak to a stone, as to speak to them: vain is the attempt to teach them, nothing that can be said moves them. To discourse to them, either of the joys of heaven, or the torments of hell, is to plow on a rock, or beat the air. Some die like the foolish virgins, dreaming of heaven: their foreheads are steeled against the fears of hell, with presumptuous hopes of heaven. Their business, who would be useful to them, is not to answer doubts about the case of their souls; but to dispute them out of their false hopes. But which way soever the unconverted man dies, he is driv•n away in his wickedness. O dreadful case! Oh, let the consideration of so horrible a departure out of this world, move you to betake yourselves to Jesus Christ, as an all-sufficient Saviour, an Almighty Redeemer. Let it prevail to drive you out of your wickedness, to holiness of heart and life. Though you reckon it pleasant to live in wickedness; you cannot but own it is better to die in it. And if you leave it not in time, you shall go in your wickedness to hell, the proper place of it, that it may be set there in its own base. For when you are passing out of this world, all your sins from the eldest to the youngest of them, will swarm about you, hang upon you, accompany you to the other world;
