Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

But if our Lord thus resents men's neglecting to help his people under these, and the like distresses; what may they expect, who are the authors and instruments of them? If they shall be fed with wrath, who fed them not, when they were hungry; what shall become of those, who robbed and spoiled them, and took their own bread away from them? What a full cup of wrath shall be the portion of those who were so far from giving them meat or drink, when hungry or thirsty, that they made it a crime for others to entertain them, and made themselves drunken with their blood! they must lodge with devils for ever-more, who took not in the Lord's people, when strangers: then, what a lodging shall those have, who drave them out of their own houses, out of their native land, and mad them strangers? Men will be condemned for not clothing them, when naked: then, how heavy must the sentence of those be, who have stripped them, and made them go without clothing? Surely, if not visiting of them in sickness, or in a prison, shall be so severely punished; they shall not escape a most heavy doom who have cast them into prisons, and have put them under such hardships, as have impaired their health, brought sickness on them, and cut their days in prison, or out of prison.

But if our Lord thus resents men's neglecting to help his people under these, and the like distresses; what may they expect, who are the authors and instruments of them? If they shall be fed with wrath, who fed them not, when they were hungry; what shall become of those, who robbed and spoiled them, and took their own bread away from them? What a full cup of wrath shall be the portion of those who were so far from giving them meat or drink, when hungry or thirsty, that they made it a crime for others to entertain them, and made themselves drunken with their blood! they must lodge with devils for ever-more, who took not in the Lord's people, when strangers: then, what a lodging shall those have, who drave them out of their own houses, out of their native land, and mad them strangers? Men will be condemned for not cloathing them, when naked: then, how heavy must the sentence of those be, who have stript them, and made them go without cloathing? Surely, if not visiting of them in sickness, or in a prison, shall be so severely punished; they shall not escape a most heavy doom who have cast them into prisons, and have put them under such hardships, as have impaired their health, brought sickness on them, and cut their days in prison, or out of prison.