The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon

And how have you behaved yourself in the time of family prayer! And what a trade have many of you made of absenting yourselves from the worship of the families you belong to, for the sake of vain company! And how have you continued in the neglect of secret prayer! therein wilfully living in a known sin, going abreast against as plain a command as any in the Bible! Have you not been one that has cast off fear, and restrained prayer before God?

What wicked carriage have some of you been guilty of towards your parents! How far have you been from paying that honour to them that God has required! Have you not even harboured ill will and malice towards them? And when they have displeased you, have wished evil to them? Yea, and shown your vile spirit in your behaviour? And it is well if you have not mocked them behind their backs; and, like the accursed Ham and Canaan, derided your parents nakedness instead of covering it, and hiding your eyes from it. Have not some of you often disobeyed your parents, yea, and refused to be subject to them? Is it not a wonder of mercy and forbearance, that that has not before now been accomplished on you, in Prov. xxx.17. "The eye that mocketh at his father, and refuseth to obey his mother, the ravens of ⟨p. 26⟩the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."

What revenge and malice have you been guilty of towards your neighbours? How have you indulged this spirit of the devil, hating others, and wishing evil to them, rejoicing when evil befell them, and grieving at others prosperity, and lived in such a way for a long time! Have not some of you allowed a passionate furious spirit, and behaved yourselves in your anger more like wild beasts than like Christians!