.::86 The Wicked dying, d~iven a~aj State IV. them in the dufi, Job xx. 11. Their works follow them~ iuto the other wofid : . they go· away with the yoke of their "" tranfgreffions wreathed about their necks. Guilt is- a bad' companion in life, but how tcrrible witl it be in death ! it · lies now, perhaps like cold brimllone' on their benumb'q' confciences; but, when death open:; the way for fparks of r divine vengeance, li~{e fire-, · tO' faJl upon it; it will make – dr-eadful flames in the confci'ence, in which the foul will be· as it were-wtapt up for ever. Lajlly; The wicked aredri• · ven away in their wickednefs, in fo faT as they die under the abfolute power of their wi·ckednefs While there is hope;· there is forne rcfiraint on the wodl of men : and thefe mo.: ral _endo1Vments, which Godgives to a n~mbet of men, for the benefit of mankind in thi:. life, are fo many allays and' refir~ints upon the impetuous wickednefs of human na.ture.· But all hope beiog cut df, and thefe gifts withdrawn; the · wickednefs of the wicked will then arrive at its perfeelion. As the feeds of grace· fown in the hearts of the eleCt, come' to their full maturity at d>eath = fo wicked and hell illi difpofitions in the reprobate come then to their highell pitch.· Their prayers to God wilf then be turned tO horrible curfes'; and their prayers to hideous blafphemies, .Malt h. xxii .. 1 3·. There jhall b~ weeping and gnafhing of teeriJ, · This g'ives adifipal but genuine view of the Hate of-the wicked in ano• ther world'. . · 11.1 !hall difcover the hope1eifnefs of the ~ate of unre.!. tlewed men; at death'. It appears to be very hopelefs, · if .we confider thefe"four tl<lings. · 1jl, Death cuts cff all their hopes and profpects of peace and plea[ure in th.is life .• L~ke xii. '9· Soul, rhou hajfmu'C!i goods laid up for man)';-.t·ar.r, take_ thine ea.fe, eat, .drink, and , /Je merry. Ver . ;:o . .JJut God.fald unto him, Thou fool, tbi.J nig! t, thy .foul jhali be required or th(e: then rwhoje jhal! thofc things be, rwhich thou haft provided? They lo.ok fo-r. grer.t matters in this wor!,d; they hope to increafe tht:ir wealth to fee their families profper, and to live at eafe: but dea h comes Lke a Hormy wind , <\nd fh akes off all their for ·d hopes, ltke green fruit ft o.m off a tree. 11/~en he i1 a· ./;out 1~ fill his belly, God /hail ·cafl thefufy ef hiJ 'IJJrath up– In hhn, Job XX . 2 3~· He nn y begin a Web of contrivances, J·cr advi\ncing his woydly inteH~Ll ;. but before ·he ·gets it · 1 w·rough'f
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