The Vanity of the Creature. it in our very houfes. Yea when it is in our mouthes and bowels, bee can fend leaneneffe and a curie after it. rvAke yee Drunkards, and hoivle yee drinkers of wine, faith theProphef, becaufeof the new wine, for it is cast of from your mouthes. The Lord could deferre the punifhtnent of thefe men till the laf+ day, when undoubtedly there will bec nothing for them to drink but that Cup of the Lords right hand, as the Prophet cals it : a Cup of fury and trembling, a cup of forrow, affonilhment, and deíbla- tion ; a Cup which (hall make all that drink thereof to be moved and mad, to be drunken and fall, and fpue, and rife up nomore, even that fierce and bitter indignation, in the powring out of which the Lord (hall put to his right hand, his thong arme,not anely the terror ofhisrepfence, but the glory of his power : I fay the LORD could let drunkards alone till at laft they meet with this Cup, (which undoubtedly they (hall doe , if there bee either truth in Gods Word, or power in his right hand, if there bee either plaice in heaven, or fire in hell) till with Bel fhazzar they meet with dregs and tranbling in thebot- tome of all their Cups : but yet oftentimes the L o R D (mites them with a more fudden blow, .{ hatcheth away. the Cup from their very mouthes ; and fo makes one curie anticipateand prevent another. Though Haman and A- chitophel fh.ould have lived out the whole threed of their life, yet at laf+ their honour muff have laine downe in the duff with them; Though Judas could have lived a thou - fand yeares, and could have improved the reward of his Matters blond to the bet+ advantage that ever Ufurer did, yet the ruff would at laf+ have dazed upon.his bags, and his money mat have perifhed with hiin but now the LORD Pets forward his Curse, and that which the moth would have beene long in doing, the gallowcs dif- patcheth with a more fwift deftrudion. Thus as the bodie of a man may have many fummons- and engage- ments unto one death, may lallour, at-once under many dcfperate 45 Pfal.78.3o, 3 t . Habak.t.r. Ifai.52.i7.zz. Ezek.z3.33 Ier.S. i6.z7. ECay 62.8. Theff.t. 9.
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