40 2 CH A P. 5. d n,8xpofition vpon t be farfi V a 4.3 fare men, when they lead feare before God; their very Pfal 49.16 fecuritie is a token their deflruftion is not farre off, x Be not afraid when filch men are made rich, and when the glory Pfal.4 ;.18o of their houfe is increafed God lets them aloft ? in flsppery places, that he may cad them downe into defolation. Pron. 28. Thirdly,Flie fecurity; he is 6le fed, faith S A L o u o x, th rt f aces alwaies;ifany thing fir thee fate from the fenfe of euill, it is the (care of euill. The effect that Day brings to the wicked, is deflruflion. Touching the Nature of it, may be fome quedion: Come defiring to be Atheifls, & to rid their confcience of all feare ofwrath,that they may fin fecurcly ; fo conceiue it, as if it were an vtter abolifhing oftheir being; making, in that refpeEt, the date of man, all one with the condition of beads. See wee what Religion, and reafon teach, touching death and dedru Uon ofmen. That neither death, nor Iodgement brings with it deilruüion of Nature, and a- bolition of being, Scriptures, and Reafon reach abuta- dandy. Fird, If Gods children had hope in this life vilely, 51 Cord ! rg they were bo f all men moll rvífera6le: is háuing lead tale of the comforts of this life, And if there benot a vengeance laid vp in i{ore for the vngodly after this life, they were of all men the mod happy, that here hue in iodide, come in no misfortune as other men; and at death, ceafe to bee, and fo to bee miferable. Now farre h it, faith A B R A- Cca. rs. x5. » A M, c that the Iudge of all the world fhould not doe right; fo order the date of things, that neither here, nor hereaf- terfhould bee reward for the righteous ;norvengeancefor finners. Secondly, No other, in likelihood, is the de- flruttion of wicked men, than was of euill Angels that kept not their farfi efiate. Their dedruction abolilhed not d Jude v.47. their Nature ; but deífroyed theirioy : tbey are d kept in chaines vnder darknefe vnto the Judgement of the great Day: and with them goe the wicked to erurlatingfire; to torture them, not to confume them.Saith Peter o fSodo- mites, wholededruCtion came from heauen ;They Puffer nnP
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