HAPPY Diffolution! were This the Period of their Woes. But, alas! all these Tribulations are only " the Beginning of Sorrows" one fmall Drop of that " Cup of "Trembling," which is mingled for their future Portion. - No fooner has the laft Pang diflodged the reluctant Soul, but they are hurried into the Prefence of an injured angry GOD: Not under the conducting Care of beneficent Angels, but exposed to the Infults of accurfed Spirits; who lately tempted them, now upbraid them, and will for ever torment them. Who can conceive their Confufion and Diftrefs, when they ftand guilty and inexcufable before their incenfed Creator? They are received with Frowns: The GOD that made them, has no Mercy on them. The Prince of Peace, the Fountain of Felicity, hides his Face from them. He configns them over to Chains of Darkness, and Receptacles of Defpair, against the feverer Doom, and more public Infamy, of the Great Day. Then all the Phials of Wrath will be emptied upon thefe wretched Creatures. The Law they have violated, the Power they have defied, the Goodness

they have abused, will all get themselves Honour in their exemplary Destruction. Then GOD, the GOD to whom Vengeance belongeth, will draw the Arrow to the very Head, and make them the Objects of his inexorable Displeasure. Refurrection will be no Privilege to them, but Immortality itself their everlasting Curfe.

Would they not blefs the Grave," that "Land where all Things are forgotten," and wish to lie eternally hid in its deepest Gloom But the Duft refufes to conceal their Persons, or draw a Veil over their Practices. They also must awake, must arise, and appear at the Bar, and meet the Judge: A Judge, before whom "the Pillars of "Heaven tremble, and the Earth melts "away:" A Judge, once long-suffering, and very compaffionate, but now unalterably determined to teach stubborn Offenders, what it is to provoke the Eternal Godhead; what it is to trample upon the Blood of his Son; and offer Despite to all the gracious Overtures of his Spirit.

OH! the Perplexity, the Distraction, that must confound the impenitent Rebels "What can they do in this Day of Visita❝tion!"

"<tion?" Whither fhall they betake themselves?- To fly, will be impoffible; to justify themselves, impracticable; and now, to make any Supplications, unavailable. The jealous Gop, who has been about their Path, and about their Bed, and 'fpied out all their Ways, "fets before them "the Things that they have done." They cannot answer Him, one in a Thousand; nor stand in the awful Judgment. They are speechless with Guilt, and ftigmatized with Infamy, before all the Angels of Light. What a Favour would they cfteem it, to hide their afhamed Heads in the Bottom of the Ocean, or even to be buried beneath the Ruins of the tottering World!

IF the Contempt poured upon them be fo infupportable, O!" How will their "Hearts endure," when the Sword of infinite Indignation is unfheathed, and fiercely waved around their defenceless Heads, or pointed directly at their naked Breafts! How muft the Wretches fcream with wild Amazement, and be at their Wits-end, when

the right-aiming Thunderbolts go abroad," with a Commiffion to drive them from the Kingdoms

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Kingdoms of Glory, and plunge them into a Lake of unquenchable Fire!

MISERY of Miseries! too fhocking for Reflection to dwell upon. But if so dismal to forefee; and that at a Distance; together with fome comfortable Hopes of escapeing it -O! how bitter, how inconceivably bitter, to bear, without any Intermiffion,

or any Mitigation, for Ever and Ever. WHO has any Bowels of Pity?

has any Sentiments of Compaffion?

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has any tender Concern for his Fellow-Creatures? Who? In God's Name, and for CHRIST'S Sake, let Him fhew it, by warning every Man, and befeeching every Man, to feek the LORD while He may be found: "To kifs the Son, before his Anger is "kindled:" Submiffively to adore the Lamb, while he holds out the golden' Sceptre. →→→ Here, let us at the friendly Part to Man kind: Here, let the whole Force of our Be nevolence exert itself; in exhorting whom foever we are likely to influence, to take the Wings of Faith unfeigned, and Repenti ance undelayed, and" flee away from this Wrath to come.”

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UPON the Whole; What ftupendous Dif coveries are thefe! Lay them up in a faithful Remembrance, O my Soul. Recollect them with the most serious Attention, when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up. When thou walkeft, receive them for thy Companions; when thou talkeft, listen to them as thy Prompters; and whatever thou doeft, confult them as thy Directors. In fluenced by thefe Confiderations, thy Views will greaten, thy Affections be exalted, and thou thyself railed above the tantalizing Power of perifhing Things. Duly mindful of thefe, it will be the Sum of thy Defires, and Scope of thy Endeavours, to gain the Approbation of that Sovereign Being, whọ will then fill the Throne, and pronounce the decifive Sentence. Thou wilt fee nothing worth a Wifh, in Comparison of having His Will for thy Rule, His Glory for thy Aim, and His Holy Spirit for thy everactuating Principle.

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WONDER, O Man, be loft in Admiration, at those prodigious Events, which are coming upon the Universe: Events, the Greatness

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