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Heart IV. Terrnr to Unbelievers. 4rp
It would be a fight of admirable curiofity, if thou
could ft wrap up thyfclf in fome dark cloud, or hide
thyfelf in the cleft of fome high rock, from whence
thou mighteft efpy w icked kings, princes, judges, and
great ones of the earth, rifing out of their marble
tombs, and brought to the bar, to anfwer for all their
cruelty, injuftice, oppreflion and profanity, without
any marks of diftunftion, but what their wickednefs
pu:s upon them: profane,unholy,and unfaithful church¬
men, purfued with the curfes of the ruined people,
from their graves to the judgement-feat, and charged
with the blood of fouls, to whom they gave no faithful
warning : mighty men (landing trembling before the
Judge, unable to recover their wonted boldnefs, to
out-wit him w’th their fubtilities, or defend them-
idves by their ftrength : delicate women caft forth of
tb eir graves, as abominable branches, dragged to the
tribunal, to anfwer for their ungodly lives : the igno¬
rant fuddenly taught in the law, to their coll ; and
tools and la¬
ke
the learned declared, before the world,
borioitS trifiets; the atheift convinced, the hypociite
unmafked •, ami the profane, at long run, turned feri-
ous about his eternal date : fecret murders, adulteries,
thefts, cheats, and other works of darknefs, which
fcorned art human fearch, difeovered and laid open
before the world, with their moft minute circumftan-
ces : no regard had to the rich, no pity (hewn to the
poor: the feales of the world turned; oppreiT.'d and
defpifed piety fet on high ; and profperous wickednefs
at iaft brought low : all, not found in Chnft, arraigned,
convicted, and condemned without refpeft of per ferns.
and driven from the tribunal to the pit; while tkefe
found in him, at that day, being abfolved before the
world, go with him into heaven. Nav, but thou eanll
not fo efcape. fhyfeif, whofoever thou art, not being
in Chrift, muft bear a jvart in this tragical and fright¬
ful atftion.
Sinner, that fame Lord Chrift, v horn thou now
defpifeft, whom thou wounded through the Tides of
his mtlfengers, and before whom thou doft prefer thy
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