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4 and declared unto us. And there is likewise set down therein, how every one of us ought to live and demean himself in this present world, with several fearful examples of God’s heavy judgements against wicked and notorious sinners in drowning the old world for their sins and wickedness; as you may see Gen. vi. So likewise in destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, by fire from heaven, Gen. xix. 24, 25. And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrrah fire and brimstone, and overthrew those cities, and all their inhabitants; with several other fearful examples of God’s heavy wrath and indignation against sin and sinners, in general and in particular. All which, as St. Jude saith in his epistle, are set forth for our examples, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, Not for our examples, that we should do as they did, but that we should be afraid to do as they did, to commit such sins, lest the Lord lay upon us such, or heavier weights of wrath and vengeance.

So likewise, in the book of the scripture, is set forth the blessed and happy state and condition of all the godly, both in this life, and the life to come, as you may see, Psalms i. xv. xci. The godly man shall be delivered from the snare of the fowler, and from the noise of the pestilence, and because he hath made the Lord his refuge, there shall no evil