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Rh and declared unto us. And there is like-wiſe 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 like-wiſe in deſtroying Sodom and Gomorrah, by fire from heaven, Gen, xix 24, 25. ‘And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah 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 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, left the Lord lay upon as 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 liſe, and the life to come, as you may ſee, Pſ.i.xv, xci, ‘The godly man ſhall be delivered