Page:Dissertation on the first day of the week, and the last of the world; or, A beautiful descant on the Day of Judgment (sic).pdf/7

 the plendid mauoleums, and the triumphal arches of the great, the large and populace cities, which for trade and commerce had monopoliz'd the riches of the world, and whoe tately and magnificent curioities, had perhaps for ages unknown, been the wonder and admiration of the curious traveller, mut then exchange their tranitory greatnes, to fall a victim in the burning world. In that day, hall the glorious Maker of heaven and earth, arret the rapid motion of our rolling phere, and top the career of the glorious un in the firmament, that plendid luminary that glads all nature with his cheering rays; the ilver moon, that lucid orb, that upplies the abence of the ditant un, and gilds the horrors of the raven-colour'd night, hall no more move round her axis, no more oberve her periodical revolutions, her blunted changes nor her blazing fulls; the planets topt in their rounds, and the twinkling tars commanded to move no more, by that God who made them, launch'd them from his arm, and hung them in the air; all hall ceae and the glory of the world hall be no more, and the archangel hall proclaim in a voice as rolls the thunder loud, that hall reach to the ends of the earth and ea, and reverberate the ound through the lofty arch of heaven, That time hall be no more. O! that divine contemplation in all her rich attire, would take full poeion of the heart of every mortal while here in this world, and intil in their minds the continual thoughts of a future tate; the heaven they have to enjoy, and the hell they have to ecape. O! what man, upon a erious reflection on thee two oppoites, would not be enraptur'd with the endles joys of the one, while the dreadful thoughts of the everlating torments of the other congeals the very blood in the veins; but O! what pen can decribe, or imagination paint the trancendant happines, that forever