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 Enmity and Averſion in the other World, where the one may ſay, had you not admitted me into your Houſe, and ſupplied me with Wine and other things, which were not Matter of Neceffity, but mere Vanity and Impiety, I might have kept the Lord's Day better, and eſcaped this Place of Torment. And on the other hand, the other Party may reply, had you not frequented my Houſe on the Lord's Day, and prevented me and my Servants from ſerving God in his Houſe and my own, we might likewiſe have been more happy.

That ſuch Expoſtulations and Upbraidings will be like to be in the other world, (where every one will fee the baſeneſs and perniciouſneſs of finning againſt God) is very probable from what we ſee in Perſons whoſe Eyes God pleaſes to open here on Earth.

I knew a Gentleman, who after a ſharp Sickneſs, betaking himſelf to a new life, ſent for the Maſter of the Tavern where he had miſpent much time and many Lord's Days, and with ſuch a Countenance as made him even tremble; check'd him ſeverely for allowing Company, to ſit drinking on the Lord's Day, or upon any other Day, to exceſs; and gave him ſuch an effecting Charge to amend this for the future, as ſtartled him whenever he call'd it to mind; as the Perſon to whom he ſpake, afterwards confeſt.