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 received with frowns: The God that made them, has no mercy on them: The Prince of Peace, the Fountain of Felicity, rejects them with abhorrence, he conſigns them over to chains of darkneſs, and receptacles of deſpair, againſt the ſeverer doom, and more public infamy of the great day: Then all the phials of wrath will be emptied upon theſe wretched creatures: The law they have violated, and the goſpel they have ſlighted, the power they have defied, and the goodneſs they have abuſed: will all get themſelves honour in their examplary deſtruction. Then God, the God to whom vengeance belongeth, will draw the arrow to the very head, and ſet them as the mark of his inexhorable diſpleaſure.

Reſurrection, will be no privilege to them, but immortality itſelf their everlaſting curſe--Would they not bleſs the grave, ''that land! where all things are forgotten,'' and wiſh to lie eternally hid in its deepeſt gloom; but the duſt refuſes to conceal their perſons, or draw a vail over their practices. They alſo muſt awake, muſt ariſe; muſt appear at the bar, and meet the Judge, a Judge before whom the pillars of heaven tremble, and the earth melt away; a Judge once long-ſuffering and very compaſſionate, but now unalterably determined, to each ſtubborn offenders what it is, to provoke the Omnipotent Godhead, what it is to trample on the blood of his Son, and offer deſpite to all the gracious overtures of his holy Spirit, to whom be glory, honour, and immortal praiſe, now, and for evermore. Amen.