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 e ſpeechleſs with guilt, and ſtigmatized infamy before all the armies of the ſky  all the nations of the redeemed.—

How muſt the wretches ſcream with wild, and rend the very heavens with cries, when the right-aiming thunder  go abroad! abroad with a dreadful, to drive them from the kingdom glory; and plunge them,——not into the rrows of a moment, or the tortures of an ,—but into all the reſtleſs agonies of  fire, and everlaſting deſpair.

Miſery of miſeries! too ſhocking for to dwell upon. But, if ſo diſmal to reſee, and that at a diſtance, together with comfortable expectation of eſcaping it.—O! how bitter, inconceivably bitter, to, without any intermiſſion, or any , through hopeleſs and eternal ages.

Wonder, O man; be loſt in admiration, thoſe prodigious events which are coming  the univerſe: events, the greatneſs of  nothing finite can meaſure; ſuch as  cauſe whatever is conſiderable or  in the annals of all generations, to  into littleneſs and nothing. Events, prepare us for their approach! us, when they take place!) big with the fates of all the living, and all the .—I muſt ſee the graves cleaving, the a teeming, and ſwarms unſuſpected, crowds, yea multitudes of thronging ations, riſing from both.——I muſt ſee the