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nothing but leaves, ‘Cut them down,’ says Christ, ‘and case them the into the fire.’ To perish in a prison or on a dunghill, is nothing; to die for want of food is nothing: Lazarus did so, whilst Dives, with his delicious fare, died on his bed of downs, and was cast into hell. You that lie on beds of ivory, and have your hangings of needle-work, if you get not Christ and a good conscience, hell shall be your fate, and devils your companions, to torment you for ever. ‘And who shall be able to stand in the day of God’s wrath? And who can dwell with everlasting burnings?’

Companions in sin, shall be companions in hell, and those that can sport and play one with another, shall in hell drag and torment one another, and curse the day that ever they saw one another, and cry out to one another, O what miserable wretches were we! to lose the heaven of heavens for a little vain delight, the love and favour of God, for the love and favour of wicked companions, in whose presence we were more delighted, than in the everlasting love of God, whose pleasures are pleasures for evermore. What profiteth it now, that we have had our wine, and our music, our fill and our full of earthly delights? O wretched creatures that we are! Who shall deliver us