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should shake one's heart to think on them and the Lord in mercy look upon you, and make sin as loathsome and bitter to you and ever it hath been sweet and pleasant On spert not with sin. Consider that Dives for a drunken feast here had a dry feast in hell, and could not get one drop of water to cool his tongue. So will it be with you you must either repent and mourn for sir or else burn for ever. What wilt thou do man, when God shall come to tear thee in pieces, and there be none to help when God shall grant the devil leave to take thee into his accused mansions, and there shalt thou lie, weeping and gnashing of thy teeth for ever; thou there shalt lie blaspheming with God's wrath like a pile of fire upon thy soul, burning with floods and seas tears, which thou mayest shed but shall never quench it. Which way soever the lookest, thou shalt see matter and cause everlasting grief. Look up to heaven, a there thou shalt see O! that God is good for ever. Look about thee, and thou shall see devils quaking and cursing God, and thousands, nay millions of sinful damned creatures crying and roaring out with do(illegible text) shrieks! the day that ever I was born' Look within thee, there is a guilty conscience continually gnawing thee; Lo on the time past, ().those golden days