Of the Dissolution

Improvisa graviitsferiunt. How wilt thou bestrucken as it were with a Thunderbolt,when the Almighty Judge shall fulminateagainst thee a dreadful indeed, but by theeformerly undreaded Sentence, adjudgingthee to endless Punishments ? How wilt thoudamn thine own Credulity, who by agroundless Belief of a temporary Hell, hastprecipitated thy self into an eternal, whichotherwise thou mightest possibly have a-voided ?

Well,, but suppose there be some shadowof hope of the determination of the Punish-ments of the Damned : It is by all acknow-ledged to be a great piece of folly to leaveMatters of the highest moment, and whichmost nearly concern us, at uncertainties :and a point of Wisdom, to secure the MainChance, and to be provided against the worstthat can come. An eternal Heaven or Stateof com pleat Happiness is the Main Chance,and is not to come into any competition, orso much as to be put into the ballance a-gainst a few short, tran/ient, sordid, loathed,and for the most part upon their own ac-count repented PleasuresTo secure to ourselves an Interest in such a State is ourgreatest Wisdom. And as for being providedagainst the worst that may or can come.

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