ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it."[1]
What will the reprobate and scoffers at divine mysteries answer? they that have hissed at virtue, derided simplicity, and observed better the laws of the world than of God; they that have stopped their ears at the voice of God; they who have contemned bis divine inspirations; they who have been rebellious against his commandments, and ungrateful for his benetits. What will those libertines say, who letting themselves loose to all vices, have lived as if there were no God at all, or that he did not regard the things that are done below. What will those say, who have followed their commodities, gust, and pleasure for a law, "Quid facietis in die visitaiionis et calamitatis de longe venientis, ad cujus confuegietis auxilium? et ubi derelinquetis gloriam vestram ut non incurvimiiii sub vinculo et cum interjectis cadatis?" What will ye do in the day of visitation and of calamity coming from afar? To whose help will ye flee, and where will ye leave your glory, that ye be not bowed under the bond, and fall with the slain?"
Fifthly, consider, that terrible sentence, which, after judgment, the supreme Judge pronounceth against the wicked; which he will thunder out with such a dreadful noise, that at the sound thereof, the ears of the standers by
- ↑ Isa, v. 3,4
