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(illegible text)e ſpeechleſs with guilt, and ſtigmatized ⟨with⟩ infamy before all the armies of the ſky ⟨and⟩ all the nations of the redeemed.—
How muſt the wretches ſcream with wild ⟨amazement⟩, and rend the very heavens with ⟨their⟩ cries, when the right-aiming thunder ⟨bolts⟩ go abroad! abroad with a dreadful ⟨admiſſion⟩, to drive them from the kingdom ⟨of⟩ glory; and plunge them,——not into the (illegible text)rrows of a moment, or the tortures of an ⟨hour⟩,—but into all the reſtleſs agonies of ⟨unquenchable⟩ fire, and everlaſting deſpair.
Miſery of miſeries! too ſhocking for ⟨reflection⟩ to dwell upon. But, if ſo diſmal to (illegible text)reſee, and that at a diſtance, together with ⟨some⟩ comfortable expectation of eſcaping it.—O! how bitter, inconceivably bitter, to ⟨hear⟩, without any intermiſſion, or any ⟨mitigation⟩, through hopeleſs and eternal ages.
Wonder, O man; be loſt in admiration, ⟨of⟩ thoſe prodigious events which are coming ⟨upon⟩ the univerſe: events, the greatneſs of ⟨which⟩ nothing finite can meaſure; ſuch as ⟨will⟩ cauſe whatever is conſiderable or ⟨momentous⟩ in the annals of all generations, to ⟨sink⟩ into littleneſs and nothing. Events ⟨of⟩ Jesus, prepare us for their approach! ⟨demand⟩ us, when they take place!) big with the ⟨overlaſting⟩ fates of all the living, and all the ⟨dead⟩.—I muſt ſee the graves cleaving, the (illegible text)a teeming, and ſwarms unſuſpected, crowds ⟨unnumbered⟩, yea multitudes of thronging (illegible text)ations, riſing from both.——I muſt ſee the
