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and passions, and animosities may fire them ; our 

 drunkenness, and deep excesses may drown them ; 

 our vollies of oaths and blasphemies may pierce 

 them ; nay, our seditious murmurings, and privy 

 whisperings may blow them over. For God is 

 Pionan i^upes, reorum scopidus ; a rock to found 

 the just upon, but a shelf to shipwreck, and con- 

 found the unrighteous. 



And yet all these are but the common roads 

 and ordinary instances of God's displeasures : but 

 he hath also, besides, and beyond all these, un- 

 known treasures of wrath, vast stores of hidden 

 judgments (for * who knows the power, or the 

 extent of his anger?) laid up in those secret ma- 

 gazines where his judgments are, when they are 

 not in the earth, reserved as his dreadful artil- 

 lery against the time of trouble, against the day of 

 battle and war, as he speaks himself. Job, xxxviii. 

 23. Oh let us take heed of t treasuring up to our- 

 selves wrath against that day of wrath, and the 

 revelation of his righteous judgments. 



And now what shall I say more, if all that hath 

 been said hitherto, prove ineffectual ? The text 

 affords yet one expedient, as the Chaldee Para- 

 phrast may seem to have understood it : Because 

 thy Judgment, saith he, (not, ZOSl^D as in the He- 

 brew, but ^y^'^ or ^^^"^ ^y^"^ as the Jews call it, and 

 St. Jude from them, J The Judgment of the great 

 Day,) because that judgment, though not as yet in 



* Psm. xc. 2. t Rom. i. 5. X Jude 6. 



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