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the earth, is yet fixed, and appointed, and prepared 

 for all the earth (V"!^^ in the Hebrew itself, too, 

 for rather than in the earth), therefore most cer- 

 tainly, if at all, or for any thing, the inhabitants 

 of the world will learn righteousness. 



But, if they put far from them this evil day too, 

 as if they had made a covenant with death and 

 with hell; if they finally refuse to come under 

 God's discipline, and to take forth to themselves 

 lessons of righteousness here, they shall then be 

 made themselves great lessons and dreadful ex- 

 amples of God's righteousness to all the world^ 

 If they will not glorify God in these fires, as they 

 ought, nor walk in the light of them ; let them 

 remember that there are fires without light, where 

 none glorify him, but by suffering the eternal 

 vengeance of their sins. There must they learn 

 by saddest experience, who obstinately refuse the 

 more gainful method, oVt (po'^i^lv l(X7ri<Ts7v, that it is 

 a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living 

 God. For our enemies here must die, and our 

 storms at last blow over, and our fires, you see, 

 though never so great, in time go out and vanish: 

 but God lives ; hath a worm, too, that dies not (for 

 those that live not as they ought) and a fire that 

 is not quenched : the Babylonian furnace, seven 

 times hotter than usual, a cool walk to that ; all 

 our Vulcans and ^tnas, our Heclas and Andes 

 faint types and shadows of it; the great confla- 

 gration we so lately trembled at, and still bewail, 

 but a spark to that infernal Tophet, but a painted 



