Who?  It  is  that  voluptuary,  who  opposes
to  all  our  exhortations  and  threatenings,  to
the  most  affecting  denunciations  of  calamities
from  God  in  this  life,  and  to  the  most  awful
descriptions  of  judgment  to  come  in  the  next,
to  all  our  representations  of  hell,  of  an  eter
nity  spent  in  the  most  execrable  company,
and  in  the  most  excruciating  pain;  who  opposes
to  all  these  the  buz  of  amusements,  the  hurry
of  company,  gaming  at  home,  or  diversions
abroad.
Study  all  these  characters,  my  brethren,
lay  aside  the  specious  appearances  that  men
use  to  conceal  their  turpitude  from  themselves,
and  ye  will  find  that,  to  dare  the  Deity,  to  pre
tend  by  superior  knowledge  and  strength  to
resist  the  wisdom  and  omnipotence  of  God,  is
not  so  rare  a  disposition  as  ye  may  at  first
have  supposed.
