Chap. 49 The Sixth Corollary. sin brings to wicked men, the same Portion the Devils have
presence of Christ, he cries out mightily to Christ, if he could, Oh that he would come and help him: and so the woman of Canaan for her daughter, cries after Christ to help her Daughter, for she was miserably vexed with an unclean Spirit.
So you should even go and cry to God, Lord, help if possible, and have mercy upon my Son, upon my Daughter, for they have unclean
Spirits; yea, they are in a worse condition than if possessed by the Devil: I have a Son, a swearing young man; a Daughter, that is vain, and profane, and wicked, and licentious, and stubborn, and unruly,
Oh if it be possible help me. if you could be as sensible of the sins, and wickedness of your
Children, as in the time of the Gospel, Fathers and Mothers were of the possession of their Children, much might then be done.
CHAP. XLIX.
The Sixth Corollary. sin brings to wicked men the same Portion the Devils have.
Sixthly, Hence it follows, if sin has such reference to the Devil, then this must needs follow, That the same Portion that the Devils have, must needs be at last the portion of wicked men: The Scripture expresses it, Mat. 25. Go you wicked into the Portion prepared for the Devil. And so in Timothy, the same portion that the Devil has, shall be the portion of wicked and ungodly men. We read in the Book of the Revelations, of fearful Judgments that shall befall such as have the mark of Antichrist upon them, Revel. 14. 9, 10. An Angel followed, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the Beast, and his Image, and receive his mark in their Foreheads, or in their
Hands, the same shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God poured
out without mixture, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the Presence of God, and his holy Angels, and of the Lamb.
Mark the dreadful Judgments upon such as have the mark of Antichrist, either openly in their Foreheads, in profession, or more privately in their Hands, he shall drink of the wrath of God, &c. Now if such as have but the mark of Antichrist upon them shall have such dreadful punishment; pray what shall those have that have such a likeness unto the Devil himself? the mark of the Devil, that are even turned into the very Nature of the Devil, that are children of the Devil, what shall the end of such wicked and ungodly men and women be?
And now Brethren, we have finished all these Six Particulars, in opening the evil of sin; and therein shewed that there is more evil in sin, that there is in any affliction. And now I had thought to have made some good entrance into the Application of this; for though all this while in the Explanation, I have mingled some Application, yet there remains very many excellent useful Considerations, which does flow from all that has been said of the evil of sin, that if possible it may be brought to your hearts, that all may not vanish and come to nothing in the Conclusion.
Now this one Use I had verily thought to have gone through; I shall only name it, and shew what I intend in it, and I shall finish it in the following Discourse.