Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
How groundless is the mirth of unregenerate men!
They feast in their prison and dance in their fetters.
O the madness that is in their hearts! If men did but
realize that they are condemned already, it would be
impossible for them to live in vanity as they do. And is
their condition less dangerous because it is not understood?
Surely not, but much more so! O poor sinners, perhaps you
have found out a way to prevent your present troubles. It
would be infinitely better if you could find out how to
prevent eternal misery! But it is easier for a man to stifle
conviction, than to prevent damnation. Your mirth prevents
repentance and increases your future torment. O what a hell
will theirs be—who drop into it out of all the sinful pleasures
of this world!
"In hell, where he was in torment." Luke 16:23
JOHN FLAVEL
They feast in their prison and dance in their fetters.
O the madness that is in their hearts! If men did but
realize that they are condemned already, it would be
impossible for them to live in vanity as they do. And is
their condition less dangerous because it is not understood?
Surely not, but much more so! O poor sinners, perhaps you
have found out a way to prevent your present troubles. It
would be infinitely better if you could find out how to
prevent eternal misery! But it is easier for a man to stifle
conviction, than to prevent damnation. Your mirth prevents
repentance and increases your future torment. O what a hell
will theirs be—who drop into it out of all the sinful pleasures
of this world!
"In hell, where he was in torment." Luke 16:23
JOHN FLAVEL
