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CONSIDER that by the abomi∣nation of desolation which Da∣niel foretold, was meant the de∣plorable destruction of Ierusa∣lem, by Titus and Vespasianus: and by that againe the dismale conflagration of the vniuersall world in the last day, when
Christ shall come to iudge the same in great power and maiestie. But by these two againe the day of the accursed eter∣nitie is pointed out, where there shall be weeping, wayling, and gnashing of teeth for euer. The first is past with ex∣treame horrour and disaster to the incre∣dulous Iewe: the seconde shall passe with vtter consternation both to Iewe and gen∣tile: but the third shall proue the abo∣mination and desolation, indeede, among the damned, and shall neuer passe.
[Affection.] Great, my soule, astonishing greate, was the desolation of those accur∣sed Iewes, when they sawe the Temple of God, that wonder of the world, vtter∣ly destroyed: and beheld Ierusalem that lady of all nations buried in her owne rui∣nes: her inhabitants famished and buche∣red: finally, her matrons deuowring the fruite of their owne wombes. Greater yet will it be, when we shall behold, not Ie∣rusalem, alone, but the whole world on fire at the day of Doome, when the powers of heauen shall quake with reuerentiall feare; and men shall wither away with dreade. But greatest of all, when we be∣hold the day of the cursed eternitie, which
shall neuer haue end. I conceiue in myn∣de a thousand yeares. I adde to those a thousand thousand yeares; yea as many thousands and millions as piles of grasse on the earth, or sands in the sea. And yet I haue nothing comparable to eter∣nitie. O Eternitie! Eternitie! Alas! how rarely thou are considered by miserable man.