So then, whether Mr. Badmans friends shall rage or laugh at what I
have writ, I know that the better end of the staffe is mine. My
endeavour is to stop an hellish Course of Life, and to save a soul
from death, (Jam. 5.) and if for so doing, I meet with envy from
them, from whom in reason I should have thanks, I must remember the
man in the dream, that cut his way through his armed enemies, and
so got into the beauteous Palace; I must, I say, remember him, and
do my self likewise.

Yet four things I will propound to the consideration of Mr. Badmans
friends, before I turn my back upon them.

1. Suppose that there be an Hell in very deed, not that I do
question it, any more than I do whether there be a Sun to shine;
but I suppose it for argument sake, with Mr. Badmans friends; I
say, suppose there be an Hell, and that too, such an one as the
Scripture speaks of, one at the remotest distance from God and Life
eternall, one where the Worm of a guilty Conscience never dyes, and
where the fire of the Wrath of God is not quenched.

Suppose, I say, that there is such an Hell, prepared of God (as
there is indeed) for the body and soul of the ungodly World after
this life, to be tormented in: I say, do but with thy self suppose
it, and then tell me, Is it not prepared for thee, thou being a
wicked man? Let thy conscience speak, I say, is it not prepared
for thee, thou being an ungodly man? And dost thou think, wast
thou there now, that thou art able to wrestle with the Judgment of
God? Why then do the fallen Angers tremble there? thy hands cannot
be strong, nor can thy heart endure, in that day when God shall
deal with thee: Ezek. 22. 14.