on the face of the earth. What think you of the first man, by whose
sins there are millions now in hell? And so I may say, What think
you of ten thousand more besides?

But if the world will not stifle and gag them up (I speak now for
amplification's sake), the view of those who are saved shall.

There comes an incestuous person to the bar, and pleads, That the
bigness of his sins was a bar to his receiving the promise. But will
not his mouth be stopped as to that, when Lot and the incestuous
Corinthian shall be set before him; Gen. xix. 33-37; 1 Cor. v. 1, 2.

There comes a thief, and says, Lord, my sin of theft, I thought, was
such as could not be pardoned by thee! But when he shall see the
thief that was saved on the cross stand by, as clothed with beauteous
glory, what further can he be able to object? Yea, the Lord will
produce ten thousand of his saints at his coming, who shall after
this manner execute judgment upon all, and so convince all that are
ungodly among them, of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him. And these are hard speeches against him, to
say that he was not able or willing to save men, because of the
greatness of their sins, or to say that they were discouraged by his
word from repentance, because of the heinousness of their offences.

These things, I say, shall then be confuted: he comes with ten
thousand of his saints to confute them, and to stop their mouths from
making objections against their own eternal damnation.

Here is Adam, the destroyer of the world; here is Lot, that lay with
both his daughters; here is Abraham, that was sometime an idolater,