"And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years." He
lived, therefore, to see Abraham fifty-and-eight years old; he lived
also to see the foundation of Babel laid, nay, the top-stone
thereof; and also the confusion of tongues; he lived to see of the
fruit of his loins, mighty kings and princes. But in all this time
he lived not to do one, work that the Holy Ghost thought worthy to
record, for the savor of his name or the edification and benefit of
his church, save only, that he died at "nine hundred and fifty
years:" so great a breach did this drunkenness make upon his spirit.

SINNERS.

Usually in wicked families, some one or two are more arch for
wickedness than are any other that are there. Now such are Satan's
conduit-pipes; for by them he conveys of the spawn of hell, through
their being crafty in wickedness, into the ears and souls of their
companions.

"And she bare Cain:" the first sprout of a disobedient couple, a man
in shape, but a devil in disposition.

The sinner, when his conscience is fallen asleep and grown hard,
will lie like the smith's dog at the foot of the anvil, though the
fire-sparks fly in his face.

Peace in a sinful course is one of the greatest of curses.

There is a wicked man that goes blinded, and a wicked man that goes
with his eyes open, to hell; there is a wicked man that cannot see,
and a wicked man that will not see, the danger he is in; but