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<p>Here is, 1. The sinner upon his ramble: He <i>wanders out of the way of understanding</i>, and when once he has left that good way he wanders endlessly. The way of religion is <i>the way of understanding</i>; those that are not truly pious are not truly intelligent; those <i>that wander out of this way</i> break the hedge which God has set, and follow the conduct of the world and the flesh; and they go astray like lost sheep. 2. The sinner at his rest, or rather his ruin: He <i>shall remain</i> (<i>quiescet</i>—<i>he shall rest</i>, but not <i>in pace</i>—<i>in peace</i>) <i>in the congregation of the giants</i>, the sinners of the old world, that were swept away by the deluge; to that destruction the damnation of sinners is compared, as sometimes to the destruction of Sodom, when they are said to have their portion in fire and brimstone. Or <i>in the congregation of the damned</i>, that are under the power of the second death. There is a vast congregation of damned sinners, bound in bundles for the fire, and in that those shall remain, remain for ever, who are shut out from the congregation of the righteous. He that forsakes the way to heaven, if he return not to it, will certainly sink into the depths of hell.</p>
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