If a little suffering now makes thee so impatient, what will hell fire do hereafter?
Surely thou canst not have thy pleasure in this world, and afterwards reign with Christ.
7. If to this day thou hadst always lived in honours and pleasures: what would it avail thee, if thou wert now in a moment to die?
All then is vanity, but to love God, and to serve him alone!
For he that loves God with his whole heart, neither fears death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell: because perfect love gives secure access to God.
But he that is yet delighted with sin, no wonder if he be afraid of death and judgment.
It is good, however, that if love, as yet, reclaim thee not from evil, at least the fear of hell restrain thee.
But he that lays aside the fear of God, will not be able to continue long in good, but will quickly fall into the snares of the devil.