Angels sounding the Trumpets of Heaven, to call the Dead from the darkest Corners of the Ground and Ocean; to collect the scattered Ashes of Martyrs burnt at Stakes, and also of Malefactors forced ignominiously out of Life.

THIRDLY, From the Acknowledgment of Job, That after his Death Worms would destroy his Body, We considered the natural Vanity of Bodily Perfections, which are like the Flower of the Field, the Apostle, saith, spreading its Beauties very gaily in the Morning, and boasting the Endowments of Heaven as its own, but in the Evening, languishing, and falling in Dust and Putrefaction. From which Considerations, The Malefactors were directed, not to repine at having their Bodies cut away from Life, which are naturally so frail, and of so short Continuance. Also, to imploy their whole time in decking and adorning the Soul in the Robes of Righteousness, since that, no Times can impair, no Worms will ever corrode.

FOURTHLY, From the assured Expection of Job, That tho' his Body must first go down to the silent Glooms of Death, yet at the latter Day, he in his Body and Flesh should see God, we observed to the Prisoners to suffer Death, (1.) That tho' the Bodies of Sinners are suppos'd to rest till the Resurrection, and tho' the Punishment of the wicked may not be compleat so long as the visible World remain'd; yet the very Moment that the Soul is torn from the Body, by violence of Pain, entering into a new Region on a strange Shore, it is conscious and sensible of its Estate and future Condition, and has exquisite Happiness or exquisite Woe, tho' not compleat and entire, till after the Reunion of the Soul and Body, and the Sentence pronounc'd upon them together. (2.) That the manner of a Persons Death or Place where he suffer'd Death, is nothing in the sight of God; but the same Mercy that relieved a Thief in our Saviours Presence, can save a Malefactor now; and same the Power that gathers together the Ashes of a proud Pharoah or a good Cranmer, can unite the Ashes of a poor Beggar, or an ignominious Sufferer; since all in our Flesh must see God, and be in the Company of Cherubim, Seraphim, Angels and Archangels, and when Christ appears in the Clouds with the Volumes of Good and Evil dispread before him. (3.) We endeavour'd therefore to convince them of the vast Necessity there was of cleansing and purifying themselves from Sins, in order to receive the Smiles of him who is of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity; that tho' they had Shame here, they might not there have Confusion of Face; tho' they lay here in the lowest Darkness, they might not be banished in everlasting Darkness; when thro' the Merits and Sufferings of their Saviour, it was in their Power to pass, from Fetters and Captivity, into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God.