4. For there are no bands in their death. We
usually expect that in death a difference will appear, and the wicked will
become evidently in trouble. The notion is still prevalent that a quiet death
means a happy hereafter. The psalmist had observed that the very reverse is
true. Careless persons become casehardened, and continue presumptuously secure,
even to the last. Some are startled at the approach of judgment, but many more
have received a strong delusion to believe a lie. What with the surgeon’s drugs
and their own infidelity, or false peace, they glide into eternity without a
struggle. We have seen godly men bound with doubts, and fettered with
anxieties, which have arisen from their holy jealousy; but the godless know
nothing of such bands—they care neither for God nor devil. Their strength is firm. Frequently they are brazen and insolent, and can vent defiant
blasphemies. This may occasion sorrow among saints, but certainly should not
suggest envy, for the most terrible inward conflict is infinitely to be
preferred to the profoundest calm which presumption can create.
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