Here is, 1. The sinner upon his ramble: He wanders out of the way of
understanding, and when once he has left that good way he wanders
endlessly. The way of religion is the way of understanding; those that
are not truly pious are not truly intelligent; those that wander out of
this way 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 shall remain (quiescet--he
shall rest, but not in pace--in peace) in the congregation of the
giants, 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 in the congregation of the damned,
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.