Wrath, hell, and a word to each

So the Christians of old did. They labored, having opportunity, to do good to all men, warning them to flee from the wrath to come, now, now, to escape the damnation of hell. They declared: The times of ignorance God winked at, but now he calls all men everywhere to repent. They cried aloud: Turn, turn, from your evil ways, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. They reasoned with them of temperance and righteousness, that is, of justice, of the virtues opposite to their reigning sins, and of judgment to come. They reasoned of the wrath of God, which would surely be executed on evildoers in that day when he should judge the world.

They endeavored in this to speak to every man separately, as he had need. To the careless, to those who lay unconcerned in darkness and in the shadow of death, they thundered: Awake, you who sleep. Arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light. But to those who were already awakened out of sleep, and groaning under a sense of the wrath of God, their language was: We have an Advocate with the Father. He is the propitiation for our sins. Meanwhile, those who had believed they provoked to love and to good works, to patient continuance in well-doing, and to abound more and more in that holiness without which no man can see the Lord.