ertes {1itb the Lord God, Behoid, I, ey;en I, am againfi thee. I. His face u againft thee : Pial. 34· I 6. The f(lce of the Lord is againft tbem that do evil, to cut off the re– membrance of them. Woe unto them whom God jhall fet his faceagainft. 'Vhen he did but lookupon the hoft of the Egyptians, how terrible was the confe– quence? Ezek.· r 4 8. ' I will fet my face againfi: that ' n1an, and will make hima fign, and proverb, and ' \\·ill cut hin1 off from the midft of my people, 'and you iball know that I am the Lord: 2. His · ' heart is againft thee : He hateth all the workers of ' iniquity. ~{an, Doth not thine heart tremble to ' think of thy being an object of God's hatred? 'fer. ' r). r. Though L'Y!ofes and Samuel flood before me, ' yet my rnind· could not be towards this people: ' Cafi: them out of my fight, Zecb. 7· 8. Ivly foul 'loathed thetn, and their iouls alfo abhorred me. ' 3. His hand is again.fl: thee, r sam. 12. 1 4> 1 5. All ' his attributes are againft thee. . · ' Firft, His Jufl:ice is like a flaming fword un– ' fheathed againil thee. If I whet rrty glittering _ ' fworo, and my hand take hold on judgn1ent, I ' will render vengeance to mine adveriaries, anq · ' will reward them that hateme. I will make mine '2n·ows drunk with blood, &c. ·Deut. 3:2~ 40, 4r. So exaCt is Jufiice, that it wilt by nomeans clear the guilty, Exoi. 34· 7. God will not difcbarge thee, he will not hold thee guiltlefs, Exod. _2o. 7. but will require the whole debt in perfon of thee, unlels thou canfi make a Scripture- clain1 to Chrifr, and his fatisfaction. 'Vhen the enlightned finner looks on jufiice, and fees the ba11ance .in ·vvhid1 he muft be weighed, and the fword by which he n1uft be executed, he ~els an earthquake in his b.reafl: But Satan keep.s this out of t1ght, and perfi1ades the foul, ·while ke can, that the Lord is all made yup · of 1nercy, and fo lulls ic afleep in fin. Divine ju~ flicc
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