ftice is very firi~ ; it mufl: have fatisfaaion to the utmoft farthing ,; it denounceth indignati()n and wrath, tribulation and anguifh, tfJ e7Jery foul that doth evil, Rom. 2. 8, 9· It curfeth every OI}e that con– tinueth not in every thing that is writ~en in the Law, to do it, Gal. 3. 10. The jufl:ice of God to the unpardoned finner, that hath a fenfe of his mifery, is more terrible than thefight of the Bayliffor Cre– ditor to the bankrupt Debtor, or than the fight of the Judge and Bench to the Robber, or of the Irons arid Gibbet to the guilty Murderer. When JuH.ice fits upon life and death, Oh, what dreadful .work doth it make with the wretched finner! Bind him hand and foot, caft him into utttr darkne{s ; there foall be weeping, andgnajhing of teeth, Matth. 2 2. I 3. Depart from me, ye curfed, into everlafting fire, Matth. 2;. 4r. This is the terrible fentence -that Jufi:ice ,pronounceth. Why finner, by this fevere Juftice . muft t,hou be .tried; and as God liveth, this killing fentence ibalt thou hear, unleis thou repent, and be converted. Secondly, The bolinefs of God k fuU of tt1ftipathy t– gainft thee, Pfal. 5'. 4, ; . He is not only angty with thee, (fo he may be with his own children,) but he hath a fixed, rooted, habitual difpleafure againft thee; he !oaths thee, Z~cb: I r. 8. and what is done by thee, though for fubftance commanded by hi1n, I[a. I. I 4· Mal. r. re. As ifa man ihouldgivehis fi~r- . vant never fo good meat to drefs ; yet if he fuould mingle filth or poyfon with it, hewould Bot touch it. God's nature is infinicely contrary to fin, ahd fo he cannot but hate a finner out of Chrift. Oh, what a mifery is this, to beout~~ the favour, yea, under the hatred ofGod! Ecclef. r. 4 Ho f. 9· I 5'. That God can as eafily lay afi.de .1is nature, and ceafe to be God, as not be contrary to thee, and detefi thee, -e.icept thoubechanged and renewedby grace! - Ofm=
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