·The Miferies of the Vncoizverted. 103 ef thy felf, and be driven to Chrift, and fly for re– fuge, to lay hold upon the hope that is fet before thee, Heb. 6. 18. V, Thy raging lufts do mif~rably enflave thee. While unconverted, thou art a very fervant to fin, it reigns over thee, and holds thee under its domi– nion, till thou"art brought within the bond of God,s covenant, 'fob. 8. 34, 36. Tit. 3~ 3. Rom. ~- r 2· I 4· Rorn. 6. 16, 17. Now there's no fuch Tyrant as fin:. 0 the filthy a1:1d fearful work that it dorh engage its fervants in! Would it not pierce a ·tnan's heart to fee a company of poor creatures drudging and . toiling, anq all ·to carry together faggots and fuel for their own burning? Why, this is the employ– ment of fin's drudges: Even while they blefs tnem– felves in their unrighteous gainsl \vhile they fing · and fwill in pleafures1 they are but treafuring up wrath and vengeance for their eternal burnings ; they are but laying in powder and bullets1 and ad· ding to the pil~ ef Tophet, and flinging in oy1 to make the flame rage_ the fiercer. \Vho would ferv!31 · fuch a mafl:er, "vhofe work is drudgery, and whofe ·wages isdeath? Rom. 6. 2 3· What a woful fp~ctacie was that poor wr~tch poffetfed with the legion? \Vould it not have pi.. tie?d thine heart to have feen hin.1 among the tombs, ~utting and \VOunding of hi1nfelf? Mar. ) . ) . This • IS thy cafe, fuch is thy work; every Hroke is a thrufi at thine heart, r Tim. 6. I o. Con!cience in– deed is now aileep ? but when death and judgtnent £hall bring thee to thy ienfes, then ·wilt thou feel the raging fmart and anguifh. of every \VOund. The · convinced finner is a fenfib1e inflance of the tni– ferable bondage of fin : Confcien9e fli~~ upon him, and tells hin1what the end of thefe things will be ; andyet fuch a flave is he to his Iufts, that on hemuft, though he iee it wjll be his endlefs .. p-~rdit~on; and. F ~~ ,, --· when
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