108 The lvfi(eries of the Vncon-verted. '_ fiedfaft, and ~very tranfgreffion and difobedience ' received a juft recompence of reward~ how fi1all ' we efcapc, if we neglett fo great falvation? Heb. ' 2. 2, 3. He that defpifed J,fc (es's law die-d without ' n-1ercy : ()f how much fore.r punifhn1ent fhall he 'be thought worthy, that hath trampled under foot . 'Lhe Son of God? Heb. 10. 28, 29. Application. And is this true indeel? Is this thy mifery ? Yea, 'tis as true as God is. Better open thine eyes, and fee it now, while thou rnaye :t reme- ·dy it, than blind and harden thy felf, till, to thine eternal forrow, thou fhalt feel what thou wouldff: not believe: And if it be true, whatdofi: thou mean, to loyter and linger in fuch a care as this ? - Alas for thee, poor man! How effefrually hath tin undone thee, and deprived anddefpoiled thee, even of thy reafon to look aftei· thine own everlaft;.. tng good ? <) miferab1e Caitiff! What ftupidity ·and 1enfe1efnefs hath furrrifed thee? Oh! let me knock up~ and awa1re tbis fleeper. · 'Vho dwells ·within the walls of this fleih ? Is there ever a foul here, a rational, underilanding foul? Or art thou Qn]ya walkingghoft, a fenfelefs lump? Art thou a reafonable foul, and yet fo far brutified,. as to for- - get thy felf immortal, and to think thy felf to be as thebe.afts tkat perifh? Art thou turned into flefh ? ·that thou favoureft nothing but gratifying the fenfe, and~rnaring provifion for the ft~i11? .. or eHe having -rea{on to undedtand tte eterntty of thy future e– ftate, do.fl- thouye.t make lightofbeing ever1a:ftingly niferable? \Vhich is to be io much below a brute,. as~ it is. worfc to aa againft reafon, tr,an to aa with– out it.. 0 unhapp;r ~')ul, that wa~ the gl?ry ?f m;tn> the rnate of Ar~e:·s . anJ the 1n1azc o.t Goo !· that wa~ Gi)d's 1 epref~ntative· in the world, and hadil the fuprernacy amo:-tgft the creatures, a:-~d the -':o;:n.ni~Jn over tby ~A.aker's works! Art chou ~ow · b~ome
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