- The Miferies of the Vnconverted. III expedition for preventing his utter ruin ? Q man ! Who hath bewitched thee,.Gal. 3. r. that in the mat– ters of this prefent life thou£houldfl: bewifeenough to forecaft thy bufinefs, forefee thydanger, and pre· vent thy mifchief; but in matters of everlafiing confequence fbouldft be flight andcarelefs, as ifthey little concerned thee? Why, Is it.Rothing to thee, to have all the attributes of Godengaged againft thee ? Canft thou do well without his favour ? Cantl: thou efcape his hands, or en~ure his ven– geance ? Doft thou hear thecreation groaning under thee, andhell groaning for thee, and yet think thy cafe good enough ? Art thou in the paw of the Lion, under the power of corruption, in the da~~ and noifotne prifon, fetter'd with thy luffs~ workihg out thine o vn damnation ; and is not this \VOrth the confidering? Wilt thou make light of all the ter– rours of the law, of all its curfes and thunder-bolts, as if they -were but the report of the children's pot– guns, or thou wert to war with their paper-pellets? Doft thou laugh at hell and deftrutlion, or canft thou drink the envenomed cup of the Almighty's fury, as if it v;ere but a commonpotion? · , Gird upn0w thy loins ike a man, for I will cle– mandof thee, and anfwer thou me, ;fob 40. 7. Art thou fuch a Leviathan, as that ·the fcales of thy pride fltould kee thee from, thy MaRer,s coming at _thee? \Vilt thou e te.ernhis arrows.. as ftraw, and the in– ftruments of death as rottcnv.rood? Art thou chief of all the children ofpride, even that thou fuouldft ((,Unt his dart:S aS ftubble, aL:d laugh at the fhaking of h.!s fpear? .t\.rt thoutnade \.\rit~out fear, and con– terLll(;t his barbed·irons? Job 41. Art thou like the horfc that paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth inhis 1treagth, who goeth out to meet the arn1ed men? Doft thou mock at fe~r, and art not affrighted, nei– tr...er turneft back fromGod's fword, when his quiver
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