zon. I I7 him, condemned him, nailed him, crucified him, and put him to open fhame, I{a. 5' 3· 4, )_, 6. This is that deadly poifon, fo powerful of operation, as that one drop of it fbed upon the root of mankind, hath ccrrupted, fpoiled . and poifoned and undone his whole race at once, Rom· ; . 18, I 9· , This is the common butcher,the bloody executioner, that hath killed the Prophets,burnt the Martyrs) murdered aU the Apoftles, all the Patriarchs, all the Kings and Potentates, that hath defiroyed Cities, fwallowed Empire!;, but:chered and devoured whole Nations. \Vhatever \\·as the weapon that 't.was · done~' fin wa~ it thac di<!i execution, RD-m·. 6. ·2 J· Dofi: thou yet think it but a fmall thing? If Adam and all his children could be digged out of their grave~, and their bodies piled up to heaven, an~ an inquefi: were made, what matchJe(s murderer were guilty of an this blood; it would be al l found in the skirts of fin. Study the nature of fin, till thy t eanbe brought to fear and loath it. And meditate on the aggrava– tions of thy particular f1ns; how.thou haft finned againft aH God's warnings, againft thine own pray– ers, againft mercies) againft con· ea iocs) againft cleareft light, againit freeft love, againft t :1ine own refolutions, againft promifes, vcws:t covenants of better obe.Jience, &c. Charge thy heart hon1e with thefe things, till it blufn for fhame, and be bro.ught out of all good opinion of it feJf, Ezra 9· 6.. Medit.tte upon th ::..de{ert of fin. lt cryeth up to heaven : It calls for vengean::e, Gert . r 8. 21. 1ts due · wages is-death, and damnation: It pulls the Cilrle of God upon tre foul anJ body, Gal. 3· I o. Deut. ~ s. The leaft finful word or thought lays thee under the infinite wrath of God .Aln1ighty, Rom. 2. 8) 9 • filattb, I'· 36. Oh, what a loasi of wrath, tvhat a ·weight of curfes, what tre.afure of vengeance hav.e all the mi.llions ofthy fins then-deferved? Rom. 2 . ;. ~ tJT; J v . •
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