The Necejfity ·eonverfion. is maintained in a way of fin , Deut• . 19. I 9, 1o.' Two forts of pe~ce are more to be dr~aded, than all the troubles in the world,; peace w1th fin, and peace in fin! . Secondly, .Tby hopes of falvation bereafter are in vain; yea, worfe than in vain; they are moft inju.., rious to God, · mofc pernicious to thy felf: There is> death, defperation, ·bl~fphemy in the bowels of this hopi!. , I • . There is death in it. Tby corfidence jball be · rooted out of thy tabern:acles (God will up with it, root and branch) it fhalt bring thee to the 'I(ing of terrourr, ,· Job x8. 14. Tho, thou mayeft leanupon this houfe,it.:~ will not ftand, 'Yob.8'.r). but v.rill prove like a ruinoU£l " building, whieh when an1an trufts to, it falls·down about his eai·s. . :z,. There udefpetation in it. W/Jere h - the hope of the byp.ocrite, wben God takes aw,zy hk foul? · Job. 17·. 8. Then there is an end fo(.~ver of his bop~o . Indeed, the hope .ofthe righteous hath an end ;· but · · then 'tis·not a deftruetive, but a perfeCtive·end·; his·,. l1ope ends in fruition, others ifl fruftration, Prov~ 1 o. 2 8. The go~Jly muft fayat death, It if jtnijhf·i. ; but · the wicked~ It i.;.perijbed ; and in too fad~earnefe· be– nloanhimfelf,_ (as:fob in amiftak-e,) 1¥here now_,u.·:my · bope? He l;atb dejtroyed me, I am go~,_ ~ndmy ·hope kre• ·· moved like a tr.ee, Job r9. 1 o. TiJe figbteop~ batlf'hope in his death, Prov. I 4·. 3 2. When nature is -dying, .. l1is hopes ar~Jiving.; when his l?o4y is languiihing,_. his hopes -are .:flourifhitlg ; his hope is .. a living-.. hope~ 1 Pet. r. 3· f-!1~· ~\mdti Zw~v, but others -a dying; . yea a damning, foul.: undoing hope. fYben awicked . mandiftb, hii expectation jh:tU periJb, a1zd the hope:of ztn- · jufl men pedfbeth, Prov• -I r. 7· · ltjhall be cut' cff;' and . -~~?Ye like th~ Spider's web, Job 8. I 4~ \vhich :~. he .. . ~p1ns out of fus own bowels; but then co1nes death · -with the broom, and takes do,.vnalh and fo there is .. ··an eternal e})d o.fhis confidence, whe·rein he trufiedo . Etlr t,]e e}£S cj the wick_edjhdll fail~ and "Plveir bope.fl~a'll D ..:) · be ·
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