iniquity will be y0urruin! Ezek.r 8.3o. Alas for poor hardned finners! NInil: I leave you at laH where you were? Mufi I leave· tbe tipler frill at th~ ale-bench1 Mufi I leave the wanton Hill at his dalliance? l\1ufi I leave the malicious ftill in his venom ?· And the .drunkard ftill at his vomit? However! you mufi ·know. that you h~ve been warned, and that I am clear of your bloo~I. And whet~er n1en will hear, .or whether they wtll forbe:dr, I wtllleave thefeScri– ptures with the1n, either as thunder bo-lts to awaken then1, or 2sfearing irons toharden thetn to a repro-' ,bare fenfe, Pfal 68. 2 I. God jhalLwound the beadof hu ~nemies, and tbe hairy fcalp cffuch anone M goeth fJn ftill in bis tre[tJajJes, Prov.\ :z. 9· r. He that being often repro– ved, bardnetb his neck, }hall [uddenly be deftroyed, and' that without rem~·dy, Prov. r. 24, &c. Becaufe r have .c,tlled, andye refujed,; I bave ftretched out 11zy bttml, and r:o man regardffd, &c. l will mork atyour.calamity,– rzb.en y.our deftruffion cometb M a "fflbirl- wind. And now I imagine, many will begin to blefs then1felves , and think all is well, becaufe they can– not be [potted with the groifer evils above-mention– ed. Eut I mtdt further tell you, tha_t there are a- • nother_fort of unfanttified perfons, that_carry not their rnarks in their foreheads, but more fecret] y .and<:overtly, in their hands. Thefe do frequently. deceive thernfelves and others, and pafs for good· Chri!tians·, when they are all the while unfound at ·:bottorn. MaL1Y pafs undifcovered, till death and j udgment bring a!ll to light. Tho1e felf-deceivers feem to come even to heaven's gatewith confidence of their admiffion, and yet are turned off at lait, ~~at , 7. 2-2. Brethren, Beloved, I befeechyou deep.– ly to lay toheart, and finnly to retain this awaken· ingconfideration ; That multitudesmifcarryby tbe ba'f'..~,1 f.( fome fecret fin, that is not only hidden from otbers, but ( jor w~u;t of cbfrving their own 1: carts) et;en from tbem- {eb;u..
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