Serm. I 5 when Inward and Outward rroubles meet ? 347 good, fo the wicked mull look to have God as good as his word for Zach.1.6. evil. Did not my Word tak. r hold of your Fathers ? 5. No time can remit Gods anger : if you offend a man, and he Real. 5. be angry, you may get out of' the way, and time will wear off the me- mory of the offence,or at leaft affwage his paffion, but'tis not fo with God ; but if he be once angry, he is for ever angry the fame caufe, which is fin unrepented, remaining, Pfah 7.1 I. God is angry with the wicked every day, for the fins he commits one day; the Anger of the Lord, unlefs he works a change in es abides upon us, burning to the bottom of Hell. Pfd. 90. I I. 0 ! as his fear is, fo re his wrath , and a thoufand times more. 6, Lally, the firmer is as much under the power of God at oni Re" 41: 6, time as at another, forty , a hundred , a thoufand years after a fin is committed as when the fin was firftdone. As the People ofGod are born up with that word Behold the hand of the Lord is not Jt ortned tbat he cannot fay:, Efay 59.1 . So the wicked fink under the terror of that word, Ezekzz 14. Can thy heart hold and thine hands he flrong when I'hall vifit, when I (hall deal with joss faith the Lord ? This is the firíl Reafon from God. Reaf. a,From Sin.In a Two -fold Confideration of every fin,wherein there are two things which make fin unrepented fure to be called back. I. There is in every fin a breach of the eternal rule of Righteouf- Reed t: nefs. I John 3. 4. Now the breach of an Eternal Law , mull needs be Eternal unlefs he which is Eternal make it up (i. e. Chrill in giving repentance and remiflìon,) Make a breach in a lone wall, you may come many years after and find it as you left it, and it mull hold as long as the wa.il holds if it be not made up;, even fo it is in this cafe. Let one come from the dead and warn us, thofe poor curfed caflaways are í}i11, and mull be Rill , and ever, crying out under the wrath of God. What is the reafon I pray ? verily not only becaufe they finned out of an affection and fpring to fin for ever, but alto be- caufe every fin is objectively infinite and eternal, being againll. the In. finite Eternal Law of the Eternal God ; nów the Law being wronged by the finner,demands and folicites the Juflice and Vengeance of God againfl him, till it be fatisfied to the utmoll farthing, therefore till then (i, e. for ever) mull the wrath of God abide upon him and if time wears not out the breach of the Eternal Law in Hell, mucblefs Both it make any alteration therein here,while thou doubicft and zrei I& thy fin, by going on with an impenitent heart, X y 2. Then*
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