354 HorwJhould itOHS.tian behave himfelf Serm. iÿ. fay you,tkey are armed with fome inftrurnenrs of death,they owe each other a deadly grudge, there is of old a mortal feud between them they'll take this opportunity to vent their malice to 'the utmofi, O 1 one of them will fall and die for it. My brethren, God and the (inner in his fins,are according to the tenour of this Book enemies, hated of and hating one another; and when God vifitsfin upon him,he falls up- on him,and deals with him (as i may fay) hand to hand, and now one of them muff go to the walls, God or the fiinner muff fall : Take it in Gods own challenge, Ezel, z i i 4.. in the 13. verf. God complains the firmer had given him a blow ; but then faith God Cant} thou indeed make thy part good when I (hall be in good earnefi with thee ? Can thy heart hold out, can thine hands be frong in the day that I!hall deal with thee ? O ! confider and tremble at it,how God will thus deal with thee, and how infinitely,thou being a guilty worm, art over- matcht by Om- nipotercy, whofe wrath will one day wax hot againa thee even to the utmoff. Plat. 39 fub fan. O 1 faith David, -i'hen thou with rebukes doeft correl man for iniquity,thot makeff his beauty,even all hir hopes and de. fires to conf time away as a moth, &c. Sad was the cafe of the children of Benjamin ,of whom we read judg; z,o, they had fought againit their Brethren twice and prevailed, they ventured out the third time,but then the battle went againff them,the Ambufcadoes cut them off, and others fired the Town behind them ; G 1 the horrour and amazement they were Bruck withal , when they could not Rand before the face of the Tribes which were before them, and they faw their City all on a flame behind them ; O ! laid they, .Now is evil befallen us, and they were tro4en down as dirt. Thou wretch which art í}i1! in thy fins,haft fought againft God many &many rimes, and feemed to carry the day, but when God fhall come upon thee in his firength, and thou (halt fee all the refuge of creature comforts in defpairing cafe, as on fire behind thee, what reprobate aftonifhment will then take hold on thee ! now comes thy diftra&ing mifgiving, defpairingthoughts? now evil is befallen me ! now is God come upon anc, and will make an end of me at once ! now carne the floods of my ungodlinefs in á main, and the floudgates of Gods wrath are opened upon me; Now the arrows of the Almighty flick fafi in me,and the potion thereof drink up my fpirit,and the terrours of God fet themfelves in array agatnfine, Job 6.4. and as the Church, Lam. 2.. za. Now hath God fummoned ( and muttered) as iu a felemn day of battel between hua andny poor foul,my terrors round about mel O ! you that. have been twclity er ,thirty,fourty,fifty years, even ev nce you wereborn, a piro- vocatton,
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