Serm. 15 when Inward 4nd Outward Troubles meet ? 355 vocation, and yet alfo forget God: Confider thefe things before he falloPfal.so.22. span you, and tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver ; for allure our felves, there is a time when God will call over fins -pact, and charge them home upon the Confcience. But you will ask,,what is the fign, and when fball thefe things be ? .ue.f. A. C Anfwer. The God of Spirits can at any time, and will in his Anfw. own time certainly fall upon thy Spirit with horrour and confuuon.; Deur.3225 efpecially and ufually at thefe particularInítants. I. After á certain term of Patience abufed and expired. God is patient toward all men, and this patience is as the banks which keep in his wrath, that it breaks not in upon thee, but 'twill not be always fo ; there banks have their bounds, and as thy fin abides, it rifes with thee,, and as Gods wrath abides on thee it rifes with God, till at Jail it fwels up to the bank of his patience , and then it is a thoufand times more dreadfull than the Sea to overwhelm thee. Gods Patience and thy refpite bath it's date, Gen. 6. 3. I to years to them, and then - -- So it Tarditatem may be fo many years, or moneths, or weeks, or days to thee , and vindiffaz tom; then ..- Lafa patientia fit furor ; and as Lead, the colder, when Cold penfatgr.vita- te fupphci. the hotter when hot. Amos 6.3: 2. When the {inner is fecure the lefs fear the more danger the Muth. 24. more thou putteft the evil day from thee, the nearer it is to thee. God 48, So. Thal' cut thee off in an hour when thou art not aware ; when thou fayeft my Matter delays his coming. As the Flood came upon the old World as fome fay in the Spring, or Summer, when they would lea{t MufcxlMs on have dreamed if it. God deals with the fanner as Samuel with Avg, Gen* when he fid furely the birternefs of death is pall, then comes the mef -, Sam. r5, fenger of death from the Lord to cut him in pieces, I Thef. 5. 3. When 32, 33. the wicked cry peace,peace (nothing but peace) then comes fudden deflru- Etion upon there, as travel upon a woman, &c. dolt thou biefs thy felf Deut.a9.I9,2® in thy fins, as if thy condition were good, or thy account far off, as the Lord lives there is but a fiep between thee and death. 3. After the commiffìon of fome great fin, this like foe ggreat blow, which awakens the Confcience to fee the whole account ;' as in Cain, 7sudas,. &c.. God deals with the inner, as Solomon with Shimei, be reviled his Father David, but David feems to forget it, and fo,did his Son Solomon, only he is bound by an oath not to go out of yerufa- lem; he breaks his oath and goes out, Solomon upon this comes upon K;ng: 2. 44. him f<or the breach of his Covenant and oath ; and alto for former re- bellions, and Iremember,faithhe, »hat thou didfi to .my Father .D. d. Rear, 4 4. On thy death -bed (not to (peak of 'Judgement wba we ft a or.S.I. Z z acçoint
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