lSS A GALL TO ' UsE.-From what bath been said, you may further learn these following things: 1. From hence you may see, not -only what blasphemy and impiety it is to lay the blame of men's destruction upon God; but also how unfit these wicked wretches are to bring in such a charge against their Maker! They cry out upon God, and · say he gives them not grace, and his threatenings are severe, and God forbid that all should be condemned that be not converted and sanctified; and they think it hard measure that a short sin should have an endless suffering; and if they be damned, they.say they cannot help it, when in the mean time they are busy about their own destruction, even the destruction of their own souls, and will not be persuaded to hold their hands. They think Gcd were eruel, if he should condemn them; and yet they are so ,cruel to themselves, that they will run into the fire of hell, when God hath told them it is a little before them; and neither entreaties, nor threatenings, nor any thing ,that can be said, will stop them. VIe see them almost undone; their careless, worldly, fleshly lives tell us that they are in the power of the devil; we know, if they die before they are converted, all the world cannot save them; and knowing the uncertainty of their lives, we are afraid every day lest they drop into the ,fire: and therefore we entreat them to pity their ovvn souls, and not to undo themselves when mercy is at hand; and they will not hear ns. vVe entreat them to cast away their sin, and come to Christ without delay, and to have some mercy on themselves, but they will have none; and yet they think that God must be cruel if he condemn them. 0 wilful miserable sinners! ii is not God that is cruel to you, it is you that are cruel to yourselves; you are told you must turn or burn, and yet you turn not. You are told that if you wil l needs keep, your sins, you shall keep the curse of God with them; and yet you will keep. them. You are told that there is no way to happiness but by
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