.(30) , ~hefe. : an·d yet would be accounted wife or ·honourab~ e? Den .need to t.eH thee, as N tuha~: did D.tvid. that [ -Tho~ art·thr ,;1Jitf"?] Do I need.in fo plain a c~fe to tell you~ · due you have ' been doingn't~rfo, (I fpeak not ralhly) a tho'uf~nd timts Warfr:, . aga:infi your fouls, then this woald have been- whjch is fuppofcd to beonly againO: your bodies! Alas fdt-del:1royers, wh~t do you mean ? Did God fend you birher on rio better an errand than to .kindle and blow the fire of his wra th, and fall into it when you h<IV~- kindled it? H,tve you no becrer work in the-world to do, then to prepareyour felves a pla.ce in hell? and with a great deal .of care, and tofl, andfi.ir • to labour for damnation, as if you were afraid of Iofing it? I know you will fay, [ Gr;d f erbjd, we hope better, we inren.d .no {Hch thing] Bur ahs the quefl:ion is not, Wh.+tt you inttnd, but :what you. are doing? Not whether it bepur de(ire rba-r ev( rl:i]f. ,;ng de.tthjhou!d!Je the wa!f.esof (in, but: whether it be the 'Law .! nd unchanget~hle will of God ! Rom. 6. 23. If you feik,_notjirft Gods / ,Kingdom andhu righteouf ne/J, ar.d !O('k not afcer the One thf;g ,needful, with your chiefefl: Eftimaticn , -Re[olmio», and Endu<– .vours, as fure as Chrifi is true, this will prove your ta/e aG Ja fi, though now you wink, and wilfully go on, and will nor believe it : As lure as the Gofpd is true,this is true. There are but two Ends, Heaven and.Hell; and if you mifs the former, you fall into the latter. If ycu live ll[ter the fle(b, youfo~ll die, whatever you imagine ·: and you mufi morrifte theduds af the flejb by the JPirit ., if you will live, Rom. 8. I 3. If you fee a man cutting his own throat, and y~u ask him, [ what areyou doing man ! willyou k,jll -your feif ? ] and he anfwereth you, 'JI{g, Cjod forbid ; I have nQ · juch muming; 1 will hope better ]. Would you think thac th is wo.uldfave his life ? or that his ho,:u and meanings would prove him ever the wifer man? lrell you from the Word of God, it is one of the pl.aindl truths that is then~ contained, that if you 'U,.-.!ue not, chaofenot, andfeck. mnhe On.e thing Nredful abo.H all ~th(r things wllarfoever, you are all this whil~ but fO\ving the feeds of cndlefs mifery, whofc freit youmgfi reap in outrrd~rk..nrfs, where Will ~e weeping , and wailing., and gnafhing of feft h , M at. 1.3. 4Z, )O. You are trtafuring up Wrnth ~gainfl the df.ly of .;wrath, and the rtvt!at;on of the rigbttom jHdgfment of God"- . wh~ Will giveto nHrJ m11n ..recording to hu work..!, Rom. 2, 5, 6. You ,ireJu~i»g "in plcafure eo the ~efoi in ~ating, and drinking ,,and mmh,
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