t4'I ') ·a Saviour, and cannot find enough in Gocl and Gfory, to take off their hearts from the pleafures and idols of the ffefh. If Chrifl: .Would ha11egatheredyou tU ahengathereth her chickJn.r. under her :wings, and you would not (Matrh. 23. 37.) you will be as far from being faved by him, as if you bad never heard of. lHs name. And yet that is not all : If you prevent it not by true Co~·verfion, you will wi£h a rhoufand and a thouf<md times, that rhrs .werealL: But there is worfe then thh· : For Chrifl: will not leave a m~m of you as he finds you : If you are fo far in love wi rh .worldly wealth and fldhly p!eafure, that you can tafl:e no fweet– nefs in his Grace, and fee no defirable glory in his Kingdom, he will make you tafie the bitternefs af his wrath,and feel the weight of his fevereJ1 jufiice. The mofi compaffiont~te Saviour is the moft .dreadful [udge , to rhofe tha£ wil i not be faved by his grace. 1t: wi ll be eaf1er for Sodome and Gornorrah in the day of Judgement~ then for thofe that were the obfl:inate refufe rs of his Gofpd :l Matt h. 6. I I, I 2. He that defPifedMo[es La'W dyedwithout mer n, .under two or thru witnejfes ; of how much {vrer punijlmm., r •tl hebe thought worthy, that hath trodden under foot the fon of GoJ? Heb. I 0. 28, 29. See therefore th-¥t ye refufe not him that fjeafe!th. For if they e(caped not that refufedhim that fjak_e rm ettrth, how .much more /ball not we efcape, ifwe turn away from him that [feak.,.. tth from hMven ! Heb. I 2. ·2 3. 7· As long as you neglect the Om thing Needful, whatever good C@nceits of your felves you have entertained, andwhatever hopn, or peace, or cqmfort, you h.1ve built upon thofe conceits , tbey_ are all but meer debtjions andirrationlfll,like the laughter of a mad .man, that is no comfort to the :ftanders by ,_who know that it is hue the fruit of his difl:emper, and maketh him an object of more co~paffion. What wifdom is it to look high and carry it gallant– ly m the world, when you know not but vengeance may over– take you the next hour? Alas man thou hafl to do with God : Tbough thou fee him not, it is h'e that upholds thee, and ob– fe:verh thee, and looketh for Love and Duty from thee, and . 'vt!l be Glorift_tdby thee, or thou {halt dearly anfwer it : God will ·?ot b_e neglected and abufed at fo cheap a rate as fottiili Infidels . tmagme, He defpifeth thee, if thou defpife him, 1 Sam. 2. 3o. and th01;1 defpifofl him, if thoudefpife his Mejfengers, and Word, and Wa;e.r, ~~~k.! !~· .!~~ ! '[_~ef. 4· 8.GAnq ~f q_~~~ejpife ~~ee,hwhat , Q111Hr -- I - -*--·-
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