( S3') donot work ! But yon mufi burn in Hell , if with fear anddiii• · gem:e you werk.. not out pur_ ownfalvation, pbit. ~· :2. (_for a~l. that it is God that worketh m you). You muft he m pnfon 1f your debts be not paid : But you will be cafi _into outer darknefs, if by the pardon of your fins, you be not dtfcharged from your- . 4ebt to God. You may become beggars if you be idle in yoer Callings : But you will be the prifoners of Hell , a_nd fbut o~;u of· all the Happinefs of the Saints, if you labour not for the food , thaE doth nor perifh, and {hive not to ent~r in at the fir.ait gate,: and .give not diligence to make your Callmg and Elecbon fure•. 'John 6. 27. Matt h. 7. 1'3. Luk.! 13. 24. 2. Pet. I. I o. You muft. fuffer hunger and nakednefs,if you have not food an~ rayment: · But you mufi fuffer everlafiing\y the wrath of God, tf }1 0ll have not the One thing nece.ffary. Y0u will betbe fcorn and laughing– frock of men , if ~:ou fall under their cGntempt· and lofe your honour : ·But you will be the enemies ofGod, and hated by him-~ . if you continue -ro contemn his grace. 0 had you but feen the I.:ife to come, you would fay, There is ar N ece{sity of attaining it ! ·Had you been one hour in Hell , you w~uld think that there is aNecefsity .ofefcaping it,and that there is no Nece[rity to this•. What fay yol'l to all this? · Is it not .of Truth and lVeight 1' Can you denyit ? Or fhould youmR.k.! light of it? None but an · Infidel can deny it ;J and none but a dead-hearted !inner can make: · light of it. Believe the Word of God, and the Tr14th of it will be pafl: queOion with you :·Confider but that you are men that have immortal{ot.Jls ; and the -weight of i-t will appear ineilimable-.' to you ; .above contempt; above negleCt. Believe it Sirs, yGu. may as well fee without light, and-breath without air-, and be fupported without earth, or live without food, as ·be faved·with-: out Holine{s -, or happy ·without the One . thing necrf{arp Heb~. I2.14. ]ohn 3· 3, 5• Matth. I~L 3· And when this is refolved-' of by God,and fl:ablifhed as his HandingLaw,and he bath told it you fo oft and plainly, for any man now to fay , [Twillyet hope- · for better '; Jhgpe to be faved OI'Najiertermss without all tlm ado].: !s no better t~e~ to fet ,pis face.againfi the God of heaven, ,and- '· 1ntlea-d of be!tevmg God, . to believe the contradiCtion of bis own . u~ godly hcoart; and to hope to be faved. whether .God will .or-· not ; and to give thedie to.his Crtator ·, u<Bder the·. pretence of. tru}l:,. anrl fr()Pt~ -!~ is in~~ed to hope for imnf;ibititif-J. ~ ~ To be,' - ~ - j? - · - ··__ r. ·· fa;vcd..J,
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