\ ... '- , · tzo , TIJt D8ffrint .r;f the·State of' ll'rath State H. am.ong!h.hofe tha~ pierced him~ Rev. i. 7. Thou haft rejec– ted him as well as the J e:wJ did-; and by-thy rejeding him, · thou haft jufi:i6ed their deed,. They indeed did not ack'now– Jedge him to ··be the 'Son ·of 'God, but .thou·dofi. \Vhat the}( did againfl: him, was in his Hate of ·humiliation ; : bklt thou hall acted againll him, in his fiate of exaltatiel). - Thefe , ' things will ag~ravate thyc~ndemnation. What wonder theo, if the voice of the Lamb, change to the rocuing ,of .the lion; .againO: the -traitor and murderer. ' ObjeCl. Butfome will fay, Is there not ..a vafl difpr_opora tion btfnJJixt ,our.jin, a-nd that ~ratkyott talk of. . I anfwer., N0; God punifheth no .more than the fmner eeferves; To :recl:ify your miftake in this matter, copfider, (c) The va.ft , · rewards God :· pas annexed. to obedience. His word is oo m<rr e full ~f fiery wrat.h ·againft fin, :than .it. i3·of .graciou3 . re:wards,_to the obedience it requires. If heaven be in.the prom~fes,· it is altogether equal that hell be in t~.e tbreatnings. If death were not in the balance with Hie, eternal mifery with eterna] happinefs, ~vhere were the -pr-oportion ? More– over fio deferves the mifery, but our befl works do not de– ferve the ha-ppifief$: yet both ar~ fet before us: '4o and_mi– fery, holinds and happinefs. :·VVhat r,afan is here .then _to complain ? . (2.) How fevere'·fo~li·er :the ·threatnings b~; ' yet all has. enough ado to rea<;h th~ end of th~ ·law. -Fea11 him', 'fays 0ur Lo:dt .""JJbich -·after. he:hath killed, hat'hporwer to cafl into hell; ,yea, !fay unto youfiar him, Luke x:i. 5. 'this befpeaks our dread of divine power and majefiy; but yet how few fe:1r him indeed ! The Lord knows tlle f!noers · hearts to be exceedingly inteot upon-Julfillipg their lulls: they cleave fo Jondly tO thofefulfo,I?e breafis, that a fmall forcedoes not fuffice todraw t.hem away from them• . Th~y that travel through defarts, where they are.in hazard. from wild beafls, have need to carry are along with tb~m ;. and they have n~ed of a hard wedge that·have ,, knotty timber , to cleave; fa a holy law mufi be fenc t,l with a <lreadful wrath, in a wo rld lying in wickedoefs. But who. are they tint complain of that wrath as too .great, but•thofe to wrwm it-·is tno little to draw them '()ff from their finful courfes ? It was the man who pretended to fear his Lord, becaufe he ~as an aullere man, th'at kep't hi~ pound laid up . in :11 12ap.kin • and fo he;wai ·condtttmtd qut.pfbis ·o·wn moutb, · .J..ulf.e
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