130 Alarm to the Unngenerate. ... State H. gone from God already; 'with the curfe upon yo~., That fh«.H ~e your punifument at Length (-if ye return not) which is now your chQice. As a gracious Hate is a Hate of glory lo the bud; fo a gracel~fs il:ate is hell in the bud; which, 'if it continue, will come to per feet ion at .length. · /Vlotive 3· Confider the dreadful in!hnces of the wr~th I of God ; ·and let them ferve to awaken thee to flee out of this lla.re. Confider ( J .) How it is fallen on men. Even in . this world, many have been fet up as monuments of divine vengeance, that others might fear. Wrath has fwept t1way multitudes, who have fallen together by .the hand cf an angry God. Confider how the Lord }pared not the old rwor/d brirz.ging jn the flood upon the worldof the ung,di)' : and turning the cities of Sodom and G'omorrah in_to ajhCJ~ condemning them rwith an overthrorw, making them an ex·- . ample unto thrfe that after jhould live ungodly, 2 Pet. ii. S• o. But it is yet more dreadful to think of that rweeping; ~uai/i;-;g, andgnalhing of teeth, amongft thofe, whp in hdl .lift_up tht(ir eyes, but cannot get a drop of water to cool their tongues: Believe thefe things, and be warned by them; Jell ddhuCl:ion come upoo thee, for a warning to others. (2 ) Confider how wrath fell upon' the fallen angels, whofe . cafe is abfolmely hopelefs. They were the firft that vemu- , red to b'reak the hedge of the divine hl.w ; and God fet ~ them up for monuments ' of his wrath againft Go. They once left their own habitation, · and were never allowed to ~ lo()k in aga'ln at the ~ole of ~he, door ; but they are refirvrd 'in et•erlajling chainJ, under darhmfl, u·nto the jztdgment ~( the grearda;', Jude 6. Lajffy, Behold bc>w an :mgry God dealt with his owo Soo, Handing in the room of elect !inners, . , J.?om. viii. 3~· Codfparedn,qt ,his orum S?rl, $pa1in~ mei'CY might have been expeOed~ if any at aiL If any perfo11 could have obtained i.t, furely his own Son would have got it ; but he fp~red him not. TheFather's delight is,made aman of forrows : he who is the wifdom of God ·becomes fore a-mr.zed, ready to faint away, with a fit of horror. The weight of this wrath makc;s him.fLtJeat great dnp.r of blood'. · By the fiercenefs of this fire, .his f,eart was like rwax melted in the midfi of hi! horwe!J. Behold here how fevere God is . againfl: fin ! the fun was ·ftruck blind with this terrible fight, Arock.s were rent;. gra~yes opened, death 1 · as ·it w.ere, io the excefs.·
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