I 3 2 Ho·w 16 ~1ee from Wrath. State· I r. you may put on a br~afi-plate of iron~ make your brow brafss and yot1r heart as as an adamant : \\(ho can h'elp it? But God will break that brazer1 brow, and make that ada-· mantine he~rt, at lat1, , to. fly into .a thoufand pieces. Ye may; if ye wiJJ, ]about tO putthefe things Ollt of your J)eads, t.hat ye may,yet 'f1eep in a ·found /kin, tho' in a flatt of <tvrtY!h. Ye may run a·way with the arrows flicking in your ( Onfciences, tO yo_nr ' vork, tO work them away .; OT tO yoar beds to fleep the:1] out; or to company, to fport and laugh them~ away ; but 'conviC'tions fo {ii8ed will have a fearful reiurrr.Ction : and the day is coming, when the ar– J~ws of wrath ~1 idl fo ltick in thy foul, as thou {halt never ·be ablt to pluck ·t'hem o.ut, thro' the 2ges of eternity, un .. Jr:fs thel1 take ~;uning in time.- , . · But if ahy defire tcr'.flee from the wrath to come! and for tbat end, to koow what courfe to dke ; I offer them thefe few ad vices, and obtPft a~d befeech them, , as they / love their own fouls, to fall in with them. (I.) Retire your- · felv,es into fome fetret place, ;fnd. there meditate on th.is your mifery. Believe_it;' and fix your thoughts on it. Let each pm the CJUdl:Ian to himfdf. How can J live in this Hate ? '' How can I die in it ? How will I rife again, and itand be– fore tHe tribunal of God in it ?. { 2.) Confider feriou!ly 'the fin of vour nature, heart, and life . .A kindly fight of wr'atb flows frord a deep fenfe of fin. They wh~ fee the.rrlfelves exceeding fi.oful, will fj0d no great difficulty to perceive themfelves to be heirs of wrath. ( 3;) Labot.r to juflify God in this n)atter. To quarrel .with God about it, aqd to rqge like a wild b).lll in a ne_t, will bllt fix you the mote in it. Humiliation of foul, before the Lord, is neceffiuy for an efcape. God will not fell deliverance, but freely gives it to thofe, who fee themfdve~ altogether unworthy of his fa~our. La;1!y, Turn your eyes, 0 prifoners of h'ope, to-; wards,the Lord Jefus Chri{~; anp embrace hi~1-.as h~ offer– eth himfelf • .in the gofpel: Thcr e i1 n(} falv(Ztion in. any other, f\crs iv. 12. God is a con;'U.m;ng fire; ye are chil– dren fJj ~.JJrath· : if ~he ~.1ediator interpofe not betwixt ·him – . ~nd you, ye ate U(;done for ever. Ifye wo~ld be fafe$ coQJe ' under his fl1~dow: one dropof that wrath cannot fall there, for he delivereth us from the rwrath to come, I Tbdf. i. ro •. Accept of him in his covenant, whete.in heoffereth himfelf \ ' tO ' I ,,
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