Head II. Duty of thofe w.~o are dtlivered, &c. . 13) Laflly, Be wholly for your Lord. Every wife is Qbliged. to be dmifu! to l;ler husband ; but double ties ly upon her who was taken from a prifon or a dun·ghill. lf your Lord . . h<~s . delivered you from wrath, ye ought, upon that very account, to be wholly his ; to act for him, ·to fuffer for h im, and to do whatever he calls you to. The faints have no reafon to ccmpiain of their lot in the world, whatever it be. \Vell may they bear the crofs for him, by whom the curfe was born away from them. \Vel! may they bear the wrath of men, in his C<iuf.:, who has freed them from the wrath of God; and cheerfully go to a fire for him, by . , whom hell·fire is quenched to them. Soul and body, and all thou hacHt in the--world·, were r'rometime under \\(rath : he· has removed that wrath, fhall not all thefe be at his f~rv~ce ? )'hat thy foul is not overwhelmed \\'ith the wrath of God, is owing purely to Jdus Chrifi ;· and ihall it not then be a temple for his Spit it ? That thy heart is not fil– led with horror and def'pair, · is o,wiog to him only ; to whom tl}en fhould it be devoted but to him alone ?' That thine eyes are not blinded with the fmoke of the pit, thy hands are not fettered with chains of darknefs, thy tongue is not broiling in· the fire of hell, and ·thy feet are not fianding in that lake that burns with fire and brimfione, is owing purely to Jefus Chrift : and fhall not thefe eyes le employed fo~ him, thefe hands aCl: for him, that ton.gre fpeak for him, and thefe feet fpeedily run his errands? To hi:n w1w believes that te was a child of wrath, even as o– ther:s, but is now delivered by the bldfed Jefu~; nothing will appear too much, to do or fuffer for his · deli\erer, wh,eo he has a fair ca!1 to it. · H!. To c6J?clude ·with a word to all; Let no man think lightly of. fin, which lays the finner open !O the wrath of God. Let not the fin of our nature, which wreathes the yoke of God's wrath fo early about our necks, - feem a fma !l thing 10 our eyes. Fear the Lord, becaufe of his dread– ful wrath. Tremble at the thoughts of fin, againf1 which God has fuch £ery indignation. Look on his wrath, and Hand in awe, and fin not. Do you think this is to prefs you to flaviih f-ear! If it were fo, one had better be a flave to God with a trembling heart, than· a free man to the devil, with a 1e;ued confcience and a heart of adan1ant. l:hlt it is M 2 not
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