Tht lve~f.fJity of' Rege-neration. , St:1te lfl. '\Vill ' he take the children of the devil ,. ' and give them 10 fi t with h!m in his throne? Or, will he brio,g the uo– clean into t he city whof~ !heet is pure gofd ? Be not decei y• ~d,- grace ;,t!J d glory are but two links· ef one chain, which God has j oined, and no man fhall put afunder. None are traofplanted into the paradi!e above, but out of the nurfery of grace below. If ye be unholy while in th is world, ye· wiU be for ever miferable in the world to come. ( 3.) All the unregenerate are without Chrifl, and therefore have no _ IH;pe while ~n that cafe, Eph. ii. 11. _\\' il! Chrift ptepar e manfions of glory foi them that refufe to receive him into . their hearts ~ Nay ; rather, will he not laugh at their ea· ·. /amity, who nowfit at nought a!/ hiJ" counftl? !Jrov. i. 2 5. :26. Lajily, There is an infal1ible conne~ion betwixt a final– ly unregeoeJate llate and damnation, arifing from the natur e .of the things themfelves; and from the decree of heaven; which is fixed and unmoveable as mountains ofbrafs; John iii. 3· Rom. viii. 6. 'folie catna!ly'minded iJ death . Anunre– generate fiate is bell in the bud. It is ecernal ,deltJUction i!l embryo; growingdaily, tho' thou doLl: not difcern it., Deatb i.s painted on many a fair face, in this 'life. Depraved na– 'ture makes men meet to be partakers of the inheritance o.fthe~ damned 'in utter d·atknefs. ( 1.) The hear~ of fione withia . thee, is a finking weight, as ·a fione naturally goes down.– ward ; fo the hard fiony heart tends dow.nw.ar.d .to the bo,t– tomlefs pit. Ye are hardned again-!l re'proof: though ye are told your danger; yet ye will not fee it,. ye wiil not be.– Jieve ;it. But reme111ber>. that the confcience i.tsbeing now feared with a hot iron, is a fad prefage of everfalbng burn– ings.'· (2.) Your unfruitfulnefs under the means 0f grace :fits you for the ax of God's. j.udgments, Matth. iii. 10. £,. , "'Jery tree that hring~th not forth ·good fruit, i.t hewn dQ'l.A..tn .:,;d cafl into the.fi-re~ The with-ered branch is fuel for the fire, John .x·v. 6~ Tremble at this, ye defpifers of the go-· ,fpel : if ye be not thereby made meet for heaven, ye will be like the -hanen ground, bearing briers am/ thorm, tJigh -Mnlo curjing, rwhoft end h lor6-e burned, Heb. vi. 8. ( 3·) The hellifh d1fpofitions of mind, whic~ difcover them(elves in profanity of life, lit the guilty fm: the regions of hon or. A profane life will have a miferable end . Th~ty which dr> fuch thing1 foal/ Mt inlxtfi t the f.i1:gdomofGod, Gal. v. l9<' 2,0.,
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