'Head l. ~7he Ne-cef!ii:J ~fRegeneration . It}l :20. 21. Think on this, ye 'prayerlefs ·perfons, ye m·ocke"'s ·of religion, ye curfers and fwea·rers, ye unclean, and unjufl: 1 'perfons, who have not fo much as moral honefty· to ·keep ·~ou from }ying. cheating and flealing. Wh4t fort of .a ·tree thin.k ye it to be upon which thefe fruits grow ? ·Is 11 a t:ree.of righteoufnefs., which the -Lord hath planted? ·0 ·r. is it not fu-ch .ao ·one as cumbers the ground, which God will pluck up fo:r .fuel to the fit·e ·of his wrath ? (4·) Your -bei·ng dead in fin, makes you meet ' to be wrapt in ~arnes of 'brimfl:oo-e, as a ~indihg-fheet ; and to be buried in the bot· -tomlefs pit, as in a grave. Grea.t was tbe cry in Egypt~ when the tlrfl:-bo rn in each family was dead; but ate there •.not many famili·es, where all, are dead together ?, N<-y, 1'hany .there are: who are /rl.vice du!d, pludedup by the roots. Sometime, in t'heir life, the y have been rouz.ed by appre• ~henfionll of de·ath, and its confequences ; but now they are ·fo far on in their way to the laud of da1.knefs, th;<t the.y 'hardly ever have the leafl glimmering of light from J1eaven. (5.) The darko.efs of your minas prefageth eternai d.ar knefs •. o the horrid ignorance fome are plagued wlth: while others .:who have got fome rays of .reafon-'s li ght into their heads, . are utt-erly vo4d of.fpi.rituallight in thei,r ,hearts \ Ifyeknow· your cafe, ye would cry out, 0 darknei~;! darknefs! 'daJ k– .nefs ·making way for tlre blackn·efs ofdarknefr for ever! l \he face·c:overi'llg is upon you already, as con.demne.d perfons ; fo near a-re ye to everlafhog dttrkoefs. It is n~t oniy Jefus Chrit1 who can flop the execution, p~all the oapkin off the ~ face of the condemned ma,JefaCl:or, and put a pardon ir his hand; lfa . xxv , 7• /lnd he. rtJJiil dejlroyi11 this mountain,.the faceofthecoveringcajlo""v'era/1 people, i e . theface · cover .. ingcai1 over;the condemned, as in Ha77wn'scf~ fe , Eflh , vii. 8. As th( 'VHJrd rweht out of the kinJ(s mouth ,· the)i~iJO·OereCJ: Haman's face. Lajtly, The chains of darknefs ye are bound \Vi th in tbe pr.ifon of your depraved Oate, !fa . lxi. r firs you· to be cafi into tbe 'burninl! fier-y furnace. Ah miferable men •. ,, Sometimes their confciences fiir within them, and t~ey be ... gin to think of amending their ways. But 6las:! they are in chains, they cannot do it. They are chained by th.e heart-;: their lufl:s cleave fo fall: to them, that they cannot, na·y; t-hey will not, fhake them off. Thus you fee· what afli"nity. the.te is betwixt an unregenerate llate.,.' and the ftate·' of .the &. l ' damned,
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