/ Head n. · in t'heir Wiaednefi. . 28s of their coat., and then they appear :in their native dtefs; -it unveils them ,- and, takes off their mr:Lk. Thet e ;.ue"qqne 'ia the Otherwotld, who pretend to be better than-~hey ~re really are. Depraved n~ture aCls i~ the ·regions of h_of~·qr, unal· layed and clifguifed. [;ajl/y, They are driven ·away from all me'ans' 'of grac~: and are let beyond the line, quite out of all profpect of mercy. There is no ·mo,re an ~-pportuni• ty to l)uy oil for t~e lamp; it is gone out at d~ath, and' caa ~ never be lighted again. There may be offers-of mercy and peace made after they m gone~ but they are to others, not to them : there arc no fuch offers in the .place to whick they.are driven ; thefe offers are only made in that place , from which dt1ey are driven awayi ' . LASTI.Y, In what refpeCt m~y they be: faid to be drivea ~way in their rwicked11ej1 ?. !lnf ( 1.) In refpeelof their be– ing driven away in their finful uoconverted ftate. Having lived enemies to God, they die in a fi;He of enmity to him: for none are brought in10 the ' eternal Rate of confummate happinefs , but by the way of the fiate of grace, or begu• recovery in thi! life . The child that is dead in the womb,. is born dead, and is _call out of the worn\.> into the grave·; !o he who ill dead, while he liveth, or is fpiritually dead, is ' cafi forth of the womb of time, in the fame fiate of death, i_nto the pit of utter mifer,Y. 0 rniferable death, to die in the gall oi bitternefs and bond of iniquity! it had been.in.. compara_bly better for fuch as die thus, that t-hey had bever heen born. ( 2.) lo regard they die finoiog, aClffig wicked.. Jy againit God , in ·contr adiflion to the divine law: for they ~ao do no1hing but fjn .whrle they Jive. So death tak~s them in the V<' I y ~a of finning; wiolently draws them from the embraces of the,ir JAts, and drives them away to the tribur:al to receive their feotence. l1 is a r'emarkable ex– preffion, Joh ~xxvi - 1 4• They tfif in ;,outi: the marginal reading is . .their foul dieth in )•o-uth; their ]ufls being lively 1 their defi •es vigorom, aP.d expecta tions big, as is common' in ycuth. And their life iJ am~ng the unclean: or, avd the t cn.pany (or herd) r,;f thtm dieth a·mo;cg the •,odomit es, i. ~. is taken away in the heat of thei r fir "' nd wickedoefs, as rhe SGtlomitn were, Grn . xix. Luke vii ~8, 29 , ( 3· ) Jo ;,1~; much as the~ are orive:o away, ioaded with the guilt,of 1111 t heit :ins: t~ls is th~ wiDding·fheet 1 that jhn/J lie down 'With tbe.m
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