dame ofGod in hearing his W o R. D. had not been fo great, your fin had not been fo great, and your punithrnent had not been fo great. In cillat.10.14,I5. where fpea- king of thole that did enjoy the Word, and yet did not fanaifie Gods Name in it. Whofoever that not receive you (faith Chrift to his Difciples ) nor bear your word r , whenye depart out ofthat houfe or City, fbak,e of the duff of your feet : Verily 'fay unto you it fhal be more tolerable for the LandofSodom and go7:120- rah in the dayof judgment, than for that C;ty. it is a moft dreadful Scripture : their very duff mutt be fhaken off in tOken of indignation, and it Thal be more eafie for the Landof Sodom andGornorah in the day of Judgment, than for that place. You would be very loch to be in a worfe condition than Sodom and Gomorah that was coniumed by fire from Heaven,,And nowfuf- fer the vengeance of eternal fre, Jude 7. Certainly they than DOE be fodeep in judgments, as thole that live under the Miniftry of the word, and fanaifie not the Name of God in it. Your fin is of a deeper dye than the fin of the Heathens, yea, and in fome refpeas,th an the fin of the Devils, they never had the wordof the Gofpel fent to be preached to them : and therefore this will ag- gravate your fin, not only beyondHeathens, but beyondDevils. Look to it then, that Gods Name be fanctified in the hearing of his word. 3. Thirdly, Know, that fomuch as the word is rejeaed, Jefus Chrift is rejetted; Luke to. 16. He that defpifeth you,defpifetb me ; and be that defpifeth me, defpifeth him thatfent me. 4rir- Chrift himfelf that is rejectedwhen the word is rejected : 'thou haft not to do withman fomuch as with Jefus Chrift in the hea- ringof the Word , and the power of Jefus Chrift intoput forth either to do thee good by the word, or to avenge thy neglect of the word : Therefore in Waal,. 28. 18,19. when Chrift fends forth his Difciples to preach, he makes this preface, .Allporter is given untome in el-leavenand 'Earth : Choye therfore and teach: As ifhe fhould lay, I have received al power inHeaven and Earl; through the power I received, I fend you to preach, and Ple be with you to the end of the world : that is, All power in Hea- ven and Earth, than go along with you to aflift,y,(cur Miniftry, either for the good of thofe that than embrace it, or for the mi- fery of thofe that Thal rt)ed it ; fo that whofoever ftands out a- V gainft 201
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