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of
death
and
condemnation
;
therefore look
to
it,
as
oft
as
you
come
unworthily to the
Sacrament, you have
fo
many
Seals
of
death
and condemnation fet
upon
your
fouls
:
Take
heed
you
do
not
come
to
take
another
Seal
of
death
;
'tis
much
to
be
fear-
ed
many
in
this
place come
to take
the
feal
of
eternal death
upon
their
fouls
:
but thofe
that
come
worthily,
though admini-
ftrations
be
not
in
that
due
order
as
they
fhould,
yet
God
may be
prefent with
his
own
Ordinance to
give
them comfort from
it,
and
help
their
Evidences by
ir,
I
muff conclude
this
:
thofe
that
content themfelveswith
flight
Evidences about this
great
work,
difhonour
the
grace
of God
:
you would
have
us
preach
of
mer-
cy,
and
indeed it
is
a bleffed
Argument
which
our
fouls
delight
much
to
be
preaching of, betaute
we
find fo
much fweetnefs
in
it,
and
for
which
our
fouls
(hall expatiate themfelves
in
glorify-
ing
God
to all
eternity
;
but we
are withal
jealous
of your
dif-
honouring
of
God
in this
mercy,
and
therefore
it
is
that
we
la-
bour
fo
with you,
after the
laying open
of
this
mercy,
that you
may
not
abufe
it
:
for certainly my
Brethren,
there
is
nothing in
the
world
God
takes
to
heart more,
than the
difhonour
tha
is
done
to
his
pardoning
mercy
;
and
nothing more
aggravates
the
fin
of People
than
to
have flight thoughts
of
this
greas
work.
t
Seventhly, This
is
a
great
di,
f
honor to Gods
pardoning
mercy,
for
men
to
pit
off
the
fee6ing
of it
to
the worfi times
that
pofible
can
be;
Is
it
not the
ordinary
way
of
molt
people, to
put
off
the
feeking,
of
the grace
and
favour
of
God, Pardon
of
fin,
and
Reconcili-
ation, till the
time
of
ficknefs, and
the
time
of
death
?
they
go
on
ally
heir
life
-time
in
finning
againft
God
;
but when they
are
lying
upon
their
fick
-beds and
death-beds,
Lord have mercy
upon me, pardon
me,
forgive me,
a
wicked
wretch
that
I
have
been
;
thefe kind
of
words
we
hear
from
men
at
that time
:
O
that
God
would forgive and pardon
fuch
and
fuch fins,
and
then perhaps
they
will
tell
fome
particular
fins
if
they
-think
they (hail
die,
they will
open
themfelves to
the
Minifter,
or
to
fume
faithful
N
ighbour,
in
the difclofing
of
their particular
fins, and befeèch
them
to pray to
God
for mercy.
;
but
if
they
have
any hopes to
efcape,
they will
keep
them
in
,
and
be
loth
to
rip
open the
fins
of
their
lives
:
This
I
fay, for
à"nyto put
off
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