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`loammeliwommanAmma

Go_lel

krraßiorz.

137

you do not

;

if

you

do

not, God

is

peremptory

;

if

you

come

in and

imbrace the

Gofpel,

you

(hall

be

Paved

;

but

if

you

do

not,

the

Ax

is

laid unto

your root

to cut

you

down

:

the

Gofpel

makes

quick

work

with

you,

as

Paul

fays

in

z

Cor.

z.

14.

it

is

fo

ftrong

that

it

kills. with

the

very

favour

of

it

,

it

has fuch

a

favour

as

it can kill

with the

very

finell

of

it

;

To

him

that

believes

it

is

the

favour

of

life

unto

life

;

but

to

him

that

believes

not,it

is

the

favour of

death

unto

death,

Ad.

17.3o.

In

the times

of

Ignorance

God winkled,when men

under-.

ftood not

what the

evil

of

fin

was

;

but

now

he

commands

all

men

to

repent

:

before

you

heard the dreadful

evil

and

ma-

lignity that

is

in

fin,

God

might wink at you

;

but now

he

commands

you

all,

having

heard

fo

many Sermons

of

the e-

vil

nature of

fin,

to

repent,

or

elfe

God

will

be

very quick

with

you,

Heb.4..

r

2.

an

excellent place, The Word

of

God is

gttick,and powerful

;

but what

word

is

it

?

mark,

in

the

fecond

verfe,

Vnto

us, fays

he,

was the

Go#el

preached

:

It

was

the

Word

of

the

Gofpel

,

and

verfe

8.

If

refus

had

given

therm

ref

:

It

is

that

reft fpoken

in

the Gofpel

:

and

mark what

he

fays in

the beginning

;

Let

us

therefore

fear,

lefi

a Pro-

mife

being left

of entring

into

reft,

any

of

you

fhould

feem

to

come

f

port

of

it

:

Let

us

therefore

fear, for

the

Word

of

God

is

fwift, and will

make quick difpatch

:

No

Sermons

make

fuch quick

difpatch

as

.Sermons

of

the Gofpel

;

fear left

a-

ny

feem

to

come

fhort

:

let

us

fear

left

any of

us

fhould

go

on

in

any way that

makes it

feem

to appear

we

rejeef the

Gofpel.

It

is

very obfervable what

we find

in

Gods

deal-

ings

with Ifrael of

old

;

we

never find

God

fwearing againft

them,

till

they

rejec`ed the Land

of

Canaan

,

and

preferr'd

Egypt

before

it

;

when the

Spies

were

fent

forth to

fearch

the

Land,

and

brought

force

of

the

Grapes

of

ir,

Numb.

13.14.

Chapters,

and

told

them what

an

excellent

fruitful

Land

it

was;

but

becaufe

of

force difficulty

in

the

getting

of

it, they

fell

a

murmuring

;

then

God

took

up a folemn

Oath they

lhould

not

enter into

it, though they

had provoked him

ten times, yea

forty

years

in

the

Wildernefs

,

yet

God

never

fware againft them

till

that

time

:

That

foul

is

in

a

fad

con

-

dition,that

God fhallfwear

in

his

wrath it(hall

not

enter

irno

his

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