3 3 2 Chap. 3 3. An Expofition upon the Book, of J o B. . Verf, t 8 This is the great end'ofpreaching the Gofpel, the end alfo of prefling the terrors of theLaw ; bothhave thisaime to keepman fromperithing.When man is prefl to holineife,and whenhe is re- prefl from the wayes of fin, 'tis that hemay not perilh for ever. God Bath fet up many ordinances, he bath imployed manyinflru- rieats to adminifler them , many thoufands goe up and downe preaching to the world,and crying out to the Eons of men, repent and beleeve,beleeveand repent; and why allthis cry,but to keep fouls from the pit,and their life from perifhing by the fword ? The Apoflle Jude exhorts toPavepome with fear, and ofothers to have cornpafo1, that is,.terrine forne that you may fave them, makethem afraid that they maynot be damned; fave them with fear, plucking them as it wereout ofthe fire. Sinners are tun- inginto the fire,and do not perceive it ; they are tumbling down ro hell and confider it not ; they mull be pulled outof the fire, elfe they will burn init for ever. The great bufineffe of the Gof pell is CO pull fouls like firebrands outof the burning. Fourthly,aaote. They who turn from their evillpurpofes and thepride oftheir hearts, efcape wrath, thepit, and the fword, The wages of fin is death, and well are they that efcape, that rniffe fuck wages. Ifa firmer turne from his purpofe,fromhis fin . way, if his pride be fubdued andhe emptiedof himfelf, then his fou! is kept from ele/trsoThon,and his life from per; f ling by the 3enrd: JOB,
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