240 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. ly l Doth he not bring a double destruction upon him- self ; first, of deserving death by his crimes, and then by refusing the good way of delivery tendered to him l I confess it often occurs that men come to inquire after these terms of peace, which, when they are revealed they like them not, but, with the young man in the Gospel, go away sorrowful. The cursed wickedness and misery of such a condition shall be spoken to after- wards. At present I speak to those who never yet at- tended in sincerity to these terms, nor seriously in- quired after them. Think what you please of your con- dition ; choose whether you will think of it or not; pass your time regardless of your present and future state; yet indeed you lie under the sentence of a bitter, shameful and everlasting death. You have made light of it in the midst of all your jollity, ever since you came into this world; but you are in the hand of Him who can, in the twinkling of an eye, destroy both soul and body in hell-fire. In this your condition, men are sent on purpose to let you know that there are terms of peace, that there is yet a way of escape for you ; and that you may not fail of salvation, they tell you that God, who cannot lie, hath commanded them to tell you so. If you question the truth of what they say, they are ready to produce their warrant under God's own hand and seal; here then is no room for excuses. Cer- tainly, if you have any care of your eternal state, if you have any drop of tender blood running in your veins towards your own souls, if you have any rational considerations dwelling in your minds, if all be'not de- faced and obliterated through the power of lust and love of sin, you cannot but consider yourselves un- speakably concerned in this, proposal. But now, if you give up yourselves to the power of unbelief, the will of Satan, the love, of your lusts, and this present world so as to take no notice of this message fromGod, nor
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