270 Exhortation to Believing enforced. P1a143o, 2. Comparatively in reference unto the Vengeance due to the breach of the Lair, 2 Cor. 2. 16. We are in the preaching of forgiveness by Chrifi, unto them that perifb, a favour of death unto death, a deep death, a fore Condemnation, fo Heb. 10. 2 9. Of hcry much firer punishment fuppofi ye he ß1a11 be thought worthy : Sorer than ever was threatned by the Law, or inflicted for the breachof it ; not as to the Kind ofpu- nifhment, but as to the degrees of it; Hence aril th the ad- dition of many ftripes. 3. Ey the way cf Admiration at the unexprefrblenEf, and unavoidablenefs of the punishment due unto fuch ruiners. Heb. 2. 3. how ¡ail we Escape if we negleei fo great f Ivation ? Surely there is no way for men to escape, they (hall unavoid- ably perish who regled T great falvation. So the Holy Ghofi layes, i Pet. q.. 1 1. What ¡hall be the end of them that obey not the Gfpel ? What underfanding can reach to an apprehenfìon of their tniferable and wofull condition ? None can, faith the Holy Ghoft ; nor can it be fpoken to their capacity ; ah what (hall their end be ? There remains nothing, but a certain fearfuV looking for of Judgement, and fiery indignation that 'hall confùme the' Adverfaries, Heb. 10. 27. A certain fearfull ex- peóation ofaftonifhable things that cannot be comprehended. Exhortati- And thefe arc the Enforcement! of the Exhortation in hand, on to Be- which I (hall infili upon. On thefe foundations, on the con- lieving en-fideration of thefe Principles, let us now a little conferre to- forced. gether, with the words of Truth and Sobriety. I fpeak to fuch poor fouls, as having deceived themlees, or negleL`fed ut- terly their Eternal Condition, are not as yet really, and in Truth made partakers of this f rgivenef. Your prefr;nt (fate is fad, and deplorable. There is nothing but the woluil uncer- tain..y of a dying life between you and Eternal ruine. That perfwafion you have of forgivenefs, is Good for nothingbut to harden you, and defiroy you. It is not the Forgivinefs that is with God. Nor have you taken it up on Gofpel grounds or Evidences. You have Pollenpainted beads, and take your felves to be lawful] poffefíors of Pearls and Jewels. As you are then any way concerned in your own Eternal Condition, which
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