.w.. -imo Ver.4. Exhortation to Believing enforced. 273 but your day ; it may perhaps be night with you, when it is day with the re(} of the World. Your Sun may go down at Moon ; And God may fwear that you (hall not enter into his Refs. Ifyou are then refolved to continue in your prefent conditi- on, I have no more to fay unto you. I am pure from your blood, in that I have declared unto you the countcl of God in this thing, and fo I mull leave you to a naked Tryal between the Great God and your Souls at the left day ; poor Creatures, I even tremble to think, how he will tear you in pieces, when there (hall Le none to deliver. Methinks I fee your poor de- flitutf. forlorn fouls, forfaken of !tilts, lins, world, friends, An- gels, Men, Trembling before the Throneof God, full of horror,, and fearful' expeftation of the dreadful' fentence. Oh that I cou'd mourn over you, whiled you are jy'ned to all the living, whileti there is yet hope, oh that in this your day, you knew the things of your peace. But nàw if you (hail fay, Niy, but we will (eh the Lord tr hile!i he may be found, we will draw nigh unto him before he caufe darknefs; then confider, I pray, 4, What Jcfhua told the children of Iliael, when they put themfelves upon fuch a Refolutiou, and cryed out, We will firve the Lord our God, chap. 24. v. 19. Ye cannot ferve the Lord, for he is an hàly' God, a jealous God, he will Not forgive your tranfgrefridns, nor your fns. Go to him upon your own Account, and in your own (ltength, with your own be(1 endeavours and dutyes, you will finde him too great, and too holy for you to deal withal'. Yoa will obtain neither Acceptance of your perfons,, nor Pardon of your fins. But you will fay, this is heavy tidings. If you fir hill. you perith, and if you rife to be doing, it will not be better ; is there no hope kft for our Souls ? mutt we pine away under our fins and the wrath of God for ever ? God forbid. There are yet other direElions remaining to guide you out of there entanglements. Where- fore, 5. Ponder ferioufly on what bath been fpoken of this way of approaching unto God. Confider it in its own nature, as to all the ends and purpofes for which it is propofedofGod : Confider, whether you Approve of it or no ; do you judge it a way fuited N n and .1
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