ON HOSEA XIV.- VERSE 9. 305 threatening of wrath which we have despised, shall accompany us unto the tribunal of Christ, to testify against us, and into the fire of hell, to upbraid us with our own perdition ! Oh the doleful condition of impenitent sinners ! If they have hot the word, they perish for the want ; and if they have it, they perish doubly for the contempt of it. O that men would consider the terror of the Lord, and be persuaded ! and that they would learn so much wisdom, as not to arm the very mercy of God against themselves. A bridge is made to give us a safe passage over a dan- gerous river, but he who stumbles on the bridge, is in danger to fall into the river. The word is given as a means to carry us over hell unto heaven ; but he who stumbles and quarrels at this means, shall fall in thither, from whence otherwise he had been delivered by it. London: Stereotyped by W. CLOW ES, Stamford Street.
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