390 Ï The Vfè of the Lam. Marke i6. r6 :Chron.3 447 -leb 4.2,3 z Cor. 2:16 lohn 3.36 Heb.ro 28, 2,9 a I'hef. r.8 out his eyes: and yet this is the manner of Chr.ifts com- ming,to bring a Croffe, and a Sword with him,to hew offour lufis (which are our earthly members) & to cru- ci ie us unto the world. ut whit then ? Mua nothing be preached but dam- nation and Hell to men ? God forbid. We have com- miiIi,an to preach nothing but Chrift and life in him ; and therefore we never preach the Law, but with reference and manuduc_ ion unto him. The truth is, intentionally we preach nothing but falvation ; we come with no other intentió but that every man who heares us might beleeve and be faved we have our power onely for edification, and not for deftruâtion : but conditionally we preach Salvation and Damnation,He that beleeveth, fhall be faved ; he that beleeveth not, ßlall be damned ; that is the funame of our Commiffion. But it is further very obfervable in that place, that preaching of the Gofpell is preaching both of Salvation and of Damnation upon the leverall conditions.So thcn,when we preach the Law, we preach Salvation to them that feare it : (as the Lord (hewed mercy to Joffah becaufe his heart trembled, and humbled it felfe at his Law) and when we preach the Gof ell , we preach damnation to them that defpife it, How 'hall we efcape, if we ncgletlfo great falvation ? The Got-- pen is falvation of it felfe, but he that neglects falvation is the more certaine to perilh, and that with a double deftruaion, `Death unto Death ; to that Wrath of God which abideth upon him before, will come a forer con - demnation, by trampling under foot the blood ofthe Covenant, and not obeying the Cofpell ofour Lord Iefus Cbrif Here then are tl'a rules to be obferv'd,Firff,by the mi- niflers of the Word, that they fo preach the Law,as that it may flill appeare to be an appendant unto the Gofpell,and not fuffer the miniftry to be evill fpoken'of by men who watch for advantages.' ; We mutt endeavour fo to ma- nage.
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