DISC.'v.I THE WRATH OF THE LAMB. 247 lest the patience of a God be finished, lest the abused love of a saviour turn into fury, and nothing remains for me but unavoidable destruction. 6. It is a sentence of divine wrath, which shall be at- tended with the fullest conviction of sinners, and self- condemnation in their own consciences. This-doubles the sensations of divine wrath, and enhances the anguish of the criminal to a high degree. This final unbelief, and rejection .of grace, is a sin against so much light, and so much love, that, however men cheat their consciences now, and charm them into silence, yet, at the last great day, their own consciences shall be on the side- of the judge, when he pronounces wrath and damnation upon them, what infinite terrors tvill shake the soul when there is not one of its own thoughts can speak peace within? When all its own in- ward powers shall echo to the sentence of the judge,. and acknowledge the justiceand equity of it for ever ? Oh,, who can express the agonies of pain and torture, when the impenitent sinner shall be awakened into such reflections as these? I was placed in a land of light and knowledge; the light of the gospel of grace shone all round me; but I winked my eyes against the light,. and now I auí plunged into utter and eternal darkness., I was convincedoften, that I was a sinner, and in danger of death and hell; I was convinced of the truth of the gos- pel, and the all-sufficiency of the salvation of Christ, but I loved the vanities of this life ; I followed the ap- petites of the flesh, and the delusive charms.of a tempt- ing world, I delayed to answer to the voice of provi- dençe, and the voice of Mercy; the voice of the gospel inviting me to this salvation, and the voice of, Christ re- quiring me to be saved.. My own: heart condemns me with ten thousand reproaches : How righteous is God in. his indignation ! How just is the resentment of the Lamb of God in this 'day of his wrath! what clear, and convincing, and dreadful equity attends the sentence of my condemnation, and doubles the anguish of my soul !" 7. It is such wrath as shall be executed immediately and eternally, without one hour of reprieve, and without . the least hope of mercy, and that through all the ages to come: For though Jesus is " the Mediator between God and man," to reconcile those ito God, who have
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