42S THE WRATH OF THE LAME. tO/SC. Zr. broken his law, there is no Mediator appointed to re- concile those sinners to Christ, when they have finally resisted the grace of his gospel. There is no blood nor death that can atone for the final rejection of the blood of this dying Saviour. If we resist Jesus Christ the Lord, and his atonement, and his sacrifice, his gospel, and his salvation, there remains no more atonement for us. Let us consider each of these circumstances apart, and dwell a little on these terrors, that our hearts maybe affected with them. 1. This wrath shall be executed immediately, for the time of reprieve is come to an end. Here divine wisdom and justice have set the limits ofdivine patience, and they reach no further. 2. It is wrath that shall be executed without mercy, because the day and hour of mercy is for ever finished. That belongs only to this life. The day of grace is gone for ever: " He that once made them, will now have no mercy upon them, and he that formed them, Will shew them no favour," Is. xxvii. 11. The very mercy of the Mediator, the compassion of the Lamb of God, is turn- ed into wrath and fury. The Lamb himself has put on the form of a lion, and there is no redeemer or advocate to speak a word for them, who have finally rejected Je- sus, the only mediator, worn out the age of his pity, and provoked his wrath, as well as his Father's. S. It is wrath without end, for their souls are immor- tal, their bodies are raised to an immortal state, and their whole nature being sinful, and miserable, and immortal,. they must endure a wretched and miserable immortality. This is the representation of the book' of God, even of the New Testament, and I have no commission from God, either to soften these words of terror, or to shorten the term of their misery. REMARKS ON THIS DISCOURSE. Remark I. "What.a wretched mistake is it, to ima- gine the great God is nothing else but mercy, and Jesus Christ is nothing elsebut love and salvation." It is true, God has more mercy than we can imagine; his love is boundless in many of its exercises, and Jesus his Son, who is the image of the Father, is the fairest image of his love and grace. His compassionshave "heights, and depths, and lengths, and breadths in them, that pass all our
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