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THE WRATH
OF
THE
LAMB.
423
zing mercy,
astonishing grace; and the despisers
of it
will
deserve
to
,perish with
double destruction,
for they wink
their
eyes
against clearer
light, and
reject the
offers
of
more abounding
love.
2.
It
is
wrath
that
is
awakened
by
the most precious
and
most expensive methods
of
salvation
slighted
and
under-
valued..
Well
may
God
say
to
christian nations, especi-
ally to
Great
Britain,
who sits
under
the daily
sound
of
this
gospel
:
"
What
could
I
have done
more for
you
than
I
have
done
?
Is.
v.
4.
"
I
have sent my own Son,
the
Son
of
my bosom,
the
Son
of
my
eternal
love, to
take
flesh
and blood upon
him,
that
he
might,
be able to
die
in
your
stead, who were guilty rebels,
and
deserved to
die
:
I
have given huh up to the
insults
and
injuries
of
men, to the
temptations,
the
buffetings
and
rage
of
devils,
to the stroke
of
the sword
of
my
justice,
to
the cursed death
of
the cross
for
you
;
here
is
heaven
and
salvation
pur-
chased for man
with
the
dearest
and most valuable
life
in
all the creation, with the richest blood
that
ever
ran in
the
veins
of
a
creature,
with
the
life and
blood
of
the
°Son
of
God,
and
yet
you refused to receive
and
accept of
this
salvation procured
at
so
immense a
price.
I
called you
to
partake of
this
invaluable
blessing freely,
without
mo-
ney,
and without
price,
and
yet
you slighted all
these
offers
of mercy;
what remains
but that
my
wrath should
kindle against
you
in the
hottest
degree, and
fill
your
souls
with
exquisite anguish and
misery
?
You
have
re-
fused to
accept of
a covenant
which was sealed
with
the
blood of
my
own Son, which was
confirmed
by
the mirar
culous
operations
of
my
own
Spirit;
you
have
valued
your
sinful pleasures,
and the
trifles
of
this
vain
world,
above the blood
of
my Son,
and
the
life
of your
souls
:
It
is
divinely
proper,
that
divine
vengeance should
be
your portion,
who
have rejected such rich
treasures
aPf
divine
love."
Heb.
x.
28
-30.
He
that
despised
Mo-
ses's
law, died
without
mercy
under
two
or three
wit-
nesses;
of
how
much
sorer
punishment,
suppose
ye,
shall
he
be
thought
worthy,
who
hath
trodden
underfoot
the
Son
of
God,
and
hath
counted the
blood
of
the
cove+
na
t, wherewith
he
was sanctzfied
an
unholy
thing,
and
bath
done
despite
.unto
the
Spirit
of
grace? For
we
know
him
that
hath
said,
vengeance
belongeth
unto
me,
I
will
-repay,
saith
the
Lord.
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