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THE WRATH
OF
THE
LAMB.
425
miracles and
prophecies? Were
you
not
told,
that
I
was; exalted,
after
my sufferings,
to the
right
-hand
of
God,
on
purpose to
"
bestow
repentance and
remission
of
sins
?
".
Acts
v.
31..
And
were
you
not
informed
also,
that
I
had
a
"rod
of
iron"
given
me,
to dash rebels
to
death
?
Ps.
ii.
9.
What
is
the reason
you
never
came
to
me,
or submitted
to
my
government,
or accepted
of
my
grace
?
Did
you
never
hear of
the
threatenings
that
stood, like drawn
swords,
against
those
who wilfully
re-
fuse this
mercy?
Did
you
think
these were mere
bug-
bears, mere sounding
words, to
frighten children
with,
and
harmless
thunder,
that
would
never blast
you?
Did
you think
these
flashes
of
wrath,
in my
word,
were
such
sort
of
lightnings
as
you
might
safely
play
with,
and
flame
that
would never
burn? What
punishments,
think
you, do
you
deserve, first,
for the abuse
of
my
authority,
and
then
for
the
wilful
and obstinate refusal
of
my
grace? Is
it
not
divinely
fit
and
proper
my
wrath
should
'awake against such heinous criminals?
Where
is
any pro-
per
object for
my
resentment, if
you
arenot
made objects
of
it?
Take
them, angels, bind them
hand and
foot,
and
cast them into
outer darkness
:
Let
them
be
thrown
headlong into
the prison
of
hell, where fire
and brim-
stone
burn
unquenchably,
where light,
and
peace,
and
hope
can never
come.
Let
them
be
crpshed
with
the
rod of
iron, which the
Father
bath
put
into
my
hands,
as
the
first
minister
of
his
kingdom,
as
the
avenger
of
his
despised grace
?"
4.
It
is
a wrath
that
is
excited
by
a
final
and
utter re-
jection
of
the last proposals
of
divine
love. 'When
mercy
was
offered to men by
the
blessed.
God
at
first,
the dis-
coveries were
móre
dark
and imperfect,
there
were
still
further.
discoveries to be made
in following
ages:
Therefore
the
crime and
guilt of
sinners,
in
those former
days; was
much
less
than the crime
and guilt
of
those
who
reject
this
last proposal
of
mercy.
There
is
no
fur-
ther
edition
of
the covenant
of
grace, for those
who
re-
fuse this
offer.
Those
who
neglect Christ,
as he
is
set
forth
in
the
gospel,
to
be
a sacrifice for
sin,
"
there re-
mains no
more sacrifice for
them,
but
a certain fearful
expectation
of
vengeance,
and
fiery
indignation,
which
shall consume
the
adversary," Heb
.x:26,
27,
All
the
former dispensations
of
grace are contained