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DISC.'v.I
THE WRATH
OF
THE
LAMB.
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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
justice
and 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
convinced
often,
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