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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
may
be
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
of
divine
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
else
but
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 compassions
have
"heights,
and depths,
and
lengths,
and breadths
in them,
that
pass all
our