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they
not
in the
fittest company
to
teach
them pride,
and
rage,
resentment and
malice, and the
most unfit
to
teach
them
humility,
repentance, and obedience
to
God
?
And
when they have
perversely sinned away
all
the means
of
grace
in this
life,
is
it
reasonable
to imagine;
that God
will
powerfully:soften
their hearts
by his sovereign
grace,
since he
has .never given the
least hint
or
instance
of it
in
all
the discoveries
made
in
the
bible
?
And has
it
not
been
often
one way
of
God's punishing
sinners here
in
this
world, by
letting
them
g
their
o
on in
iniquity and
mad-
ness
to.
the end
?
And!
why
may
not
the wisdom
and
justice of God
see
it
fit
to
treat
sinners, who have
been
incorrigible
in
this
life, by
the
same
method
in
the
world-
to
come
?
Argument IV. The natural
effects
and consequences
of
sin living in the
soul,
are
misery
and
torment
so.long'as
the
soul
lives,
that
is,
for ever.
Sin,
though
it
be a
moral
evil,
.
as
it
is
committed against God, yet
it:is
such an
enemy
to
the
nature of
man,
that
where
it has established
its
ha-
bit
and temper
in
the
soul,
it
naturally prepares
constant
anguish
of
conscience and
certain misery.:
A wicked
spirit
all
over averse to
God
and
goodness, gone
from
this
world
and
all
the soothing or
busy
amusements
of
it,
intense
in its desires
of
happiness,
and yet a stranger
to,
all
that
can make
it
truly
happy,
and
at
the
same
time
shut out
by
God's righteous judgment,
from
all
the means
and
hopes of grace, must needs
be
miserable,
and
has
prepared a
state
of
endless
misery
for
itself,
becauseits
nature
and
duration
are immortal.'
An unholy
creature
who loves
not God,
and
cannot
delight
in
things
holy
and
heavenly,
but
derives
its
chief
joy
from sinful
plea-
sures, can
never
taste of
felicity,
can never relish the
satisfactions
that
come-,from
the
knowledge
and
love,
and
the enjoyment
of God
;
and when
it
is
torn
away,
and banished from
all
the
sensible
amusements
of
this
life,
it
must and
will
be
a
wretched
creature
in
the world
of
spirits, and
that
by
the
very
course
of nature
:
And
God
cannot
be obliged to
change the
established course
of
nature
to relieve this misery
which
the sinner had wil-
fully
brought
on
himself
;
nor
can
God
make
him
happy
without
giving him a
new
temper
Of
holiness, which he is
not
obliged to do
by
any
perfection of
his
nature or
any
promise
of
grace.
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