126 Tug WORLD TO COME. 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. I. This wrath shall be executed immediately, for the time of reprieve is come to an end. Here divine wisdom and jus- tice have set the limits of divine patience, and they reach no further. 2. It is wrath that shall be executed without mercy, becau se 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 turned 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 Jesus, the only media- tor, worn -out the age of his pity, and provoked his wrath, as well as his Father's. 3. It is wrath without end, for their souls are immortal, their bodies are raised to an immortal state, and their whole na- ture being sinful and miserable, and immortal, they must endure a wretched and miserable immortality. This is the representa- tion 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. I. " What a wretched mistake is it, to imagine 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 knowledge; Eph. iii. 18. But God is an universal sovereign, a wise and righteous governor : There is majesty with him, `as well as grace ; and Jesus is Lord of lords, and King of kings; He bears the image of his Father's justice, as well as of his Fa- ther's love; otherwise he could not be the full brightness of his glory, nor the express image of his person; Neb. And besides, the Father !lath armed 'him with powers of divine vengeance, as well as with powers of mercy and salvation. Ps. ii. 9. He has put the rod of iron into his hands, to dash the nations like a potter's vessel. Rev. ii. 27. and xix. 15. He is the elect and precious cornerstone laid in Zion; I' Pet, ii. 6. But`lie
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