worldly enjoyments shake hands with thee: Thy Sins will not die with thee, 2 Cor. v. 10. Rev. xx. 12.; as a prisoner's other debts will, but they will to judgment with thee, there to be thy accusers; and they will to hell with thee, there to be thy tormentors. Better to have so many fiends and furies about thee, than thy fans to fall upon thee and fasten on thee. O the work that there will make thee! O lock over thy debts in time, how much thou art in the books of every one of God's laws; how is every one of God's commandments ready to arref chee, and seize thee by the throat, for the innumerable bonds it hath upon thee? What wilt thou do then, when they shall all together come in against thee ? Hold open the eyes of conscience to confider this, that thou mayest despair of thyself, and be driven to Chrift, and “Aly for $refuge to lay hold of the hope that is {et before " thee,” Heb. vi. 18.

V. “ Thy raging luftę do miserably enslave “ thee."

While unconverted thou art a very fervant of fin, it reigns over thee, and holds thee under its dominion, till thou art brought within the bonds of God's covenant, John viii. 34, 36. Titus iii. 3. Rom. vi. 12. 14. and vi. 16. 17. Now there is not such another tyrant as fin: O the filthy and fearful work that it doth engage its servants in ! Would it not pierce a man's heart to see a company of poor creatures drudging and toiling, only to heap up faggots to burn themselves! Why this is the conftant employment of all fin's drudges : Even while they bless themselves in their unrighteous gains, while they fing and swill in pleasures, they are but treasuring up wrath and vengeance for their eternal burning; they are but laying in pow, der and bullet, and adding to the pile of Tophet, and Ainging in oil to make the flame

rage the fiercer. Who would serve such a matter, whose work is drudgery, and whose wages is death ? Rom. vi. 23.

What a woful spectacle was the poor wretch who was possessed with the legion! Would it not have grieved thy heart to have seen him among the tombs cutting and wounding himself? Mark v. 5. This is thy case, such is thy work, every stroke is a thrust at thy heart, 1 Tim. vi. 10. Conscience indeed is now asleep, but when death and judgement shall bring thee toʻthy senses, then wilt thou feel the raging smart and anguish of every wound.

VI." The furnace of eternal vengeance is heated ready for thee,” 'lja. xxx. 33. Hell and destruction open their mouths upon thee, “they

gape and groan for thee,” chap. v. 14. ; waiting as it were with a greedy eye, as thou standest on the brink, when thou wilt drop in, If the wrath of man be “as the roaring of a lion," Prov. XX. 2. more heavy than the sand," chap. xxvii. 3.; what is the wrath of the infinite God? If the burning furnace, heated in Nebuchadnezzar's fiery rage, when he commanded it to be made yet

seven times hotter, was fo fierce as to burn up even those that drew near it to throw the three children in, Dan. iii. 19. 22.; how hot is that burning oven of the Almighty's fury! Mal. iv. I. surely this is seventy times seven more fierce.“ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong “ in the day that I shall deal with thee, faith the “ Lord of Hcits?” Ezek. xxii. 14. " Canit thou “abide everlasting burnings? Canst thou dwell “ with consuming fire?" 1ja. xxxiii, 14.

O finner! ftop here and consider; if thou art a man, and not a senseless block, confider; bethink thyself where thou ftandeft; why upon the very brink of this furnace. “ As the Lord livech, and

as thy soul liveth, there is but one ftep between " thee and it,” i Sam. XX. 3. Thou knoweft not, when thou lieft down, but thou mayest be in it before the morning : Thou knoweft not when thou riseft, but thou mayest drop in before night. Dareft thou make light of this ? Wilt thou go on in such a dreadful condition as if nothing ailed thee? If thou putteft it off, and sayest,

« This doth not s belong to thee :" look again over the foregoing chapter, and tell me the truth; are none of thele black marks found upon

thee? Do not blind thine eyes; do not deceive thyself; see thy misery whilst thou mayeft prevent it. Think what it is to be a vile out-cast, a damned reprobate, a vesiel of wrath, into which the Lord will pour out his tormenting fury while he hath a being, Rom.

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VII. “ The law discharges all its threats and “ curses at thee.” Gal. iii. 10. Deur, xxviii. O how dreadful doth it thunder! It spits fire and brimstone in thy face; its words are as drawn swords, and as the sharp arrows of the mighty; it demands satisfaction to the utmost, and cries Julfice, uffice : It speaks blood, and war, and

, wounds, and death against thee. O the execrations, and plagues, and deaths that this murdering piece is loaded with! (read Deut. xxviii, 15, &c.) and thou art the mark at which this shot is levelled, “Oman, away to thy strong hold,” Zech. ix. 12.; away from thy sins; haste to the sanctuary, the city of refuge, Heb. xii. 13. even the Lord Jesus Chrift;

hide thee in him, or else thou art lot with, out any hope of recovery.

VIII. “ The gospel itself bindeth the sentence " of eternal damnation upon thee,”, Mark xvi. 16. If thou continueft in thine įmpenitent and unconverted state, know that the gospel denounceth & much forer condemnation than ever would have been for the transgreffion only of the first covenant. Is it not a dreadful case, to have the gospel itself thunder out threats of damnation? To have “ the “ Lord roar from mount Sion against thee?"? Joel dii. 16. “ Hear the terror of the Lord: He that « believeth not shall be damned.-Except ye repent ye shall all perish,” Luke xiii.

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This so is the condemnation, that light is come into the “ world, and men love darkness rather than light,”? John iii. 19.

“ He that believeth not, the wrath “ of God abideth on him," fohn iii. 36. “ If “ the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and “ every tranfgreflion and disobedience received a “just recompense of reward how fhall we escape “ if we neglect so great saivation?" Heb. ii. 2, 3. “ He that despised Moses's law, died without

mercy; Of how much forer punishment shall he “ be thought worthy, that bath trampled under « foot the Son of God," teb. x. 28, 29.

APPLICATION. And is this true indeed ? Is this thy misery! Yea, it is as true as God is. Better open thine eyes

and see it now, while thou mayeft remedy it, than blind and harden thyself, till, to thy eternal sorrow, thou shalt feel what thou wouldest not believe: And if it be true, what doft thou mean to loiter and linger in such a case as this?

Hear what the Lord faith : “ Fear ye not me, « faith the Lord, will ye not tremble at my pre

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$ fence?” Jer. v. 22. O sinners, do you make light of the wrath to come ? Matt. iii. 7. I am fure there is a time coming when you will not make light of it. Why, the very devils do believe and tremble, James' ii. 19. What! are you more hardened than they? Will you run upon the edge of the rock? Will you play at the hole of the asp? Will you put your hand upon the cockatrice's den? Will you dance upon the fire till you are burnt ? Or dally with devouring wrath, as if you were indifferent whether you did escape or endure it ? O madness of folly ! Solomon's madman, that casteth firebands, arrows, and death, and faith, “ Am I not in jeft ?” Prov. xxvi. 18.There is nothing so distracted as the wilsul finner, Luke xv. 17.; that goeth on in his unconverted ftate, without sense, as if nothing ailed him. The man that runs on the cannon's mouth, and sports with his blood, or lets out his life in a frolic, is fenfible, sober, and serious, to him that goeth on fill in his trespasses, Psalm lxviii, 21: for it he stretch" eth out his hand against God, and strengthens “ himself against the Almighty : he runneth upon “ him, even upon his neck, upon the thick bosses of « his buckler,'7ob xv. 25, 26. Is it wisdom to dal. ly with the second death, or to venture into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone? Rev. xxi. 8.; as if thou wert but going to wash thee, or to swim for thy recreation > What shall I say? I can find out no expreffion, no comparison, whereby to set forth the dreadful distraction of that soul that continues to go on in fin.

Awake, awake, (Eph. v. 14.) O finner ! arise, and take thy flight: There is but one door that

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