Four
SERMONS
ON
Psalm
LXXXI
.
11
,
12.
The
First
Sermon
.
Psal.
LXXXI
.
11
,
12.
But
my
People
would
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
,
and
Israel
would
none
of
me
,
so
I
gave
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
lusts
:
and
they
walked
in
their
own
Counsels
.
THE
Jews
have
a
Tradition
,
that
at
stated
times
of
the
year
God
doth
lament
and
complaine
over
their
ruined
Temple
at
Jerusalem
;
that
Temple
that
was
once
the
Seat
of
his
Glory
,
and
the
Place
of
his
special
Residence
for
so
long
a
time
.
Their
own
Value
,
and
affection
for
it
,
made
them
fondly
imagine
,
that
God
himself
could
not
behold
its
Ashes
and
Dissolution
without
Resentment
:
Not
considering
that
the
Wickedness
of
the
People
called
by
his
Name
,
and
entrusted
with
the
Priviledges
of
his
House
,
had
provoked
his
most
righteous
severity
to
lay
it
waste
.
This
was
a
weak
and
groundless
Fancy
of
the
carnal
Jews
:
We
have
other
Measures
whereby
to
Judge
of
the
blessed
God
.
We
are
fully
assured
that
his
Thoughts
are
not
as
ours
in
such
matters
;
That
it
is
a
far
sadder
spectacle
in
his
Eye
,
to
behold
the
Hypocrisy
and
Carnality
of
those
that
worship
in
his
Temple
,
than
to
see
it
laid
in
Ruines
;
a
far
more
dismal
sight
,
to
behold
the
offers
of
his
Grace
refused
,
and
slighted
;
to
have
the
Invitations
of
the
Gospel
,
and
the
glad
Tidings
of
Peace
rejected
,
by
those
who
can
be
saved
no
other
Way
;
and
who
must
perish
if
they
neglect
this
great
Salvation
:
To
see
Multitudes
of
such
continue
under
the
Power
of
sin
,
willfully
choosing
the
way
of
Destruction
,
and
hardning
their
own
Hearts
against
all
the
gracious
Methods
of
their
Recovery
;
This
in
the
Judgment
of
God
,
who
Judgeth
Righteous
Judgment
,
is
by
far
the
more
astonishing
,
and
deplorable
Object
.
For
we
never
read
of
God's
complaining
of
any
Thing
so
much
as
of
this
.
And
how
often
,
and
in
what
passionate
Expressions
doth
he
complain
of
the
Obstinacy
,
Unteachableness
,
and
Wilfulness
of
the
Jews
,
his
ancient
People
,
Oh
that
they
were
wise
!
O
that
they
would
consider
!
how
long
will
you
not
be
purged
?
when
shall
it
once
be
?
why
will
ye
dye
▪
&c.
And
the
Prophet
Isaiah
introduceth
Christ
,
and
his
Apostles
,
complaining
to
the
like
Purpose
,
Who
hath
believed
our
Report
and
to
whom
is
the
Arm
of
the
Lord
revealed
?
O
that
thou
hadst
known
,
even
thou
,
in
this
thy
day
,
the
Things
that
belong
to
thy
Peace
,
&c.
And
in
the
verse
following
the
Text
,
O
that
my
People
had
hearkened
to
my
Voice
,
and
walked
in
my
Ways
.
This
is
the
Subject
Matter
of
the
complaint
of
these
Words
,
which
is
attended
with
a
Threatning
,
of
one
of
the
heaviest
Judgments
that
can
be
inflicted
:
My
People
would
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
,
and
Israel
would
none
of
me
:
So
I
gave
them
up
,
&c.
Here
is
,
First
,
A
most
Reproaching
Complaint
.
Secondly
,
A
most
Terrible
Threatning
.
The
Complaint
is
in
the
11th
verse
,
My
People
would
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
,
&c.
The
most
significant
Words
are
used
to
awaken
Shame
,
and
Indignation
in
the
guilty
Persons
against
themselves
,
for
refusing
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
First
,
Their
Fault
is
aggravated
from
their
near
Relation
to
God
,
My
People
.
Israel
,
the
beloved
Nation
,
my
peculiar
People
,
favoured
above
the
Rest
of
the
World
with
many
special
advantages
,
They
did
not
hearken
to
me
.
Secondly
,
From
their
Wilfulness
,
They
would
not
hearken
to
me
.
They
would
none
of
me
.
For
though
the
first
Expression
in
the
Hebrew
,
be
only
thus
,
My
People
did
not
hearken
to
me
,
yet
the
latter
Words
,
They
would
none
of
me
,
doth
lay
the
Blame
upon
their
own
Wilfulness
,
and
does
sufficiently
Justify
our
Translation
of
it
.
It
is
aggravated
,
Thirdly
,
From
what
their
not
hearkening
to
Gods
Voice
did
imply
,
and
carry
in
it
,
That
they
would
none
of
God
;
they
refused
to
have
God
for
their
God
.
They
cared
not
for
any
Relation
to
him
,
or
Acquaintance
with
him
,
or
Instruction
from
him
,
or
Happiness
by
him
;
They
would
none
of
me
.
Secondly
,
unto
this
Complaint
in
the
11th
verse
is
Subjoyned
a
terrible
Threatning
,
ver.
12th
,
So
I
gave
them
up
to
their
Hearts
Lusts
,
to
walk
in
their
own
Councels
.
In
the
Hebrew
both
Expressions
are
in
the
Future
,
that
for
their
former
Provocations
God
would
do
so
,
and
the
latter
is
the
Consequence
of
the
former
.
The
walking
in
their
own
Councels
,
is
the
Fruit
of
their
being
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
There
are
two
Things
may
be
collected
as
the
Sum
of
both
Verses
,
to
be
discoursed
of
from
them
.
First
,
That
it
is
Matter
of
Just
Complaint
and
Reproach
,
when
a
People
,
or
Person
,
will
not
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
Secondly
,
That
for
such
wilful
Persons
to
be
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
so
as
to
be
left
of
God
to
walk
in
their
own
Councels
,
is
one
of
the
most
fearful
Judgments
that
can
be
threatned
,
or
inflicted
in
this
World
.
Something
I
would
speak
to
the
former
though
in
order
to
the
latter
,
which
is
principally
designed
.
And
what
Subject
more
seasonable
,
or
more
likely
to
be
useful
,
unto
those
who
have
the
Voice
of
God
repeated
to
them
Week
after
Week
,
with
such
Frequency
,
and
Variety
,
as
you
have
it
in
this
City
.
First
,
That
it
is
Matter
of
Just
Complaint
,
and
Reproach
,
for
any
People
,
or
Person
not
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
And
here
it
will
be
proper
to
shew
,
1.
What
it
is
,
not
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
2.
How
this
appears
to
be
such
Just
Matter
of
Complaint
from
God
,
and
Reproach
unto
us
,
who
are
guilty
of
it
.
First
,
What
it
is
not
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
By
the
Voice
of
God
here
,
we
are
to
Understand
,
that
of
his
Word
;
as
is
manifest
from
Jer.
7.23
,
28.
Verses
.
This
thing
commanded
I
them
,
saying
,
Obey
my
Voice
,
and
I
will
be
your
God
.
But
they
hearkned
not
,
●or
inclined
their
Ear
,
but
walked
in
the
Councels
and
Imaginations
of
their
own
evil
Hearts
;
therefore
shalt
thou
say
unto
them
,
this
is
a
Nation
that
Obeyeth
not
the
Voice
of
the
Lord
their
God
.
His
instructing
and
informing
Voice
,
is
here
meant
,
That
which
discovers
the
Nature
of
God
,
and
our
Duty
,
the
wretched
state
of
our
Case
by
the
first
Apostacy
,
and
the
Method
of
our
Recovery
to
the
Image
and
Life
of
God
,
and
Communion
with
him
.
It
is
also
his
commanding
Voice
,
unto
the
Authority
whereof
,
we
all
owe
utmost
Obedience
and
subjection
.
It
is
that
Voice
of
God
which
warns
us
of
our
Danger
;
invites
us
to
Terms
of
Peace
and
Reconciliation
;
directs
us
what
we
ought
to
do
,
that
we
may
be
saved
,
&c.
And
have
we
not
all
the
Obligation
in
the
World
,
to
hearken
to
this
Voice
?
carefully
to
attend
to
it
?
to
consider
its
Authority
?
to
make
a
Judgment
about
its
Necessity
,
and
Importance
,
about
the
Reasonableness
and
advantages
of
our
Obedience
?
&c.
Now
there
be
many
that
Openly
,
and
Expresly
refuse
to
hearken
to
thi●
Voice
.
But
the
Number
is
greater
of
such
,
who
do
it
Vertually
,
and
in
Effect
:
either
by
their
groundless
Cavils
and
Objections
against
the
Word
of
God
;
or
by
their
frivolous
Excuses
,
and
toolish
Delays
of
complying
with
it
;
or
by
Obeying
the
contrary
Dictates
of
the
Flesh
and
the
World
,
and
hearkening
to
the
Voice
of
Satan
;
by
all
which
they
manifest
their
Unwillingness
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
But
,
Secondly
,
How
does
this
appear
to
be
such
a
Matter
of
Just
Complaint
and
Reproach
?
To
this
Purpose
we
may
consider
,
1.
Whose
Voice
it
is
you●
refuse
to
hearken
to
:
by
his
Son
,
Whom
he
hath
appointed
Heir
of
all
Things
,
and
by
whom
he
made
the
World
,
the
Brightness
of
his
Fathers
Glory
,
the
Express
Image
of
nis
Person
.
How
shall
we
escape
,
if
we
neglect
,
and
slight
,
and
will
not
hearken
to
that
Word
of
Salvation
which
began
to
be
spoken
by
our
Lord
himself
.
See
therefore
(
sayes
the
Apostle
)
that
you
refuse
not
him
that
speaketh
;
I
might
amplify
this
by
Considering
the
Authority
,
the
Veracity
,
the
Wisdom
,
the
Kindness
and
Condescention
,
of
him
that
speaketh
;
and
to
whom
we
are
called
,
and
Obliged
to
hearken
.
I
might
aggravate
it
,
by
Considering
how
all
our
Senses
,
and
our
Reason
,
our
Power
of
Hearing
,
and
Understanding
are
all
from
Him
:
And
how
often
he
hath
heard
our
Voice
when
we
have
cryed
to
him
in
our
Distress
.
And
how
ready
he
is
to
hear
us
in
every
time
of
need
,
when
none
else
can
help
or
save
us
:
And
how
severely
he
can
punish
our
Refusal
:
For
in
his
hand
is
our
Life
and
Breath
,
and
all
our
Ways
.
It
is
he
who
hath
Power
to
save
or
to
Destroy
and
shall
we
refuse
to
hearken
to
his
Voice
?
Yea
further
,
he
designes
our
Good
,
and
intends
our
Happiness
,
by
what
he
speaks
.
He
can
have
no
Accession
to
his
own
by
our
Felicity
,
but
might
glorify
himself
in
our
Ruine
,
if
we
decline
the
Invitations
of
his
Mercy
,
and
refuse
to
hearken
to
his
Voice
.
Secondly
,
Consider
,
not
only
who
it
is
that
speaks
,
but
what
kind
of
Voice
it
is
.
How
gentle
,
how
obliging
,
how
beneficent
,
and
condescending
.
He
doth
not
now
speak
to
us
with
Majestick
Terrour
,
in
Thunder
and
Lightning
,
with
such
an
amazing
Voice
as
upon
Mount
Sinai
,
to
the
People
of
the
Jews
:
When
he
made
the
Mountaine
shake
,
and
the
People
Tremble
,
But
imploys
Messengers
like
our selves
,
to
speak
in
his
Name
.
He
considers
our
weakness
,
and
the
Necessity
of
our
Case
,
and
promises
to
accompany
the
ordinary
Preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
with
the
Power
of
his
Spirit
.
That
the
great
and
necessary
truths
published
,
explained
,
and
pressed
,
by
a
serious
Ministry
,
shall
be
the
Power
of
God
unto
Salvation
.
He
requires
those
that
are
intrusted
with
this
work
,
to
instruct
,
to
exhort
,
to
warn
and
reprove
,
to
beseech
and
intreat
you
in
the
Name
of
Christ
,
with
Earnestness
and
Importunity
,
that
you
would
not
receive
the
Grace
of
God
in
vain
;
that
you
would
be
reconciled
to
God
,
praying
you
in
Christ's
stead
that
you
would
be
so
,
least
the
Things
that
concern
your
Peace
should
be
for
Ever
hid
from
your
Eyes
.
Thirdly
,
Consider
,
Who
They
are
,
that
are
said
to
refuse
to
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
My
People
Israel
.
My
First
born
,
more
nearly
related
to
me
,
more
peculiarly
favoured
and
priviledged
by
me
than
the
rest
of
the
World
.
We
Christians
succeed
in
their
Priviledges
,
not
only
as
Domestick
Servants
,
but
as
Children
,
visibly
related
to
God
,
as
our
Father
,
by
the
Covenant
of
Baptism
.
And
shall
not
Children
receive
the
Instruction
of
a
Parent
?
stoned
to
Death
:
and
all
the
Men
in
the
City
,
were
to
have
a
Hand
in
bringing
such
a
Monster
to
that
deserved
Punishment
.
Fourthly
,
That
the
Complaint
and
Reproach
is
Just
,
will
appear
by
considering
,
what
is
Connected
with
it
,
in
the
Words
that
immediately
follow
,
Israel
would
none
of
me
,
that
is
,
if
they
will
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
,
they
declare
they
will
have
none
of
me
.
God
offers
himself
to
enter
into
a
Covenant
,
and
to
be
your
God
;
only
obey
my
Voice
and
I
will
be
so
But
they
inquire
not
after
him
.
There
is
none
that
saith
,
where
is
God
my
Maker
?
They
will
none
of
me
,
i
e
they
will
not
have
me
to
be
their
Lord
and
Ruler
,
they
will
not
have
me
to
be
their
Portion
and
Chief
Good
.
It
is
plain
they
will
not
,
because
they
refuse
my
Teachings
,
and
Guidance
;
they
will
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
.
Now
this
being
duely
attended
to
,
will
sufficiently
Justify
the
Divine
Severity
,
v.
12.
towards
such
who
will
not
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
For
thereby
they
do
in
Effect
bid
him
depart
from
them
,
they
tell
him
,
we
desire
not
the
Knowledge
of
thy
Ways
.
And
if
hereafter
he
should
bid
them
depart
from
him
into
Everlasting
Fire
,
with
the
Workers
of
Iniquity
,
the
Sentence
would
not
be
more
dreadful
than
Righteous
.
If
he
say
,
Depart
from
me
,
you
unthankful
despisers
of
my
Grace
;
I
would
have
instructed
,
and
sanctifyed
,
and
saved
you
,
but
you
would
not
;
I
called
,
but
you
refused
,
and
turned
the
deaf
Ear
;
I
exhorted
,
and
beseeched
,
and
intreated
you
to
have
Pity
on
your selves
in
Time
,
but
you
would
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
.
I
faithfully
warned
you
of
your
danger
,
but
you
made
light
of
it
.
I
offered
to
be
your
God
,
and
to
make
you
happy
and
blessed
for
Ever
,
if
you
would
but
accept
my
offer
;
but
you
would
none
of
me
.
Therefore
if
he
should
speak
to
them
hereafter
in
his
Wrath
,
and
vex
them
in
his
sore
Displeasure
:
if
he
then
be
Deaf
to
their
Crys
,
who
now
refuse
to
hearken
to
his
Voice
,
their
Sentence
will
be
Just
.
And
no
less
would
it
be
if
God
should
inflict
the
heavy
Doom
mentioned
in
this
Text
:
which
is
the
Beginning
of
Hell
,
where
it
continues
without
Remedy
,
and
timely
Relief
is
not
admitted
.
Such
as
will
not
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
;
the
Language
of
whose
Heart
is
thereby
manifest
,
that
they
will
none
of
him
,
Such
as
these
,
God
may
Justly
give
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
;
and
leave
them
to
walk
in
their
own
destructive
Councels
.
And
this
brings
me
to
consider
the
Second
Proposition
.
That
for
wilful
Sinners
to
be
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
and
to
be
left
of
God
to
walk
in
their
own
Councels
,
is
one
of
the
most
tremendous
Judgments
that
can
be
threatned
,
or
inflicted
in
this
World
.
First
,
What
is
it
for
God
to
give
up
any
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
Secondly
,
What
is
his
usual
Method
of
inflicting
such
a
Judgment
.
Thirdly
,
Wherein
does
the
Terrour
and
Dread
of
such
a
Judgment
appear
?
or
what
Considerations
will
manifest
this
to
be
such
a
dismal
Judgment
?
What
I
shall
speak
under
these
Three
Heads
will
make
way
for
the
practical
Application
.
I
must
grant
that
there
is
an
unsearchable
Depth
in
the
divine
Judgments
;
especially
in
his
Methods
of
Severity
towards
the
Souls
of
Men
:
And
therefore
when
we
have
gone
as
far
as
Scripture
and
Experience
will
direct
and
lead
us
,
we
must
yet
cry
out
,
O
the
bottomless
Depths
of
the
Divine
Councels
:
how
unsearchable
are
his
Judgments
,
However
,
we
must
hold
to
this
,
that
all
his
Works
are
perfect
:
●nd
that
he
is
a
God
of
Truth
,
and
without
Iniquity
;
his
Ways
are
Judgment
,
And
it
is
remarkable
that
this
is
spoken
after
a
terrible
Expression
a
little
before
concerning
the
Jews
,
that
after
having
seen
the
Signs
and
Wonders
and
Miracles
that
God
wrought
among
them
,
yet
hath
he
not
given
you
a
Heart
to
perceive
,
and
Eyes
to
see
,
and
Ears
to
hear
,
unto
this
Day
.
But
whatever
Obscurity
there
may
be
in
the
Manner
,
yet
such
a
Thing
as
Gods
leaving
Men
to
themselves
must
be
acknowledged
;
yea
,
Never
was
any
People
so
punished
in
this
Manner
,
as
the
Nation
of
the
Jews
.
After
having
long
resisted
the
Spirit
,
neither
Word
,
nor
Rod
could
awaken
them
,
but
the
Things
of
their
Peace
,
were
hid
from
their
Eyes
.
But
we
must
not
conceive
of
this
,
as
an
Act
merely
of
Will
and
Pleasure
in
God
;
without
Respect
to
their
former
sin
.
But
consider
it
as
an
act
of
Righteous
Judgment
,
upon
great
Provocation
.
This
Doom
never
goes
before
the
Fault
;
when
they
will
not
be
purged
,
they
are
left
to
be
filthy
still
.
After
long
striving
and
Resistance
God
lets
'em
Alone
.
We
must
view
it
as
something
Judicial
toward
those
who
had
highly
deserved
it
,
by
former
Refusals
of
his
Grace
,
and
disobeying
his
Voice
:
And
therefore
when
God
is
said
in
the
4th
of
Exodus
to
harden
Pharaoh
,
let
us
consider
who
he
was
,
and
what
he
had
done
:
Was
he
not
guilty
of
the
most
prophane
contempt
of
God
,
Who
is
the
Lord
,
that
I
should
obey
his
Voice
?
I
know
not
the
Lord
,
neither
will
I
let
Israel
go
,
Exod.
5.2
.
And
was
he
not
guilty
of
the
most
barbarous
Injustice
,
and
Cruelty
against
the
People
of
God
?
Had
he
not
for
many
years
opprest
,
and
inslaved
them
?
were
not
He
and
his
Subjects
resolved
to
destroy
those
whom
God
resolved
to
preserve
?
&c.
He
is
three
times
said
to
have
hardned
his
own
heart
.
Exod.
8.15
,
32.
And
chap.
9.34
.
Tho
●e
had
sufficient
means
of
Conviction
,
●y
Aarons
Rod
swallowing
up
those
of
●e
Magicians
,
7
Exod.
1.2
.
And
by
the
Magicians
being
non-plust
in
their
Art
;
●oncerning
the
Judgment
of
Lice
,
Exod.
●
.
18
.
And
they
themselves
were
●mitten
with
Boils
,
Chap.
9.11
,
12.
And
now
and
then
Pharoah
had
some
Relentings
,
chap.
9.27
,
10.
chap.
16.17
.
So
the
Jews
in
our
Saviour's
Time
,
concerning
whom
the
like
Expressions
are
used
,
John
12.40
.
They
were
such
as
hated
the
Light
,
as
would
not
accept
of
Christ
,
or
his
Forerunner
the
Baptist
,
but
said
of
both
,
that
they
were
possessed
of
a
Devil
.
In
this
Case
we
may
use
the
Apostles
Expression
,
Is
God
unrighteous
,
who
taketh
Vengeance
?
Here
indeed
is
very
dismal
Severity
,
but
there
is
no
shadow
of
unrighteousness
.
This
being
premised
,
we
may
consider
,
First
,
What
these
Lusts
of
Mens
Hearts
are
?
Secondly
,
What
it
is
to
be
given
up
Judicially
to
them
.
The
Lusts
of
our
Hearts
unto
which
some
are
given
up
by
God
,
may
Comprehend
the
false
Imaginations
,
and
undue
Conceptions
of
Things
that
are
framed
in
the
Soul
,
concerning
God
,
and
our selves
,
Sin
and
Duty
,
Happiness
and
Misery
,
&c.
And
our
Irregular
Desires
,
and
Inclinations
;
with
all
the
wicked
Projects
,
and
Contrivances
of
the
Soul
,
concerning
the
gratifying
and
fulfilling
the
Lusts
of
the
Flesh
,
the
Lusts
of
the
Eyes
,
and
the
Pride
of
Life
.
Now
for
God
to
give
up
any
Men
to
these
Lusts
,
so
as
not
to
hinder
them
from
walking
in
their
own
Councels
,
is
not
to
be
supposed
as
if
he
gave
his
approving
Consent
,
that
they
should
obey
these
Lusts
:
Not
that
he
gave
them
leave
to
sin
,
or
approved
what
they
did
,
in
serving
divers
Lusts
,
but
that
which
is
chiefly
comprehended
in
it
is
,
First
,
That
such
Persons
are
cast
out
of
Gods
special
Protection
and
Care
,
and
so
are
exposed
to
wander
and
go
astray
:
To
walk
as
a
Lamb
in
alarge
Place
,
and
so
are
more
easily
assaulted
,
and
Overcome
by
the
Devil
,
who
seeketh
whom
he
may
destroy
.
Secondly
,
That
they
are
left
of
God
under
the
Dominion
,
and
Power
,
and
Tyranny
of
their
own
Lusts
;
He
that
〈◊〉
filthy
let
him
be
filthy
still
.
Rom.
22.
●1
.
He
that
heareth
let
him
hear
;
and
he
●●at
forbeareth
let
him
forbear
,
for
●hey
are
a
Rebellious
House
.
They
shall
not
be
smitten
any
more
,
nor
their
way
hedged
up
with
Thorns
.
The
Spirit
of
God
shall
not
strive
with
them
any
more
;
at
least
not
to
such
a
Degree
as
formerly
.
Nay
further
,
we
read
of
Mens
being
given
up
,
after
sins
against
Light
,
unto
a
[
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1.28
,
29
,
30
,
31.
Reprobate
unteachable
Mind
,
to
vile
affecti●ons
,
to
unnatural
Lusts
.
Yea
,
delivered
up
to
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*
2
Thes.
2.11
.
strong
Delusions
of
Satan
,
that
they
may
believe
Lyes
,
that
they
may
be
damned
.
But
remember
this
is
an
Act
of
Justice
and
Righteousness
in
God
;
for
the
Persons
thus
given
up
are
describ●d
to
be
such
as
would
not
receive
the
Truth
in
the
Love
of
it
.
That
there
is
such
a
Judgment
as
this
,
besides
the
Express
Testimoni●
of
Scripture
,
is
manifest
by
sad
Experience
.
For
what
tolerable
account
can
be
otherwise
given
of
the
Generality
of
professing
Christians
,
with
whom
the
sence
of
Duty
,
the
Honour
〈◊〉
Christ
,
the
Interest
of
his
Kingdom
have
so
little
Influence
,
to
a
conscientious
governing
their
Hearts
an●
Lives
?
Yea
how
else
is
it
?
That
notwithstanding
Mercies
and
Judgments
notwithstanding
providential
warning
and
gracious
Calls
,
notwithstanding
many
Convictions
and
Resolutions
and
good
Beginnings
,
notwithstanding
many
severe
Rebukes
for
pas●
Backslidings
,
and
some
Experience
how
evil
and
bitter
a
Thing
it
is●
and
hath
been
,
to
forsake
God
that
yet
in
Despite
of
God
,
and
Conscience
,
and
all
these
Obstacles
in
their
way
,
many
have
forsaken
the
Way
of
Righteousness
,
and
wallowed
againe
in
the
Pollutions
of
the
World
,
after
they
had
escaped
it
.
And
whatever
Hazard
they
run
by
it
,
whatever
Difficulties
they
meet
in
their
way
,
whatever
Methods
have
been
used
to
recover
and
save
them
,
yet
on
they
will
go
:
and
from
a
seeming
Zeal
for
God
and
Godliness
,
and
constant
day●●
Exercise
of
the
principal
Duties
of
Religion
in
their
Families
,
and
Closets
,
●hey
come
at
last
to
live
without
any
●f
these
;
in
the
total
Neglect
of
such
Duties
,
and
in
allowed
Practises
of
Drunkeness
,
Uncleaness
,
and
Unrighteousness
,
with
the
Contempt
of
the
Means
of
their
Conversion
,
and
a
secret
Enmity
against
the
true
Interest
of
Christ
in
the
World
,
and
against
the
serious
Profession
and
Power
of
Godliness
.
My
Friends
,
The
Case
of
such
Apostates
,
and
the
more
common
Degeneracy
of
many
Others
,
after
good
and
hopeful
Beginnings
,
who
have
sinned
themselves
into
a
quiet
peaceful
Conscience
,
or
rather
into
stupidity
and
Hardness
of
Heart
,
notwithstanding
the
Dayly
Commission
of
great
Abominations
;
the
deplorable
Case
,
I
say
,
of
such
Persons
,
and
the
Frequency
of
such
Cases
,
makes
it
manifest
that
there
is
such
a
Thing
as
mens
being
left
of
God
,
and
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
But
remember
,
I
call
it
a
deplorable
Case
,
not
an
irrecoverable
one
.
For
I
do
not
think
,
as
to
all
such
Persons
,
that
their
Day
of
Grace
is
past
;
that
the
Things
of
their
Peace
are
so
hid
from
their
Eyes
,
that
it
is
impossible
for
them
to
be
renewed
to
Repentance
.
There
are
Degrees
of
Gods
forsaking
Men
;
there
is
a
total
and
there
is
a
partial
Obduracy
and
Hardness
of
Heart
But
I
shall
speak
more
of
this
afterwards
.
We
should
Secondly
,
Consider
by
what
Method
God
does
for
the
most
part
proceed
,
to
inflict
and
Execute
such
a
Judgment
as
this
.
But
Thirdly
,
For
the
present
let
us
briefly
consider
the
Severity
and
Terrour
of
this
Judgment
.
According
to
the
Degrees
of
this
Punishment
inflicted
on
any
,
so
is
the
Wretchedness
of
their
Case
in
Proportion
to
be
estimated
.
For
a
Man
to
be
totally
left
to
the
Hardness
and
Obduracy
of
his
own
Heart
,
there
is
no
Judgment
in
this
World
so
severe
:
and
therefore
sayes
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Owens
Dominion
of
Sin
,
Page
73.
Dr.
Owen
,
it
is
never
Executed
,
but
towards
those
that
are
habitually
and
obstinately
wicked
,
and
do
out
of
choice
harden
themselves
in
their
sins
.
You
may
Consider
the
Dread
and
Horrour
of
such
a
Judgment
by
reading
Prov.
1.23
.
Heb.
10.26
,
&c.
Very
much
may
be
gathered
from
Luke
19.41
,
42.
Where
we
have
〈◊〉
most
significant
Representation
of
such
a
dismal
Case
,
in
our
Lords
affectionate
Bewailing
of
the
Misery
of
Jerusalem
,
as
forsaken
and
left
of
God
.
He
beheld
the
City
,
and
mingled
his
Lamentations
over
it
with
his
Tears
.
Saying
,
O!
Jerusalem
,
Jerusalem
,
if
thou
hadst
known
,
even
thou
,
at
least
,
in
this
thy
Day
,
the
Things
which
belong
unto
thy
Peace
!
but
now
they
are
hid
from
thine
Eyes
.
He
knew
how
deplorable
the
Condition
of
such
Persons
must
needs
be
,
and
what
was
due
to
so
great
a
Calamity
,
or
he
would
not
have
lamented
it
with
Tears
.
He
knew
the
aggravation
of
their
Guilt
,
and
the
Severity
of
the
Divine
Justice
,
and
the
Value
of
Immortal
Souls
,
and
the
Depth
of
Misery
,
into
which
such
guilty
sinners
are
sinking
;
he
perfectly
knew
these
Things
,
or
he
would
not
have
bestowed
Tears
upon
this
Occasion
.
And
which
yet
is
most
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See
Mr.
How
's
Redeemers
Tears
.
Pag.
149.
Dreadful
to
consider
,
when
Persons
are
becom●
incurably
Obstinate
,
and
Impeniten●
unto
Perdition
,
the
Redeemers
Tea●
may
Express
his
Compassion
,
but
wil●
not
abate
their
Misery
,
or
asswag●
their
Torment
.
They
that
have
rejected
and
dispised
his
Mercy
,
and
trampled
upon
his
Blood
,
shall
ye●
have
his
Tears
of
Compassion
.
Th●
former
would
have
saved
them
,
bu●
the
latter
only
bewails
their
Folly
,
and
their
Misery
,
what
they
have
los●
because
they
would
not
be
saved
.
They
neglected
God's
season
and
he
departed
,
Hosea
5.6
.
They
shall
go
with
their
flocks
and
with
their
herds
to
seek
the
Lord
:
But
they
shall
not
find
him
:
He
hath
withdrawn
himself
from
them
.
So
John
8.21
.
The●
said
Jesus
again
unto
them
,
I
go
my
way
,
and
ye
shall
seek
me
,
and
shall
dy
in
your
sins
:
Whither
I
go
,
ye
cannot
come
.
It
is
impossible
for
me
to
describe
the
Horrour
of
their
Case
,
with
whom
Matters
are
come
to
this
Issue
:
That
God
resolves
to
let
them
alone
,
to
give
them
up
into
the
Hands
of
their
own
Counsels
,
to
leave
them
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
to
the
Dominion
and
Tyranny
of
their
vile
Affections
and
Inclinations
,
that
they
shall
be
holden
in
the
Cords
of
their
own
Iniquity
,
and
without
further
Instruction
,
or
Restraint
,
When
because
they
would
not
be
purged
,
they
shall
not
be
purged
,
till
the
Divine
Fury
be
made
to
rest
upon
them
.
God
will
let
them
Alone
,
and
say
,
if
they
will
go
on
to
treasure
up
Wrath
against
a
Day
of
Wrath
,
e'ne
let
them
do
it
;
If
they
will
harden
their
Hearts
,
if
they
will
dye
,
if
they
are
so
intent
upon
their
own
Ruin
,
as
that
they
refuse
my
counsel
,
and
slight
my
Reproofs
,
and
resist
my
Spirit
,
and
hate
to
be
Reform'd
;
let
them
take
their
Course
,
let
them
walk
in
the
Ways
of
their
own
Heart
,
and
in
the
Sight
of
their
Eyes
,
let
them
prosecute
their
own
foolish
Choice
;
I
will
do
nothing
to
hinder
it
:
My
Gospel
shall
not
instruct
and
heal
them
;
My
Spirit
shall
not
to
any
good
purpose
longer
strive
with
them
;
that
which
is
the
Savour
of
Life
,
and
the
Power
of
God
unto
salvation
unto
Others
,
shall
have
a
deadly
Savour
unto
them
.
No
words
can
express
the
Horrour
of
such
a
Case
.
And
such
a
Case
is
possible
,
but
we
have
no
certaine
Rule
given
us
whereby
to
determine
our
Judgment
concerning
any
particular
Person
,
so
as
to
enable
us
to
say
positively
,
This
is
the
sad
condition
of
such
a
Man
,
or
such
a
Woman
:
But
because
many
fear
it
is
their
own
Case
,
and
the
Person
,
who
by
a
Letter
desired
me
to
preach
on
this
Subject
,
is
afraid
lest
Things
may
already
be
come
to
this
Issue
,
I
will
not
now
close
without
some
Application
.
And
Passing
over
several
Uses
that
may
be
made
of
this
,
I
shall
hence
take
Occasion
to
Exhort
to
three
Things
.
First
,
To
take
heed
not
to
pass
a
definitive
Sentence
against
your selves
,
concerning
the
state
of
your
own
Souls
,
as
to
this
Judgment
.
Secondly
,
However
to
apprehend
the
Danger
of
approaching
to
it
,
if
you
are
under
any
ill
Symptoms
of
that
kind
,
and
beware
of
those
Things
that
have
a
Tendency
to
so
sad
a
Doom
Thirdly
,
Diligently
to
improve
the
Means
you
are
yet
under
,
by
the
Warnings
of
the
Word
,
convictions
of
Conscience
,
and
the
Motions
of
the
Divine
Spirit
,
that
you
may
Effectually
prevent
it
.
That
as
it
is
not
your
Case
for
the
present
,
it
never
may
be
so
.
First
,
Take
heed
of
passing
a
definitive
Sentence
against
your selves
in
this
matter
.
There
is
a
Time
even
with
the
Impenitent
and
Unconverted
,
when
God
may
move
their
Hearts
more
strongly
unto
Conversion
,
than
afterwards
.
And
when
such
a
Time
is
over
with
thee
,
thou
mayest
be
apt
to
think
that
God
hath
utterly
Abandon'd
,
and
Forsaken
thee
;
and
be
ready
to
conclude
Thy
Day
of
Grace
is
past
.
In
this
Sense
it
may
be
past
with
many
long
before
their
Death
,
and
yet
their
state
not
be
irrecoverable
.
This
is
like
enough
to
be
the
Case
of
many
of
you
present
;
but
you
need
not
thereupon
question
but
you
shall
be
accepted
of
God
,
if
you
are
now
willing
to
return
to
him
.
You
have
no
ground
to
question
whether
Christ
will
receive
you
,
if
you
are
willing
to
come
to
him
;
or
whether
pardoning
Mercy
may
be
had
if
you
penitently
forsake
your
wicked
ways
,
and
turn
to
the
Lord
with
all
your
heart
.
Men
that
formerly
had
some
Motions
and
Helps
to
Repentance
,
which
they
neglected
and
misimproved
,
and
obstinately
resisted
,
may
be
so
given
up
to
their
Obstinacy
,
as
never
to
have
such
Motions
more
;
and
so
on
that
Account
the
Day
of
Grace
may
be
past
with
divers
.
But
such
Persons
are
hardened
in
Sin
,
and
hate
an
Holy
Life
,
oppose
serious
Godliness
,
and
the
Means
of
their
Recovery
,
&c.
But
the
Day
of
Grace
is
never
so
past
in
this
Life
with
any
Man
,
as
that
he
shall
not
be
accepted
and
pardoned
,
if
he
do
truly
repent
.
Therefore
for
a
penitent
returning
Sinner
to
fear
his
Day
of
Grace
is
utterly
past
,
or
that
his
Repentance
,
if
it
be
true
,
does
now
come
too
late
;
This
is
to
contradict
the
whole
Tenour
and
Scope
of
the
Gospel
.
Your
Case
may
be
more
dangerous
than
that
of
most
others
,
and
yet
not
Irrecoverable
.
Be
sure
it
is
not
,
if
you
have
not
sinn'd
that
Sin
which
can't
be
pardon'd
;
which
in
the
general
,
I
firmly
believe
no
man
is
guilty
of
,
who
is
afraid
lest
he
hath
been
,
or
is
so
guilty
.
Our
Obstinate
continued
forsaking
of
God
,
is
the
great
sign
of
our
being
forsaken
of
him
:
And
where
that
is
not
the
Case
,
you
should
not
Judg
so
concerning
your selves
,
or
others
.
And
even
where
it
is
so
,
for
the
present
,
the
Grace
of
God
may
be
rejected
for
many
years
;
and
yet
we
may
hope
that
some
Persons
may
afterwards
be
converted
by
that
Grace
,
which
before
they
rejected
.
So
that
we
cannot
tell
what
God
will
do
as
to
particular
Persons
.
Neither
would
it
be
any
advantage
for
us
to
know
if
such
and
such
,
be
so
far
forsaken
of
God
,
as
that
they
shall
never
be
recovered
,
but
continue
in
their
Obstinacy
and
Impentiency
to
the
End
of
their
Days
.
God
hath
[
*
](B10034-e13590-b)
*
Mr.
How
's
Redeemers
Tears
,
pag.
82.
not
made
it
any
Man's
Duty
to
believe
this
concerning
himself
,
nor
to
beleive
it
concerning
any
other
particular
Person
.
Some
of
those
whose
Hearts
were
once
as
hard
as
yours
,
who
slighted
Christ
as
much
,
and
as
long
,
as
you
have
done
,
who
dispised
many
awakening
Warnings
,
who
refused
and
turn'd
their
Backs
upon
many
Invitations
and
Calls
of
the
Gospel
,
and
resisted
the
Spirit
of
Grace
for
a
long
Time
,
have
afterwards
been
made
the
Triumph
of
the
Power
,
Love
and
Grace
of
God
.
Therefore
don't
pass
a
definitive
Sentence
against
your selves
.
To
pass
a
Judgment
upon
our
State
,
and
to
believe
it
concerning
our selves
,
is
to
nullity
the
Gospel
,
and
to
make
it
impossible
for
us
to
Repent
and
Believe
,
which
God
hath
made
to
be
our
Duty
.
It
is
a
sinful
prescribing
limits
to
the
Grace
of
God
,
to
say
,
It
hath
waited
on
me
so
long
,
it
will
,
it
can
wait
no
longer
.
Secondly
,
However
Apprehend
the
Danger
of
the
present
Case
,
if
you
are
under
any
such
Symptoms
as
have
a
Tendency
to
so
severe
a
Judgment
as
this
is
.
It
may
be
you
have
sinned
your selves
into
hardness
of
Heart
;
that
you
are
not
affected
with
the
Word
Preached
as
formerly
;
that
you
do
not
find
such
Impressions
by
it
;
that
the
Operations
of
the
Spirit
,
with
the
Word
,
that
were
formerly
strong
,
do
now
seem
to
cease
.
You
are
not
so
affected
with
the
Evil
of
Sin
,
with
such
hearty
Sorrow
,
and
bitter
Repentance
as
formerly
,
tho
thy
sins
be
most
highly
aggravated
;
And
are
little
affected
with
the
sins
of
others
;
you
are
more
senceless
,
stupid
,
and
secure
under
the
Guilt
of
great
Provocations
,
than
formerly
:
And
this
,
notwithstanding
some
Tokens
of
God's
Displeasure
by
afflictive
Rebukes
of
Providence
.
It
may
be
you
have
taken
up
with
a
fruitless
,
barren
,
empty
Profession
of
Religion
,
for
a
long
Time
;
joyn'd
with
the
Neglect
of
the
inward
Spiritual
Part
of
Godliness
,
Mortification
of
Sin
,
Watchfulness
over
your
Hearts
,
Government
of
your
Thoughts
,
Passions
,
and
Sences
,
&c.
And
have
gone
on
in
a
formal
Course
and
Round
,
of
some
external
Duties
;
without
Heart
,
or
Life
,
or
Quickning
;
and
this
contrary
to
your
Convictions
,
Resolutions
,
and
repeated
Promises
,
&c.
This
case
is
exceeding
sad
,
and
sinful
,
and
God
only
knows
where
it
will
Issue
,
if
deep
and
timely
Repentance
do
not
awaken
you
.
You
ought
to
apprehend
it
to
be
indeed
a
very
provoking
,
and
dangerous
Case
,
but
not
quite
desperate
.
Nay
,
let
me
go
further
,
Secret
Prayer
,
it
may
be
,
hath
been
neglected
for
a
Time
,
or
performed
with
so
much
coldness
,
that
you
now
Tremble
to
think
how
low
you
are
sunk
:
Or
which
is
much
worse
,
it
may
be
you
do
not
Tremble
.
The
Power
of
Conscience
is
in
a
great
measure
lost
,
both
in
restraining
from
Sin
,
and
in
checking
for
it
.
You
can
now
more
easily
stifle
Convictions
,
rebel
against
Light
,
and
venture
upon
a
known
sin
,
indulge
a
secret
Lust
,
and
allow
your selves
those
Things
from
day
to
day
,
which
formerly
you
could
not
without
sharp
Rebukes
of
Conscience
:
And
such
Preaching
,
and
such
Helps
as
did
once
startle
,
awaken
,
and
quicken
you
,
have
now
little
or
no
such
Effect
;
This
is
indeed
unspeakably
dismal
.
O!
how
low
are
such
fallen
?
how
difficult
,
how
sorrowful
must
be
the
awakening
and
Recovery
of
such
Backsliders
?
What
can
be
said
to
such
Persons
?
and
why
should
they
not
fear
the
Judgment
of
this
Text
?
lest
God
give
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
I
am
so
far
from
discouraging
such
a
Fear
,
that
I
would
by
all
Means
awaken
it
.
Therefore
I
say
it
would
be
Just
with
God
,
to
cast
thee
off
,
and
God
would
be
Righteous
,
if
he
reject
thee
utterly
,
if
he
forsake
thee
for
Ever
,
if
he
never
strive
with
thy
Heart
more
,
if
Never
Providence
or
Sermon
do
thee
good
more
.
This
would
be
Just
.
But
at
the
same
Time
let
Hope
be
intermingled
with
Fear
;
there
is
much
Cause
to
Fear
,
but
there
is
none
to
Despair
,
the
one
is
a
Duty
,
and
the
other
a
Sin
:
And
if
the
Consideration
of
your
sin
and
Danger
,
begin
to
melt
and
mollify
your
Heart
,
then
know
that
Christ
came
not
to
call
the
Righteous
,
but
Sinners
,
to
Repentance
;
and
mercy
may
yet
be
had
;
he
takes
pleasure
in
them
that
hope
in
his
Mercy
;
it
is
by
hope
we
are
saved
.
Therefore
aggravate
your
sins
,
and
the
grounds
of
your
Fear
,
and
the
Danger
of
your
perishing
to
Eternity
:
But
don
't
sit
down
in
Despondency
;
don't
yeild
your selves
to
perish
,
without
striving
to
prevent
it
.
Fall
down
before
his
Mercy-Seat
,
study
the
Nature
,
and
Promises
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
,
and
fly
to
Christ
,
according
to
the
general
Invitation
,
and
Call
of
the
Gospel
to
that
End
.
Thirdly
,
if
your
Hearts
begin
to
melt
,
and
move
within
you
,
who
have
apprehended
your selves
in
Danger
of
this
Judgment
,
if
you
are
yet
under
the
strivings
of
the
Spirit
,
(
as
your
very
Sollicitude
and
Fear
about
it
,
and
Desire
of
Assistance
,
doth
Imply
,
)
then
I
would
beseech
you
to
set
presently
to
work
out
your
Salvation
with
all
Diligence
.
Let
not
the
Dictates
of
an
awakened
Conscience
be
hush'd
,
and
silenc'd
:
Cherish
and
obey
the
holy
Motions
of
the
Spirit
:
Let
not
your
present
Convictions
and
Resolutions
become
abortive
,
for
want
of
Meditation
,
and
Prayer
,
and
advising
with
your
Ministers
,
and
Judicious
,
Faithful
Friends
.
Especially
take
heed
of
extinguishing
the
Sentiments
of
an
awakened
Conscience
by
new
Guilt
,
and
fresh
Transgressions
.
While
Conscience
is
thus
at
Work
,
your
Conversion
is
more
probable
,
and
hopeful
now
than
formerly
:
If
you
quench
not
the
Motions
of
the
Spirit
,
and
provoke
him
to
leave
you
.
If
you
will
but
hearken
to
his
Voice
and
follow
his
Counsel
,
and
not
again
harden
your
Hearts
:
If
you
would
now
earnestly
implore
,
and
thankfully
entertaine
,
and
carefully
improve
his
holy
Influences
.
Is
it
not
of
highest
Importance
,
that
you
do
so
without
Delay
?
When
your
Breath
is
in
your
Nostrils
,
and
the
Day
of
your
Life
,
and
your
Day
of
Grace
,
may
both
be
ended
before
to
morrow
Morning
.
Should
not
the
Kindness
of
God
overcome
you
?
That
Mercy
is
offered
●o
such
returning
Backsliders
?
should
〈◊〉
not
be
a
melting
,
transporting
Thought
,
for
such
as
you
to
consider
,
●hat
Christ
invites
you
to
come
to
him
,
●f
you
are
weary
and
heavy
laden
,
and
●romises
Rest
.
Read
Judges
,
10th
the
●atter
End
,
for
your
Encouragment
,
where
God
having
delivered
his
People
,
and
they
yet
forsook
him
,
it
is
said
,
●hat
he
would
deliver
them
no
more
,
but
●id
them
go
to
the
Gods
they
had
●hosen
:
But
they
cryed
to
him
,
and
●urned
from
their
evil
Ways
,
and
his
●oul
was
greived
for
them
,
and
he
did
●eliver
them
.
They
cryed
heartily
,
Lord
,
●o
unto
us
what
seemeth
thee
good
,
only
de●ver
us
,
so
do
you
in
like
Manner
,
and
●here
is
yet
Hope
;
Go
in
●ecret
,
and
●ell
him
,
that
it
is
the
Desire
of
your
Souls
,
now
to
return
to
him
,
beg
his
●anctifying
Spirit
with
utmost
impor●unity
,
plead
the
Vertue
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
say
unto
him
,
Lord
do
with
●ne
what
thou
wilt
;
afflict
me
how
thou
pleasest
,
strip
me
of
all
my
pleasant
Things
,
if
that
may
serve
the
Ends
of
thy
Glory
;
only
let
not
thy
holy
Spirit
forsake
me
;
only
deliver
me
out
of
●he
hands
of
my
Lusts
;
break
these
my
Chains
,
knock
off
these
Fetters
;
save
me
from
my
sins
,
and
from
th●
Wrath
;
accept
me
for
thy
Covenan●
servant
,
write
thy
Law
upon
my
Heart
,
that
I
may
walk
in
thy
Ways
.
And
whatever
thou
give
me
,
or
whatever
thou
deny
me
,
Lord
,
for
Jesu●
Christ's
sake
,
never
give
me
up
to
my
ow●
Hearts
Lusts
,
that
I
should
be
left
to
wa●●
in
my
own
Counsels
.
Amen
.
The
Second
Sermon
.
Psalm
LXXXI
.
12.
I
gave
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
lusts
:
and
they
walked
in
their
own
Counsels
.
WE
can
never
look
back
to
our
primitive
state
,
considering
how
richly
and
plentifully
the
Bounty
of
our
Maker
●ad
provided
for
us
,
without
admi●ing
Thoughts
of
his
Beneficence
and
Kindness
:
And
yet
,
if
we
view
the
Divine
Compassion
unto
guilty
and
●ebellious
Man
since
the
Fall
,
and
●ow
many
obstacles
his
Grace
over●ame
;
This
latter
will
be
Judged
to
surpass
his
former
Bounty
to
Innocent
Man
.
For
before
the
Entrance
of
sin
,
the
Current
of
Divine
Love
met
with
nothing
to
obstruct
its
passage
,
the●
was
nothing
to
discourage
its
Exe●cise
towards
an
Innocent
and
Obedient
Creature
:
But
now
sin
hath
made
a
great
gulf
betwixt
God
and
us
;
We
are
in
a
state
of
Enmity
,
and
Hostility
against
Him
;
which
sets
a
value
upon
the
Power
,
and
Freenes●
of
the
Grace
imployed
to
Recove●
and
save
us
.
And
yet
,
after
all
this
display
of
th●
unsearchable
Riches
of
Grace
,
and
Love
in
the
Work
of
our
Redemption
,
it
is
a
question
whether
our
willful
,
provoking
Obstinacy
against
God
be
not
more
astonishing
,
than
his
undeserved
Compassion
and
Love
to
us
that
in
contradiction
to
all
the
Princ●ples
of
Reason
,
and
Interest
,
we
should
slight
his
Kindness
,
and
despise
his
glorious
Love
,
and
refuse
his
Grace
,
the
only
Remedy
that
can
save
us
.
That
when
he
offers
to
be
Reconciled
to
us
,
and
Intreats
us
to
be
Reconcile●
to
him
,
we
will
not
hearken
to
his
Voice
:
That
we
should
persist
in
our
chosen
Distance
,
and
Estrangment
,
and
say
,
We
will
have
none
of
him
;
Let
him
depart
from
us
,
we
desire
not
the
Knowledge
of
his
ways
;
We
care
for
●o
Reconciliation
to
him
,
or
Communion
with
him
,
or
any
share
in
the
Happiness
he
offers
to
confer
upon
●s
.
Were
not
this
very
highly
pro●oking
,
the
Blessed
God
would
not
Complain
of
it
,
as
he
doth
▪
and
Repreach
●s
with
it
,
as
he
also
doth
,
in
many
●laces
,
and
particularly
in
this
,
My
People
would
not
hearken
to
my
Voice
,
and
●srael
would
none
of
me
;
so
I
gave
them
●p
,
&c.
Both
Expressions
are
in
the
●uture
,
though
we
translate
them
as
al●eady
inflicted
:
The
Original
signi●●es
that
God
would
deal
so
severely
●ith
them
.
The
Aggravations
of
his
Complaint
of
God
concerning
Israel
have
been
already
mentioned
.
What
I
propose
now
to
discourse
of
●s
this
.
First
,
That
it
is
matter
of
most
Just
Complaint
,
and
most
heavy
Re●roach
,
when
any
People
or
Person
will
not
hearken
to
the
Voice
of
God
.
Secondly
,
That
for
any
wilful
sin●ers
to
be
given
up
by
God
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
and
left
to
walk
in
their
own
Counsels
,
is
one
of
the
most
fearful
Judgments
that
can
be
threatned
,
or
inflicted
.
In
speaking
to
the
Second
General
,
I
proposed
to
shew
,
First
,
What
it
is
fo●
God
to
give
Men
up
to
their
ow●
Hearts
Lusts
.
And
that
such
a
thing
there
may
be
,
and
is
,
as
Gods
giving
men
over
to
their
false
Imaginations
and
Conceptions
of
things
;
their
inordinate
Desires
and
irregular
Passions
▪
their
wicked
Projects
and
Contrivances
for
the
fulfilling
of
their
variou●
Lusts
,
&c.
When
he
gives
them
up
to
these
Lusts
,
he
casts
them
out
of
hi●
special
Care
and
Protection
,
so
as
they
become
an
easy
prey
to
the
Devi●
And
the
Hebrew
word
which
we
translate
give
up
,
is
often
used
for
th●
casting
out
a
People
out
of
their
Country
,
as
in
44.
Psal.
2.
Such
Persons
a●
also
left
of
God
under
the
Tyranny
and
Dominion
of
their
Lusts
,
withou●
those
Restraints
of
Providence
an●
Grace
which
before
they
had
.
Wha●
more
may
be
intended
in
such
an
Expression
,
will
appear
in
speaking
to
the
Second
Head
,
viz.
To
shew
by
what
steps
and
Degrees
,
God
doth
execute
,
and
inflict
such
a
Judgment
upon
them
.
And
then
,
Thirdly
,
I
shall
speak
something
further
of
the
Dreadfulness
of
this
Judgment
,
and
so
Apply
the
whole
.
II.
By
What
steps
or
Degrees
the
Blessed
God
doth
usually
proceed
in
inflicting
such
a
Judgment
as
this
.
For
the
better
understanding
of
this
,
I
must
premise
by
way
of
Caution
.
1.
That
Whatever
Method
is
taken
in
the
Execution
of
so
severe
a
Doom
,
we
must
remember
there
is
a
great
depth
of
Obscurity
in
these
Judgments
of
God
;
There
is
so
in
all
his
works
of
Judgment
,
but
especially
in
such
as
do
more
immediately
relate
to
the
Souls
of
Men.
We
know
very
little
of
the
manner
of
Gods
Influence
upon
mens
Spirits
,
and
therefore
should
be
very
humble
and
wary
,
modest
and
cautions
in
our
Expressions
about
it
.
And
yet
from
what
we
observe
of
such
spiritual
Judgments
,
we
may
cry
out
with
the
Apostle
,
Rom.
11.33
O
the
depth
of
the
Riches
both
of
the
Wisdom
and
Knowledg
of
God!
How
unsearchable
are
his
Judgments
,
and
his
Ways
past
finding
out
!
We
know
very
little
of
the
manner
of
the
Holy
Spirit
's
Influence
,
in
forming
the
Image
of
God
upon
the
Soul
;
and
much
less
concerning
the
manner
of
this
Punishment
in
the
Text
;
whereby
men
are
hardened
in
sin
through
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
,
to
their
Eternal
Ruine
.
However
,
2.
Remember
,
This
is
a
Judicial
Act
in
God
,
not
an
arbitrary
thing
,
that
depends
upon
meer
Will
and
Pleasure
,
without
any
respect
to
the
Aggravations
of
Mens
wilful
Rebellion
,
and
sinning
against
Light
.
It
is
such
a
Judgment
as
supposes
very
hainous
Provocations
to
precede
it
.
The
Instance
of
the
Jews
doth
abundantly
prove
this
;
with
whom
the
Patience
of
God
did
long
bear
,
and
his
Spirit
strive
;
But
they
alwaies
resisted
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Acts
7.51
.
From
generation
to
generation
,
maintaining
the
war
against
the
Divine
Spirit
,
till
he
turned
to
be
their
Enemy
,
and
fought
against
them
.
Isa.
63.9
,
10.
And
then
their
Doom
is
pronounc'd
in
a
most
solemn
manner
,
with
terrible
and
astonishing
Preparations
for
it
,
Isa.
6.
By
a
glorious
Apparition
of
the
great
God
in
the
Temple
,
which
made
the
Prophet
cry
out
,
I
am
undone
,
&c.
The
fearful
message
he
was
to
deliver
,
to
that
People
,
was
that
9
,
10.
v.
Hear
ye
indeed
,
but
understand
not
;
see
ye
indeed
,
but
perceive
not
;
make
the
Heart
of
this
people
fat
,
and
their
ears
heavy
,
and
shut
their
Eyes
,
lest
they
see
with
their
Eyes
,
and
hear
with
their
Ears
,
and
understand
with
their
Heart
,
and
convert
,
and
be
healed
.
This
Doom
we
find
with
great
Awfulness
repeated
in
the
new
Testament
by
our
Saviour
,
Mat.
13.14
.
Luk.
8.10.12
.
John
40.
And
afterward
by
the
Apostle
Paul
when
he
was
testifying
against
the
obstinate
Infidelity
of
the
Jews
at
Rome
,
Rom.
11.8
.
We
may
therefore
clear
the
Righteousness
of
God
in
this
matter
,
by
considering
the
true
Account
and
Character
of
Those
,
whom
we
find
in
Scripture
,
or
believe
by
Experience
,
to
have
been
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
The
Wickedness
of
Pharoah
was
risen
to
a
very
provoking
height
,
before
God
is
said
to
harden
him
,
which
was
not
till
after
the
sixth
Plague
.
The
impenitent
Cananites
had
430
Years
,
before
God
gave
them
over
,
and
their
measure
was
full
,
Josh.
11.19
.
This
therefore
,
as
it
is
one
of
the
severest
Judgments
,
so
it
is
one
of
the
last
.
This
also
may
admit
of
Degrees
with
reference
to
several
Persons
.
For
there
is
a
partial
,
as
well
as
a
total
forsaking
of
God
,
and
being
forsaken
of
him
.
There
are
some
who
sin
against
their
Light
,
and
refuse
the
Grace
of
the
Gospel
,
and
may
for
a
time
be
forsaken
and
left
of
God
,
and
yet
his
Spirit
afterwards
strive
again
;
Whereas
with
others
he
may
never
strive
more
.
However
in
all
these
Cases
there
is
great
Provocation
that
does
precede
,
so
that
we
may
say
with
the
Apostle
,
Is
God
unrighteous
,
that
he
taketh
Vengence
?
Rom.
3.5
.
3.
I
would
also
premise
,
That
the
Holiness
of
God
must
be
cleared
,
as
well
as
his
Justice
.
Though
he
give
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
it
is
not
by
a
consenting
,
approving
Act
,
with
reference
to
the
sins
they
afterwards
commit
;
much
less
that
God
inclines
their
Hearts
to
sin
,
or
infuses
,
or
suggests
evil
to
them
.
It
is
not
that
He
gives
them
Indulgence
and
Leave
,
with
his
Consent
and
Approbation
,
to
serve
and
fulfil
any
of
those
Lusts
.
The
spotless
unchangable
Purity
of
the
Divine
Nature
,
which
hates
every
sin
,
cannot
consist
with
this
.
He
cannot
be
tempted
with
Evil
,
neither
tempteth
any
man
to
evil
.
Therefore
such
Expressions
as
Ezek.
20.39
.
As
for
you
,
O
House
of
Israel
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
go
you
now
every
one
and
serve
his
Idols
.
Such
Expressions
must
be
taken
in
an
Ironical
sense
.
That
is
,
Go
see
whether
the
Objects
of
your
Trust
,
and
Confidence
can
save
you
in
a
time
of
Calamity
:
Go
to
the
Gods
that
you
have
served
,
and
see
whether
they
will
help
you
,
for
I
will
not
.
It
is
like
the
Expression
,
Matth.
26.46
.
Sleep
on
now
,
and
take
your
Rest
,
for
behold
he
cometh
,
by
whom
the
Son
of
man
is
to
be
betrayed
.
I
desired
you
to
watch
with
me
,
but
you
would
not
;
and
that
season
is
now
past
,
Sleep
on
now
,
if
you
can
.
When
Satan
blinds
the
Minds
of
men
,
he
doth
it
by
strengthening
of
their
sin
,
he
doth
it
by
sinful
suggestions
,
and
the
like
:
But
the
Blessed
God
doth
not
thus
give
men
up
to
sin
:
No
such
Darkness
can
come
from
the
Fountain
of
Light
.
These
things
being
premised
,
let
us
Consider
some
of
those
steps
,
by
which
God
preceeds
in
this
matter
,
as
Scripture
,
Reason
,
and
Experience
may
direct
us
;
Though
after
all
,
there
is
a
Depth
in
these
Judgments
of
God
,
which
none
are
able
fully
to
Explain
.
1.
When
God
forbears
to
Afflict
,
and
to
restrain
men
from
sin
,
by
the
Rod
of
Correction
,
and
the
Rebukes
of
his
Providence
:
Or
doth
not
sanctifie
such
Rebukes
for
their
Reformation
.
We
little
think
whither
we
should
wander
,
if
God
did
not
hedg
up
our
ways
with
Thorns
,
Hos.
2.6
,
7.
If
he
did
not
by
his
Providence
make
a
Wall
that
we
should
not
be
able
to
find
our
sinful
Paths
;
that
we
should
not
be
able
to
make
Provision
for
our
Lusts
at
an
easy
rate
,
or
have
so
much
fewel
for
them
as
we
desire
.
My
People
Israel
,
says
God
by
the
Prophet
,
was
resolved
to
go
after
her
Lovers
;
but
God
says
I
will
make
her
return
back
in
confusion
.
She
shall
find
an
impassable
hedge
of
Thorns
in
her
way
;
I
will
stop
her
Course
,
I
will
make
a
Wall
,
and
a
Wall
,
as
in
the
Original
,
and
she
shall
not
find
her
Paths
.
Tho
she
follow
after
her
Lovers
,
she
shall
not
overtake
them
,
she
shall
seek
them
but
shall
not
find
them
.
The
like
Expression
you
have
3.
Lament.
7
,
9.
He
hath
hedged
me
about
that
I
cannot
get
out
,
he
hath
inclosed
me
with
●ewen
stone
.
Some
by
the
Fetters
of
Education
,
as
they
call
it
,
and
are
glad
when
they
can
shake
them
off
;
Some
by
the
want
of
Money
,
or
Interest
,
or
Power
,
to
accomplish
their
wicked
Purposes
,
have
their
Way
hedged
up
.
Sometimes
by
bodily
Pains
,
and
sickness
,
God
opens
the
Ears
of
men
,
and
seals
Instruction
to
them
,
that
he
may
withdraw
Man
from
his
Purpose
,
and
hide
Pride
from
Man
,
Job
33.17
,
18.
God
is
herein
very
merciful
to
many
.
Young
Persons
especially
should
consider
it
,
to
whom
it
is
a
Kindness
to
have
sin
made
difficult
to
them
:
For
if
they
had
so
much
Liberty
as
they
would
desire
,
and
so
much
Money
at
command
as
they
could
wish
,
and
were
let
alone
by
their
Superiours
to
do
as
they
please
,
and
live
as
they
list
,
without
any
check
,
or
fear
of
losing
the
favour
of
those
on
whom
they
depend
,
or
from
whom
they
have
their
Expectation
▪
If
things
were
thus
with
them
,
they
know
not
unto
what
Excess
and
Height
of
sin
they
should
run
.
So
for
Health
,
and
Bodily
strength
,
the
abating
of
these
may
be
a
merciful
Restraint
from
some
sort
of
sins
.
The
very
weakness
of
our
Constitutions
,
may
be
a
means
to
save
us
from
some
kind
of
Temptations
,
which
others
in
vigorous
Health
do
struggle
with
,
and
are
overcome
by
.
So
for
disappointments
in
the
World
,
Discountenance
and
Disgrace
,
and
other
such
things
,
that
are
apt
to
humble
and
afflict
the
Mind
.
The
more
of
these
Restraints
God
is
pleased
to
take
from
us
,
it
may
so
fall
out
,
that
the
more
Angry
he
therein
appeares
to
be
.
Especially
if
former
afflictive
Rebukes
of
Providence
,
have
been
misimproved
:
There
being
hardly
a
more
terrible
place
in
the
whole
Bible
,
than
that
threatening
of
God
,
Hos.
4.13
,
14.
Your
Daughters
shall
commit
Whoredom
,
and
your
Spouses
shall
commit
Adultery
;
And
I
will
not
punish
your
Daughters
when
they
commit
Whoredom
,
nor
your
Spouses
when
they
commit
Adultery
.
O
quanta
Paena
,
nulla
Paena
!
It
is
the
greatest
Judgment
,
or
the
fore
runner
of
that
which
is
so
,
when
God
abstains
from
punishing
,
when
by
timely
Chastisement
he
does
not
awaken
to
Repentance
,
and
stop
sinners
in
their
career
;
when
the
way
to
Hell
is
plain
,
and
easy
to
them
;
when
there
is
no
Thorn
,
no
Obstacle
in
the
way
,
but
they
may
smoothly
go
on
,
and
walk
after
their
own
Counsels
,
in
the
Paths
that
lead
to
the
Chambers
of
Death
.
How
many
Young
Persons
hath
God
been
kind
to
,
by
those
Restraints
of
Providence
,
which
he
takes
off
from
others
?
How
hath
he
hedged
and
walled
up
your
Way
?
He
hath
made
it
more
difficult
for
you
to
sin
:
you
cannot
do
as
others
,
without
suffering
more
than
they
;
either
in
your
Reputation
,
or
your
temporal
Interest
,
or
your
Health
,
&c.
And
yet
we
find
,
notwithstanding
all
this
,
many
such
will
not
be
divorced
from
their
beloved
Lusts
.
As
one
of
the
Antients
speaks
concerning
Philotimus
,
who
had
weakened
his
Constitution
,
and
impaired
his
Health
,
as
the
Effect
of
his
Intemperance
and
Riot
:
And
being
told
by
the
Physicians
,
that
if
he
would
not
forbear
,
and
presently
break
off
his
licentious
Course
,
that
he
must
certainly
lose
his
Eye
sight
:
There
was
no
help
for
him
,
but
in
a
little
time
he
would
be
Blind
:
He
presently
answers
the
Physician
thus
,
Valeat
lumen
amicum
,
Farewell
,
O
pleasant
and
desirable
Light
,
rather
than
not
sin
on
,
as
I
have
done
,
I
am
content
never
to
behold
the
Light
of
the
Sun
more
.
Will
the
Blessed
God
,
think
you
,
be
unrighteous
,
if
he
condemn
such
resolved
sinners
to
everlasting
Darkness
?
Or
to
give
them
up
now
to
those
Lusts
,
that
they
are
so
madly
set
upon
?
But
where
he
hath
Designs
of
Mercy
to
any
,
he
will
not
leave
them
to
go
on
without
Correction
.
As
many
as
I
love
,
I
rebuke
and
chasten
.
If
you
will
not
be
reclaimed
by
one
Rod
,
you
shall
have
another
,
and
a
third
and
a
fourth
.
If
you
will
not
for
all
this
turn
to
the
Lord
,
I
will
yet
punish
you
seven
times
more
for
your
Iniquities
,
Levit.
26.18
.
In
these
Cases
,
God
doth
not
spare
that
he
may
spare
;
he
doth
not
seem
to
have
Mercy
,
that
he
may
have
Mercy
;
He
doth
not
forbear
his
Rod
,
that
we
may
forbear
our
sins
;
He
will
not
let
us
alone
,
that
he
may
not
be
forced
utterly
to
abandon
us
:
He
will
rebuke
and
chasten
,
that
we
may
not
harden
our selves
unto
our
Eternal
Ruine
.
Whenever
you
behold
a
wicked
Person
thrive
and
flourish
in
the
World
,
when
you
see
him
prosper
in
his
Trade
,
and
boasting
of
his
Riches
,
priding
himself
in
his
Power
;
when
you
see
him
strong
and
healthful
,
surrounded
with
all
that
is
desirable
to
flesh
and
blood
,
flourishing
with
all
variety
of
outward
Blessings
,
personal
and
family
Advantages
,
&c.
And
●et
neglect
God
,
and
wallow
in
all
●●anner
of
carnal
Impurities
,
restrain
Prayer
from
the
Almighty
,
in
his
Family
,
and
in
his
Closet
,
and
live
like
a
Beast
,
without
God
in
the
World
;
When
you
behold
such
spectacles
,
think
of
the
Accomplishment
of
such
like
Scriptures
,
where
God
threatens
in
Anger
to
forbear
to
punish
such
and
such
men
.
This
is
the
first
Method
,
his
forbearing
to
afflict
.
2.
By
taking
away
the
External
Means
of
Knowledg
and
Grace
,
or
otherwise
disposing
of
Persons
so
as
they
cannot
enjoy
such
seasons
.
Acts
19.9
.
When
divers
were
hardned
,
and
believed
not
,
but
spake
evil
of
that
way
before
the
multitude
,
he
departed
from
them
.
God
continues
not
the
outward
means
in
such
places
,
or
the
persons
remove
into
remote
parts
of
the
world
,
where
the
Gospel
of
Christ
is
not
known
.
Thus
when
lewd
and
disobedient
Youths
have
sinned
against
God
and
their
Parents
,
to
that
degree
,
that
they
know
not
what
to
do
with
them
,
they
either
go
of
themselves
,
or
are
sent
into
the
Fleet
,
or
Army
,
or
to
the
Indies
,
to
such
Places
,
where
the
Gospel
is
not
preached
.
And
by
this
means
men
are
left
to
walk
in
their
own
Counsels
;
The
Publick
Ministery
of
the
Word
being
the
ordinary
Means
of
Sanctification
.
And
so
't
is
no
wonder
if
they
greedily
fulfill
their
brutish
Lusts
.
Therefore
if
God
withdraw
such
a
Ministery
from
the
Place
where
you
reside
,
or
you
run
madly
and
without
a
call
,
or
warrant
,
to
dwell
in
such
places
where
it
cannot
be
had
,
(
I
mean
such
a
Ministery
as
is
proper
to
enlighten
and
awaken
,
and
strive
with
you
in
order
to
your
Conversion
and
your
salvation
;
)
it
is
one
step
to
your
being
given
over
,
and
left
of
God
,
and
to
have
the
things
of
your
Peace
hid
from
your
Eyes
.
I
wish
Merchants
,
and
Traders
,
and
Parents
that
have
undutiful
Children
,
and
some
Others
,
who
are
resolved
They
will
be
Rich
,
would
consider
this
.
But
if
you
have
sat
under
a
convincing
lively
Ministry
,
but
you
begin
to
dislike
it
;
in
that
case
it
looks
very
ill
.
Especially
the
more
you
were
affected
with
it
formerly
,
and
now
disrelish
it
,
or
despise
it
.
In
such
Cases
,
the
means
of
holy
Knowledge
and
Sanctification
not
being
continued
,
or
improved
,
it
looks
fearful
as
to
such
Persons
:
More
especially
if
They
be
unaffected
,
and
unconcerned
it
their
own
Danger
in
these
Circumstances
.
3.
God
is
said
to
pour
upon
men
a
Spirit
of
Slumber
,
and
deep
Sleep
,
to
suffer
them
to
harden
their
Hearts
,
and
stupify
their
own
Consciences
the
more
,
by
every
thing
they
enjoy
;
so
that
though
the
external
Means
be
continued
,
yet
none
of
the
divine
Messages
will
be
received
,
nor
the
most
useful
Ministry
do
them
any
good
:
nor
the
Providential
goodness
of
God
lead
them
to
Repentance
.
All
their
earthly
possessions
,
and
temporal
Blessings
shall
become
snares
,
and
stumbling
blocks
,
Jer.
6.21
.
Therefore
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
behold
,
I
will
lay
stumbling
blocks
before
this
People
,
and
the
fathers
and
the
sons
together
shall
fall
upon
them
:
The
neighbour
and
his
friend
shall
perish
.
But
this
is
after
they
have
wilfully
hardened
themselves
.
So
it
was
with
Pharoah
when
he
had
obstinately
hardened
his
own
Heart
,
Exod.
7.14.8
.
chap.
19
,
32.
ver.
After
that
,
upon
his
continued
Obstinacy
,
God
declares
that
he
hardened
him
,
9.
chap.
12.
and
16.
ver.
And
caused
him
to
stand
up
,
or
raised
him
up
,
that
is
,
kept
him
alive
,
when
he
deserved
to
be
cut
off
by
a
quick
and
sudden
Destruction
;
for
this
very
end
,
that
he
might
shew
in
him
his
Power
.
So
provoking
was
his
former
Obstinacy
,
and
Incorrigibleness
.
Thus
are
men
the
faulty
Cause
,
by
chosen
wilful
Blindness
and
Hardness
,
before
they
are
forsaken
,
and
left
of
God
under
such
a
Judgment
.
4.
Another
step
is
God's
righteous
Refusal
to
continue
that
Influence
of
the
divine
Spirit
,
with
the
external
Means
of
Grace
,
which
men
have
abused
and
forfeited
.
Without
this
Influence
there
cannot
be
a
Day
of
Light
and
Power
under
the
Gospel
Dispensation
:
Both
which
are
necessary
to
make
our
day
of
Grace
.
But
when
any
People
or
Person
have
rebelled
against
God
,
and
vexed
his
holy
Spirit
,
he
may
cease
to
strive
with
their
Hearts
by
any
gracious
Influence
:
When
he
hath
knocked
often
,
and
they
would
not
open
;
such
inward
Motions
of
the
Spirit
,
as
they
formerly
had
,
they
may
have
no
more
;
and
so
they
are
forsaken
of
God
.
But
whether
totally
and
finally
,
so
as
not
to
return
again
,
is
more
than
we
can
say
of
particular
Persons
,
till
the
Event
shew
it
.
But
it
is
that
which
Men
have
reason
to
fear
,
according
to
the
ordinary
Methods
of
Gods
proceeding
,
who
now
disobey
the
Voice
of
his
Word
and
Spirit
.
He
might
Justly
withdraw
the
Influence
of
his
Spirit
from
them
,
and
seal
them
up
to
Destruction
;
and
so
it
is
possible
their
Day
of
Grace
may
be
ended
before
they
dye
;
and
their
not
believing
or
being
converted
,
will
certainly
follow
,
John
12.39
,
40.
5.
Another
step
is
,
when
God
sends
strong
Delusions
,
whereby
men
believe
Lyes
,
that
they
may
be
damned
,
2
Thess.
2.11
.
This
is
severe
indeed
,
but
being
after
obstinate
Refusal
of
his
Grace
,
it
is
righteous
severity
.
For
this
is
threatened
as
the
Punishment
of
backsliding
Christian
Churches
,
against
such
who
would
not
receive
the
Truth
in
the
Love
of
it
.
The
Deceived
and
the
Deceiver
are
his
,
Job
12.16
.
Now
God
may
do
this
two
ways
:
First
,
By
permitting
Deceivers
,
and
false
Teachers
,
to
speak
and
act
at
that
rate
of
Cunning
,
and
colour
of
Truth
,
that
it
is
very
difficult
to
resist
or
withstand
the
snare
.
And
therefore
we
read
of
the
coming
of
the
Man
of
sin
with
all
signs
,
and
lying
Wonders
,
or
with
Wonders
to
confirm
those
Lyes
.
This
God
foretold
and
warned
the
Jews
of
before
hand
.
2.
God
may
give
Men
up
to
strong
Delusions
,
by
taking
away
the
Assistance
of
Reason
and
a
clear
Judgment
,
to
distinguish
between
things
that
differ
.
Thus
Men
wrest
the
holy
Scriptures
to
their
own
Destruction
,
2
Pet.
3.16
.
Which
they
could
not
do
without
his
Providence
,
and
Permission
.
And
when
the
Gentiles
had
sinned
highly
against
the
Light
of
Nature
,
God
gave
them
over
to
a
Reprobate
Mind
,
Rom.
1.26
.
or
to
a
mind
uncapable
of
Judging
,
as
the
word
imports
;
a
blind
unjudicious
Mind
,
that
could
not
examine
,
or
distinguish
between
Truth
and
Falshood
.
This
is
as
consistent
with
the
Justice
of
God
(
considering
it
as
the
Punishment
of
former
Guilt
,
)
as
the
depriving
us
of
any
of
our
senses
would
be
.
And
without
some
such
thing
as
this
,
it
will
be
impossible
to
give
an
Account
of
the
Growth
,
and
Prevalency
of
the
many
ridiculous
,
absurd
Doctrines
,
and
Practices
of
Popery
.
It
cannot
otherwise
be
accounted
for
,
that
such
Fooleries
as
are
to
be
found
in
their
Opinions
and
Worship
,
should
ever
be
received
,
believed
,
complied
,
with
,
and
pleaded
for
,
by
Men
otherwise
of
Judgment
and
Learning
;
But
it
is
to
be
feared
that
they
are
given
over
to
strong
Delusions
to
believe
Lyes
.
There
are
many
others
that
are
no
Papists
,
whom
this
may
concern
,
who
,
after
a
great
Profession
,
have
fallen
back
into
secret
Wickedness
,
and
at
last
into
more
open
Crimes
,
against
Convictions
and
Resolutions
,
Promises
and
former
Experience
.
Many
such
in
the
last
Age
,
and
some
in
this
,
have
been
thus
left
of
God
,
to
run
into
strange
Enthusiasm
,
and
real
Fanaticism
,
to
receive
the
most
extravagant
,
and
sometimes
blasphemous
Opinions
;
to
espouse
and
plead
for
them
,
against
the
plainest
Reason
,
and
the
most
express
Scripture
that
can
be
.
But
usually
it
may
be
observed
,
the
Doctrines
they
receive
,
and
the
new
Lights
they
follow
,
are
such
as
tend
to
Licentiousness
,
to
encourage
the
Gratification
of
their
Lusts
,
that
they
can
sin
on
by
the
help
of
these
Opinions
,
with
greater
Security
and
Peace
.
This
is
another
step
,
whereby
men
are
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
LASTLY
,
When
God
gives
special
Permission
to
the
Devil
,
the
great
Enemy
of
Souls
,
to
exert
his
Power
,
and
Malice
in
blinding
and
destroying
Sinners
.
We
do
not
sufficiently
consider
what
we
owe
to
Gods
Restraint
of
Satan
,
that
we
are
not
more
succesfully
tempted
to
deny
the
Faith
,
and
cast
off
the
yoke
of
Christ
When
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
departed
from
Saul
,
an
Evil
Spirit
from
the
Lord
is
sent
to
trouble
and
punish
him
,
and
Satan
filled
his
heart
with
Rage
and
Cruelty
,
1
Sam.
16.14
.
Some
evil
Spirit
had
leave
from
God
to
seduce
Ahab
,
1
Kings
22.21
,
22.
Who
acted
his
part
succesfully
to
deceive
and
destroy
.
If
our
Gospel
be
hid
,
says
our
Apostle
,
it
is
hid
to
them
that
are
lost
,
2
Cor.
3.4
.
Whose
eyes
are
blinded
by
the
God
of
this
World
.
HE
is
ready
to
do
us
all
the
mischief
he
can
,
if
God
restrain
him
not
.
What
a
Power
had
he
over
the
Bodies
of
some
Men
,
in
the
days
of
our
Saviour
!
He
would
manifest
as
much
over
their
Souls
too
,
if
God
did
but
give
him
leave
.
The
Red
Dragon
went
out
to
deceive
the
Nations
,
we
read
in
the
Apocalyps
.
As
to
those
who
are
judicially
left
of
God
,
and
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
it
may
come
to
this
,
and
sometimes
doth
so
;
that
God
leaves
them
to
the
Power
of
Satan
to
deceive
and
ruine
them
,
and
they
are
led
captive
by
him
at
his
will
.
How
dismal
must
the
Case
of
such
Persons
be
!
Which
brings
me
to
consider
.
III.
THE
Severity
of
this
Judgment
.
Besides
what
has
been
said
concerning
it
already
,
let
me
add
a
few
Particulars
.
1.
The
Severity
of
this
Judgment
will
appear
,
if
we
consider
that
it
is
never
inflicted
but
after
many
preceeding
Provocations
,
upon
habitual
and
obstinate
sinners
.
For
sins
against
Light
and
Knowledge
,
presumptuous
and
repeated
Transgressions
,
such
for
which
there
was
no
sacrifice
appointed
under
the
Law
,
Numb.
15.30
.
2.
The
Severity
of
this
Judgment
may
be
argued
from
the
Subject
of
it
,
it
falls
upon
the
Soul
,
it
doth
especially
respect
that
,
as
its
immediate
Subject
.
The
dismal
Effects
of
it
reach
to
the
Soul
:
The
Beauty
and
Comeliness
of
the
Soul
is
hereby
spoiled
:
For
what
more
dismal
Spectacle
can
there
be
,
than
such
a
man
thus
left
of
God
?
The
Honour
and
Dignity
of
the
Soul
is
hereby
debased
;
for
men
given
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
are
almost
transformed
into
Beasts
.
3.
Because
the
most
dishonourable
Slavery
follows
upon
it
.
They
are
left
under
the
Power
and
Rage
of
their
own
Lusts
;
and
did
you
know
what
a
Slavery
that
is
,
you
would
rather
beg
of
God
that
you
might
fall
into
the
Hands
of
the
most
barbarous
and
cruel
Tyrant
in
the
World
,
than
to
be
left
under
the
Dominion
of
your
own
Lusts
.
4.
Because
they
are
left
to
walk
in
their
own
Counsels
,
as
the
fruit
of
their
being
given
up
to
their
own
Lusts
.
And
these
are
,
First
,
The
most
foolish
blind
Guides
that
can
be
,
that
fill
men
with
vain
Projects
and
Designs
.
As
the
rich
Fool
in
the
Gospel
,
Luke
.
16.
He
would
pull
down
his
Barns
,
and
build
greater
,
and
say
,
Soul
take
thine
ease
,
&c.
Secondly
,
They
are
false
and
treacherous
Guides
.
They
promise
Peace
and
Happiness
,
but
procure
nothing
like
it
;
Promise
Ease
and
Rest
,
but
can
by
no
means
perform
what
they
promise
;
but
leave
a
man
to
wander
and
go
astray
unto
his
own
Destruction
,
Prov.
5.31
.
Thirdly
,
They
are
cruel
and
pernicious
Guides
,
as
well
as
deceitful
ones
.
Such
Persons
will
walk
in
the
way
that
leads
to
Destruction
:
He
that
walketh
after
his
own
Counsel
,
will
find
the
End
of
that
way
to
be
Death
.
Lastly
,
The
Severity
of
this
Judgment
will
appear
,
in
that
it
can
never
be
inflicted
but
in
Anger
.
This
is
the
Fruit
of
divine
Wrath.
All
other
Calamities
and
Afflictions
may
be
the
Fruit
of
Love
,
may
be
sanctified
for
our
good
,
may
turn
to
our
Advantage
:
But
this
Calamity
has
no
such
Original
,
and
no
such
Effect
.
A
man
may
be
given
up
to
Satan
for
the
Destruction
of
the
Flesh
,
that
the
Soul
may
be
saved
;
But
to
be
given
up
to
sin
is
a
thousand
times
worse
,
because
that
is
the
Fruit
of
Divine
Anger
,
in
order
to
the
Damnation
of
the
Soul
.
Here
God
wounds
like
an
Enemy
,
and
like
a
cruel
one
:
And
we
may
boldly
say
,
God
never
punished
any
Man
or
Woman
,
with
this
Spiritual
Judgment
,
in
Kindness
and
Love
.
The
Third
Sermon
.
Psalm
LXXXI
.
12.
So
I
gave
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
lusts
:
and
they
walked
in
their
own
Counsels
.
UPON
the
Rehearsal
of
some
terrible
Threatning
,
when
Judgment
is
denounced
,
or
signified
to
be
approaching
,
but
the
particular
Persons
are
not
named
,
who
are
to
be
the
Subjects
of
it
,
we
may
use
the
Words
of
the
Prophet
Daniel
,
chap.
4.29
.
Before
he
opened
to
the
King
the
Import
and
sense
of
his
ominous
Dream
;
The
Dream
be
to
them
that
hate
thee
,
O
King
!
and
the
Interpretation
thereof
unto
thine
.
Enemies
.
But
such
is
the
Severity
and
Horrour
of
this
threatned
Judgment
in
the
Text
,
that
we
should
not
,
we
ought
not
to
wish
so
much
Evil
to
our
worst
Enemies
;
but
do
what
we
can
to
prevent
it
.
For
of
all
Calamities
that
can
be
threatned
,
or
inflicted
in
this
World
,
what
can
be
worse
than
for
a
Man
to
be
given
up
to
his
own
Lusts
,
and
left
to
walk
in
his
own
Counsels
?
Two
or
three
things
we
may
observe
by
way
of
general
Inference
,
before
I
speak
to
some
particular
Cases
and
Questions
that
relate
hereto
.
1.
HOW
Much
to
be
pitied
is
the
Ignorance
and
Folly
of
sinners
,
that
are
afraid
of
any
other
Calamity
more
than
this
.
I
gave
'em
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
is
a
thousand
times
worse
than
if
God
had
given
'em
up
to
the
Syrians
to
spoil
'em
,
or
to
their
most
enraged
Adversaries
to
oppress
'em
.
Men
are
ready
to
quake
and
tremble
,
and
their
Hearts
to
be
moved
,
as
the
Trees
of
the
Wood
are
moved
with
the
Wind
,
if
a
thick
or
dark
Cloud
hover
over
them
,
as
to
publick
or
private
Affairs
.
If
their
Health
and
Ease
,
their
Liberties
and
Estates
,
their
outward
Priviledges
and
Advantages
are
threatened
and
endangered
,
they
presently
apprehend
themselves
concerned
to
look
about
them
,
and
do
their
utmost
to
prevent
it
.
But
if
sin
be
the
greatest
Enemy
,
to
be
given
up
to
sin
is
the
greatest
Judgment
,
and
should
be
more
feared
than
Plague
,
or
Pestilence
,
or
Famine
,
or
War
,
or
any
of
those
Calamities
that
Nations
and
Persons
do
commonly
dread
as
most
Formidable
Evils
.
2.
Is
it
the
greatest
Judgment
to
be
given
up
to
our
own
Hearts
Lusts
?
How
unreasonable
is
the
Displeasure
and
Anger
of
Men
at
the
sharpest
Methods
of
Divine
Grace
,
that
would
bring
them
to
Repentance
,
and
thereby
prevent
this
sad
Catastrophe
?
The
most
smart
Reproofs
of
the
Word
;
the
most
close
Exhortations
,
and
Admonitions
of
Ministers
,
that
are
now
accounted
troublesome
,
the
most
pungent
and
uneasy
Convictions
of
Conscience
,
and
the
most
afflictive
Rebukes
of
Providence
too
,
that
have
this
merciful
Design
and
Tendency
,
they
are
the
real
Effects
of
Kindness
,
as
preventive
of
a
greater
Mischief
,
even
this
,
of
being
left
of
God
,
and
given
up
to
our
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
What
Enemies
therefore
are
they
to
their
own
Interest
,
who
use
such
Language
as
that
of
the
Stubborn
Jews
,
Isa.
30.10
.
saying
to
the
Prophets
,
Prophecie
not
unto
us
Right
things
,
speak
unto
us
smooth
things
,
and
prophecie
Deceits
.
Till
God
in
righteous
Judgment
resolve
,
and
say
,
as
he
did
afterwards
,
Ezek
3.26
.
Thou
shalt
no
longer
be
unto
them
a
Reprover
,
Thou
shalt
be
dumb
,
and
thy
Tongue
cleave
to
the
Roof
of
thy
mouth
,
for
they
are
a
rebellious
House
.
When
such
as
would
convince
and
awaken
Men
by
necessary
Reproofs
,
are
disliked
,
and
their
Preaching
reckoned
a
Burden
,
because
the
Earth
is
tormented
with
their
Words
,
Revel.
11.10
.
3.
HOW
wretched
and
dangerous
is
their
Mistake
,
who
think
their
Case
good
,
because
their
Consciences
now
trouble
them
no
more
.
They
have
sinned
themselves
into
such
hardness
of
Heart
,
and
searedness
of
Conscience
,
under
such
Judicial
Blindness
and
stupidity
,
that
the
sin
,
which
was
formerly
burdensom
as
a
Mountain
,
they
now
feel
not
;
they
bewail
it
not
.
Conscience
,
that
did
rebuke
them
,
is
now
silent
and
fast
asleep
.
All
things
are
at
peace
with
them
,
they
say
,
and
they
are
glad
of
it
,
and
so
is
the
Devil
too
.
God
lets
them
prosper
in
the
World
,
they
have
no
rub
in
their
way
,
to
Hell
.
But
in
the
mean
time
he
hath
given
them
over
,
that
they
shall
not
be
smitten
any
more
:
that
they
shall
not
be
troubled
with
the
strivings
of
his
Spirit
any
more
.
Neither
Word
nor
Rod
shall
do
them
good
more
.
They
applaud
themselves
in
this
,
and
rejoyce
in
it
:
But
if
to
be
given
up
to
our
own
Hearts
Lusts
be
the
greatest
Judgment
,
there
is
no
storm
more
dismal
than
such
a
Calm
,
or
more
to
be
dreaded
.
No
Trouble
but
is
better
than
such
Peace
:
No
Sickness
but
is
preferable
to
such
Health
:
No
Sorrow
but
is
rather
to
be
chosen
than
such
mad
Joy
.
Doubt
.
1.
BUT
because
I
would
not
break
the
bruised
Reed
,
or
quench
the
smoking
Flax
,
or
sadden
the
Hearts
of
those
whom
God
would
not
have
saddened
;
but
rather
awaken
the
Joy
,
and
assist
the
Consolation
,
and
promote
the
spiritual
Peace
of
those
unto
whom
it
doth
of
right
belong
:
I
shall
therefore
consider
some
of
the
Doubts
,
and
Objections
of
several
weak
,
or
melancholy
,
dejected
Christians
,
who
on
all
Occasions
argue
against
themselves
,
and
conclude
hardly
of
their
own
State
,
from
every
word
of
Threatening
and
Terrour
against
the
Ungodly
:
As
melancholy
People
can
hardly
hear
any
Disease
talked
of
or
described
,
but
they
presently
imagin
they
have
some
of
the
Symptoms
of
it
in
their
Case
.
WHAT
I
have
said
of
the
Nature
and
Terrour
of
this
Judgment
,
and
of
the
Methods
o●
Divine
Justice
in
the
Execution
of
it
,
may
make
some
ready
to
say
.
I
fear
lest
God
hath
given
me
up
,
for
I
have
resisted
many
of
the
strivings
of
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
and
now
I
think
he
doth
not
strive
with
me
any
more
.
I
have
been
under
the
Rod
,
and
not
bettered
by
it
,
the
Spirit
of
slumber
and
of
a
deep
sleep
seems
to
possess
me
.
I
have
outstood
many
Calls
to
Repentance
,
and
stifled
many
Convictions
of
Conscience
,
and
contradicted
many
good
Resolutions
,
and
broken
many
Vows
and
Promises
;
I
have
backsliden
and
revolted
from
God
after
very
hopeful
Beginnings
:
Therefore
the
Punishment
of
Apostates
may
Justly
be
inflected
on
me
.
I
,
that
have
casted
the
good
Word
of
God
,
and
of
the
Powers
of
the
World
to
come
,
may
well
fear
being
left
of
God
,
so
as
it
should
be
impossible
for
me
to
be
renewed
by
Repentance
,
Heb.
6.7
.
My
Day
of
Grace
is
over
,
saith
Another
,
my
accepted
Time
past
,
there
is
nothing
so
bad
but
I
may
Justly
fear
it
:
For
I
find
I
grow
worse
and
worse
,
instead
of
making
progress
in
Holiness
:
whereas
if
my
Grace
were
true
it
would
be
growing
.
But
I
find
my
Corruptions
exceeding
strong
,
my
heart
very
dead
and
hard
,
&c.
Doubtless
God
has
withdrawn
his
Spirit
from
me
,
will
Another
say
,
I
have
not
the
Covenant
Blessing
of
a
soft
Heart
,
a
Heart
of
Flesh
;
I
cannot
weep
a
Tear
for
my
sins
,
as
once
I
could
:
I
am
good
for
nothing
,
unfit
for
any
spiritual
Duty
;
None
in
the
World
have
such
a
treacherous
vile
abominable
Heart
as
I
have
,
I
am
afraid
God
has
given
me
over
;
I
do
not
know
but
I
may
have
sinned
the
sin
unto
Death
,
the
unpardonable
sin
,
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
which
shall
never
be
forgiven
.
Answ.
THIS
being
a
complicated
Case
,
comprehending
the
objections
of
several
People
,
wherein
are
some
things
that
deserve
Pity
,
and
others
that
need
Reproof
;
there
being
somewhat
very
sad
in
it
,
and
somewhat
very
faulty
too
;
It
is
manifest
that
my
Reply
must
be
mixed
:
It
must
in
part
be
monitory
and
reprehensive
,
and
in
part
consolatory
.
For
Reproof
and
Counsel
are
necessary
,
as
well
as
Encouragment
and
Comfort
.
I
shall
endeavour
to
intermix
both
;
in
the
following
particulars
,
by
way
of
Answer
.
1.
CONSIDER
,
That
to
be
under
very
great
Darkness
,
Doubts
,
and
Fears
,
so
as
to
create
much
Trouble
and
Torment
to
your selves
,
will
not
of
it self
conclude
your
Case
desperate
,
and
your
Souls
finally
forsaken
.
There
are
many
Reasons
for
Soul
trouble
,
the
Children
of
Light
may
walk
in
Darkness
.
You
may
Judge
and
condemn
your selves
for
Unbelievers
and
Reprobates
,
and
yet
unjustly
do
so
.
You
may
refuse
to
be
comforted
,
and
say
all
that
the
Devil
speaks
against
you
to
be
true
,
and
that
it
is
impossible
for
such
a
one
,
as
you
,
to
find
Mercy
:
And
yet
all
this
may
be
false
and
faulty
,
and
those
Clouds
may
afterwards
vanish
,
Light
appear
,
and
Joy
return
.
The
Examples
in
Scripture
,
and
the
Experience
of
every
Age
will
testifie
this
.
It
may
be
your
mistake
about
the
Nature
of
Faith
,
and
make
it
to
consist
in
Assurance
,
not
distinguishing
between
the
direct
and
the
reflex
Act
of
Faith
.
Whereas
if
true
Faith
consist
in
Assurance
,
and
without
Faith
there
is
no
salvation
;
A
Man
must
be
assured
of
his
Salvation
,
or
else
he
must
necessarily
be
damned
.
And
this
is
to
suppose
that
a
Man
must
First
be
sure
of
Heaven
,
before
he
can
be
capable
of
it
.
But
you
may
be
in
Christ
,
and
have
the
Image
of
Christ
,
and
the
Characters
of
his
Children
,
and
shall
be
kept
by
the
Power
of
God
unto
Salvation
;
though
for
a
time
you
may
distrust
,
and
despair
of
it
,
walk
mournfully
,
and
refuse
to
be
comforted
.
Your
own
Doubts
and
Fears
will
not
prove
that
you
are
given
over
,
but
rather
the
Contrary
.
For
,
II.
If
you
are
given
up
to
your
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
how
is
it
that
you
thus
mourn
,
and
greive
at
the
Apprehension
and
Fear
of
it
?
Do
you
not
value
his
Favour
more
than
Life
?
And
dread
his
Displeasure
more
than
Death
?
and
fear
nothing
more
than
that
God
should
forsake
you
?
And
is
it
likely
that
Such
are
left
of
God
,
who
hereby
discover
that
they
love
him
in
Sincerity
?
Your
very
Solicitude
,
and
Fear
,
and
Disquiet
,
lest
God
should
finally
reject
you
,
and
cast
you
off
,
is
an
Argument
that
he
hath
not
;
and
,
if
you
continue
of
this
Mind
,
that
he
never
will
.
Believe
it
,
O
doubting
Christian
,
if
thou
art
from
thy
Soul
unwilling
to
leave
God
,
and
of
all
things
in
the
World
dost
dread
and
deprecate
his
leaving
thee
,
He
hath
not
left
thee
,
or
given
thee
over
.
For
be
assured
of
this
,
God
never
did
,
or
will
forsake
any
,
but
those
who
first
f●rsake
him
,
and
are
unwilling
to
Return
.
Where
do
you
ever
find
,
or
how
can
it
possibly
be
,
that
such
a
Mans
Day
of
Grace
is
past
,
and
the
time
of
his
Visitation
over
,
that
God
hath
Judicially
left
him
,
and
given
him
up
,
who
values
the
Presence
of
God
,
and
fears
nothing
more
than
to
Sin
against
him
,
or
to
provoke
him
to
cast
him
off
?
Is
such
a
Man
lost
,
and
given
over
,
who
thirsteth
after
God
,
and
can
be
satisfied
with
nothing
short
of
him
?
Where
do
you
ever
find
,
that
God
did
ever
finally
leave
a
Man
,
and
leave
any
such
Grace
behind
him
?
Is
such
a
Man
lost
,
and
given
up
by
God
?
Who
prefers
the
Light
of
his
Countenance
before
Corn
,
and
Wine
,
and
Oil
,
and
all
the
Riches
,
Treasures
,
and
Honours
of
the
World
;
Who
had
rather
live
in
the
most
mean
miserable
afflictive
Condition
on
Earth
,
with
the
Love
and
Favour
of
God
,
than
enjoy
the
greatest
Abundance
of
all
things
without
it
.
I
shall
amplifie
this
more
presently
under
the
sixth
Head
.
III.
LET
me
ask
you
,
Are
you
not
resolved
to
hold
on
your
Fight
and
Warfare
against
sin
?
To
continue
and
maintain
your
Conflict
,
notwithstanding
all
your
Doubts
,
and
all
your
Complaints
?
You
may
sometimes
take
being
tempted
for
being
overcome
.
But
though
Temptations
have
been
too
prevalent
,
and
many
of
your
Resolutions
and
Purposes
against
sin
have
been
broken
;
Are
you
resolved
to
struggle
no
more
,
to
resist
no
longer
?
Dare
you
say
upon
serious
Deliberation
,
Well
,
now
I
see
my
Case
is
hopeless
,
I
will
use
no
more
Means
against
the
Devil
and
sin
,
I
will
pray
to
God
no
more
,
I
will
hear
,
and
read
his
Word
no
more
,
I
will
attend
upon
the
Ordinances
of
the
Gospel
no
longer
,
it
is
all
to
no
purpose
?
I
know
you
durst
not
say
this
,
nor
talk
at
this
rate
.
Besides
,
when
you
have
fallen
into
sin
through
the
Prevalency
of
a
Temtation
,
do
you
not
make
haste
to
rise
again
by
bitter
Repentance
?
Do
you
not
freely
confess
,
and
aggravate
your
sins
in
the
Presence
of
God
,
and
not
palliate
,
cover
,
or
excuse
them
?
Are
you
not
uneasy
,
and
restless
under
your
Declensions
?
Desirous
to
make
your
Peace
with
God
,
and
to
be
reconciled
through
Christ
?
Do
you
not
double
your
Guard
,
and
Watch
afterwards
?
Do
you
not
still
love
Holiness
,
and
the
Image
of
God
,
wherever
you
see
it
?
Do
you
not
check
,
and
chide
,
and
find
fault
with
your selves
,
for
your
ungrateful
Carriage
to
the
God
of
Love
?
Are
you
not
displeased
with
your selves
?
And
ashamed
of
your selves
?
And
glad
of
any
Help
and
Assistance
that
leads
to
your
Recovery
?
If
this
be
your
Case
,
be
assured
your
Day
of
Grace
is
not
past
,
you
are
not
left
of
God
.
IV.
YOU
say
,
you
cannot
weep
,
and
mourn
,
and
express
your
Repentance
,
as
formerly
,
and
as
some
others
you
know
do
;
Yet
consider
that
it
is
the
hatred
of
sin
and
watchfulness
against
it
,
that
is
the
truest
sign
of
Repentance
and
godly
sorrow
.
For
to
use
the
words
of
Mr.
B.
He
that
will
be
at
the
greatest
Cost
and
Pains
to
be
rid
of
sin
,
or
that
he
had
not
sinned
,
or
that
he
might
sin
no
more
,
though
he
have
not
such
command
of
Tears
as
Others
,
is
the
truest
Penitent
.
You
cannot
weep
for
sin
as
Others
,
but
you
would
give
all
the
World
to
be
rid
of
sin
;
you
could
wish
that
when
you
had
dishonoured
God
by
Sin
,
you
had
spent
that
time
in
Suffering
,
and
if
it
were
to
do
again
,
upon
the
same
Reasons
and
Inducements
,
you
would
not
do
it
.
And
if
you
might
but
please
and
obey
God
more
than
formerly
,
and
be
kept
from
disobeying
him
,
you
would
be
content
with
any
thing
Judge
your selves
by
this
.
Besides
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See
Dr:
Collings
Cordial
for
a
Fainting
Soul
,
part
1.
Serm.
2.
God
hath
not
told
us
just
what
degree
and
measure
of
Humiliation
and
Sorrow
for
sin
is
absolutely
needful
.
Some
have
more
,
and
others
less
even
of
true
Penitents
.
TAKE
heed
of
mistaking
the
Case
concerning
the
Day
of
Grace
being
over
,
and
sinners
being
finally
left
of
God
.
For
it
is
never
true
in
this
Life
,
that
any
are
so
left
of
God
,
and
their
Day
of
Grace
so
over
,
as
that
if
they
truly
repent
,
and
turn
to
him
,
he
will
not
accept
them
.
This
would
be
against
the
whole
tenour
of
the
Gospel
Covenant
:
For
whosoever
turns
to
God
by
true
Repentance
,
and
Faith
in
Jesus
Christ
,
shall
not
perish
but
have
eternal
Life
.
But
there
is
another
sense
of
such
Ex●ressions
,
that
is
,
when
men
have
so
●●ng
resisted
the
Spirit
,
and
refused
the
●ffers
of
Gods
Grace
,
and
rejected
the
Yoke
and
Government
of
Christ
,
that
God
resolves
to
let
them
alone
,
never
●o
give
them
the
prevailing
Grace
of
his
Spirit
,
but
in
righteous
Judgment
●o
abandon
them
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
to
walk
in
their
own
Counsels
.
Because
they
would
not
turn
at
my
Reproof
,
they
shall
call
,
but
I
will
not
answer
,
seek
me
earnestly
,
but
not
find
me
,
Prov.
1.28
.
If
men
harden
their
Hearts
,
and
will
not
hear
and
obey
the
voice
of
God
,
He
may
sware
in
his
Wrath
,
that
they
shall
not
enter
into
his
Rest
.
Heb.
3.11.15
,
18.
Num.
12.22
.
Ezek.
24.13
.
It
may
be
this
very
day
,
or
hour
while
now
thou
art
called
by
God
to
Turn
and
Live
,
if
thou
refuse
now
,
thy
Day
may
be
over
,
and
past
for
ever
.
To
morrow
God
may
say
,
Let
him
Alone
,
he
shall
not
be
purged
,
he
shall
dye
in
his
sins
.
Isa.
42.14
.
Hos.
4.17
.
This
is
a
possible
Case
,
but
who
can
tell
when
it
is
thus
?
How
can
this
be
known
of
particular
Persons
when
it
is
so
,
though
some
Approach
nearer
to
it
than
Others
?
How
can
it
positively
be
said
of
any
,
that
God
will
never
give
such
Persons
Repentance
unto
Life
?
You
may
be
sure
,
that
if
you
find
your
Hearts
Penitent
,
and
willing
to
return
to
him
,
that
it
doth
not
reach
you
:
It
is
not
your
Case
.
Therefore
,
VI.
YOU
that
thus
complain
and
fear
,
have
you
not
many
of
the
Fruits
of
the
Spirit
visible
,
and
manifest
in
you
?
Therefore
the
Spirit
of
Christ
hath
not
left
you
;
God
hath
not
given
you
over
.
Do
you
not
esteem
and
prize
the
GRACE
of
the
Gospel
?
Do
you
not
cry
to
Heaven
for
the
Spirit
of
Grace
?
Are
you
not
earnest
in
the
seeking
the
Spirit
of
Holiness
from
day
to
day
?
Whence
is
it
,
but
from
Grace
,
that
you
have
an
Heart
to
prize
and
seek
it
?
They
that
have
outstood
the
Day
of
Grace
,
they
despise
it
;
they
are
sunk
into
Carnality
,
and
Forgetfulness
of
God
;
they
are
insensible
,
and
stupid
,
and
unconcerned
about
his
Grace
.
But
for
you
that
value
it
,
and
seek
it
,
your
Day
of
Grace
cannot
be
over
:
For
it
is
from
Common
Grace
,
at
least
,
which
has
a
tendency
to
Special
,
and
shows
your
Case
not
to
be
like
those
,
who
are
given
up
of
God
.
But
with
most
that
thus
complain
,
there
is
more
than
common
Grace
:
There
are
Fruits
of
special
Grace
visible
.
You
do
unfeignedly
Repent
,
and
mourn
for
Sin
;
and
desire
to
give
up
your selves
to
Christ
.
Now
what
but
Grace
hath
made
you
to
see
the
evil
of
sin
,
and
hate
it
?
What
but
Grace
hath
made
you
willing
to
Accept
of
Christ
,
for
your
Lord
and
Saviour
?
What
but
Grace
has
made
you
value
the
Favour
of
God
,
and
a
holy
Heart
and
Life
,
above
all
the
World
?
How
is
it
that
you
are
brought
to
love
God
,
and
delight
in
him
,
to
seek
after
him
,
and
desire
to
please
him
,
and
to
be
troubled
that
you
can
do
so
no
more
,
no
better
?
For
such
as
you
to
say
your
Day
of
Grace
is
over
,
is
as
absurd
,
as
one
expresseth
it
,
as
for
a
Man
to
come
into
our
Assemblies
,
and
hear
the
Sermon
,
and
then
go
away
lamenting
that
the
Sermon
was
done
before
he
came
.
You
have
received
that
Grace
,
which
you
complain
you
want
.
You
know
't
is
otherwise
with
Many
.
Were
you
like
them
;
Did
you
find
your
Lusts
and
Passions
lead
you
captive
at
their
pleasure
;
had
you
no
Affections
stirring
after
God
,
and
Holiness
;
did
you
despise
Christ
,
and
all
Regard
and
Duty
to
him
;
and
could
not
perswade
your selves
to
hear
,
or
read
,
or
pray
,
or
think
of
another
World
,
or
do
any
thing
to
provide
for
it
,
you
might
then
fear
indeed
what
the
issue
of
your
Case
would
be
.
But
that
is
not
the
Case
I
am
now
speaking
of
;
nor
of
any
,
I
hope
,
that
now
hear
me
,
your
Appearance
in
these
Assemblies
is
some
sign
of
the
contrary
:
And
though
as
yet
you
may
be
unconverted
,
and
unsanctified
,
if
you
are
so
far
Awake
as
to
look
after
Reconciliation
to
God
;
if
you
are
touched
with
a
sense
of
your
sin
and
Danger
,
so
as
to
desire
to
be
assisted
,
and
enabled
to
Repent
,
and
turn
to
the
Lord
;
how
bad
soever
your
present
Case
be
,
it
is
not
Desperate
,
and
Remediless
:
For
you
are
in
the
way
of
Mercy
,
and
nothing
but
your
own
wilful
,
impenitent
refusal
of
Mercy
,
can
deprive
you
of
it
.
VII
.
As
to
the
Complaint
of
an
Hard
Heart
,
Remember
it
is
the
Impenitent
,
and
the
Vnperswadable
Heart
that
is
the
only
hard
Heart
you
need
to
fear
.
They
that
are
obstinate
,
and
disobedient
,
intractable
and
incorrigible
;
as
the
People
of
the
Jews
were
,
that
neither
regarded
the
divine
Threatnings
or
Promises
,
or
minded
his
Precepts
;
These
are
they
that
are
under
Hardness
of
Heart
.
This
is
the
Judgment
you
ought
to
fear
,
to
be
left
under
such
a
Temper
.
But
you
find
it
otherwise
with
you
,
that
the
voice
of
God
doth
awe
and
command
you
:
Your
Wills
are
bowed
unto
Subjection
to
him
;
you
are
willing
to
take
upon
you
the
Yoke
of
Christ
,
or
have
taken
it
;
and
renouncing
all
Competitors
,
you
desire
to
chuse
Christ
for
your
Lord
and
Saviour
,
and
that
God
in
Christ
should
be
your
Ruler
,
and
your
Felicity
.
If
it
be
thus
,
you
may
be
sure
you
are
not
left
of
God
.
VIII
.
THAT
Sight
of
sin
,
and
sense
of
the
Burthen
of
Corruption
,
which
you
complain
of
,
as
the
Ground
of
your
fear
,
will
argue
the
direct
contrary
to
what
you
alledge
it
for
.
For
sin
has
always
the
greatest
strength
where
the
sinner
is
the
least
Apprehensive
and
Sensible
of
it
.
There
is
more
hope
of
a
sensible
Patient
,
that
feels
his
sickness
,
and
complains
of
it
,
than
of
one
that
feels
nothing
,
but
is
confident
all
is
well
.
Is
not
their
Case
much
worse
,
who
feel
nothing
of
the
Evil
of
sin
,
to
whom
the
Power
of
it
is
not
troublesome
,
nor
the
Pollution
of
it
lothsom
,
nor
the
Guilt
of
it
butthenfom
?
While
it
is
otherwise
with
you
,
you
may
be
assured
you
are
not
given
over
,
and
left
of
God
,
and
your
Day
of
Grace
past
:
it
is
yet
Day
with
you
or
else
how
came
you
by
so
much
Light
to
see
the
evil
of
sin
more
than
formerly
and
to
see
so
many
things
to
be
sin
,
which
before
you
did
not
?
Though
there
may
and
will
be
a
Conflict
between
Flesh
and
Spirit
,
Corruption
and
Grace
,
in
the
best
,
while
in
this
World
;
yet
which
Party
dost
thou
side
with
?
Which
has
thy
most
willing
Consent
?
Which
way
is
thy
prevailing
Desire
,
Love
,
and
Choice
?
Dost
thou
not
bewail
the
Body
of
sin
and
Death
?
And
wish
to
be
delivered
from
Corruption
more
perfectly
?
To
gain
a
more
intire
Victory
?
Dost
thou
not
watch
,
and
wrestle
,
and
strive
,
and
pray
against
it
from
day
to
day
?
Is
this
the
true
state
of
thy
Case
?
Then
never
think
thou
art
left
of
God
.
As
to
Some
of
you
,
I
may
go
further
;
and
desire
you
to
look
back
upon
your
former
Humiliations
for
sin
,
when
First
you
turned
to
God
.
Though
all
have
not
the
same
sensible
Degree
of
Humiliation
;
yet
hath
not
the
Spirit
of
Grace
convinced
you
of
the
Holiness
and
Equity
of
the
Law
of
God
?
And
of
your
own
wretched
,
accursed
Condition
under
the
Guilt
of
sin
?
Have
you
not
been
brought
,
to
tremble
at
the
thoughts
of
his
righteous
Vengence
?
So
as
to
disrelish
all
the
Pleasures
of
this
World
,
by
reason
of
the
sense
of
sin
;
seeing
no
way
out
of
this
Perplexity
,
but
by
the
free
,
and
unconceivable
Mercy
of
God
in
Christ
;
and
therefore
Renouncing
all
things
that
might
separate
between
Christ
and
thee
,
ready
to
part
with
all
thy
Lusts
,
and
Pleasures
,
and
Profits
,
and
Honours
,
Thou
wert
made
willing
to
accept
of
his
Mercy
on
his
own
Terms
;
crying
earnestly
for
pardoning
,
and
sanctifying
Grace
,
acknowledging
thy
Unworthiness
of
the
least
Favour
;
owning
the
righteousness
of
God
,
if
he
should
condemn
thee
;
and
yet
,
upon
the
Invitation
and
Call
of
the
Gospel
,
looking
up
to
his
Mercy-seat
with
Hope
,
Resolving
there
to
anchor
and
take
no
Denial
.
Now
after
all
this
,
and
the
Covenant
Dedication
of
your selves
to
God
in
Christ
,
that
followed
upon
it
,
and
some
Calmness
and
stability
of
Soul
consequent
thereto
,
will
you
question
all
again
?
Because
Corruption
is
not
quite
mortified
,
nor
Sin
quite
destroyed
?
Even
that
sense
of
remaining
Sin
that
you
make
the
matter
of
your
Objection
against
your selves
,
is
an
Argument
for
you
,
and
will
conclude
the
Contrary
to
what
you
alledge
it
for
.
IX
.
THO
You
cannot
say
so
much
,
as
to
present
sense
,
of
your
Hatred
of
sin
and
Loathing
of
it
,
as
you
desire
;
yet
examine
your selves
as
to
the
Sins
of
Others
,
and
what
sense
you
have
of
the
Dishonour
of
God
by
them
.
We
may
sometimes
gather
matter
of
Comfort
this
way
,
concerning
our
own
Sincerity
,
and
Love
to
God
,
when
we
cannot
so
well
have
it
nearer
home
.
As
bad
as
thou
art
,
or
thinkest
thy self
to
be
:
Art
thou
not
tender
of
the
Honour
of
God
?
Art
thou
not
concerned
for
his
Interest
and
Glory
?
Doth
not
thy
soul
tremble
,
and
thine
Heart
ake
when
the
Being
of
God
is
denied
,
or
his
Sacred
Name
blasphemed
,
or
the
Glory
of
the
Mediator
Struck
at
,
and
the
Authority
of
his
Gospel
questioned
,
by
the
Atheists
,
and
Saduces
,
and
Infidels
of
the
Age
?
Or
the
Progress
of
it
obstracted
?
Doth
not
thy
Heart
rise
within
thee
,
if
thou
happen
into
wicked
Company
,
where
the
Word
of
God
,
his
Institutions
,
his
Ministers
,
and
Servants
are
vilified
and
reproached
,
and
bold
Impieties
vented
,
and
vile
Impurities
boasted
of
?
&c.
X.
BUT
I
do
not
Grow
,
I
rather
wax
worse
,
will
some
say
.
As
to
that
,
Consider
,
that
though
there
be
Precepts
,
Promises
,
and
Examples
of
growing
in
Grace
,
that
shew
what
is
Gods
usual
way
,
and
the
Proper
Tendency
of
the
Spiritual
Life
;
yet
those
Promises
are
not
so
Absolute
,
without
any
Condition
,
as
that
there
is
no
true
Believer
who
doth
not
alwaies
grow
in
Grace
:
For
Experience
shews
,
that
some
decline
and
lose
their
first
Fervour
,
and
need
to
be
awakened
to
Repentance
.
The
Promises
of
Growth
and
Faithfulness
are
not
absolute
,
but
depend
on
the
Improvement
of
Grace
received
,
and
the
Performance
of
many
Duties
,
with
great
watchfulness
and
Diligence
in
our
whole
Christian
Course
.
And
many
Christians
,
live
not
up
to
the
Condition
of
the
Accomplishment
of
such
Promises
,
as
concern
the
Growth
and
thriving
of
Spiritual
Life
.
They
decay
,
and
decline
through
their
own
Carlesness
,
and
Negligence
.
Sensible
Affections
be
sure
,
and
vigorous
Encrease
in
that
respect
,
is
not
the
true
Measure
,
whereby
to
Judge
of
growth
in
Grace
.
For
different
Ages
,
and
Tempers
,
and
Circumstances
of
our
condition
in
the
world
will
make
a
great
Difference
in
sensible
Affections
.
You
may
grow
in
Grace
,
by
a
more
Judicious
Esteem
,
and
value
of
God
and
Holiness
,
Love
to
Christ
and
his
Grace
,
and
Glory
,
so
as
it
may
be
harder
for
the
Devil
to
draw
you
off
from
God
,
than
before
;
even
when
you
think
you
do
not
grow
,
you
may
be
more
stable
and
resolved
,
though
not
so
lively
and
affectionate
.
And
the
decay
of
natural
strength
,
and
vigor
of
parts
by
old
age
or
sickness
,
may
make
a
Difference
with
some
.
Your
Humility
,
your self
denial
,
and
Patience
may
encrease
,
when
you
think
otherwise
.
And
he
who
grows
more
humble
thrives
in
every
other
Grace
,
whether
he
believe
it
,
and
take
notice
of
it
or
no.
But
if
you
are
declin'd
,
the
Remedy
must
be
to
Awake
,
and
to
use
Gods
appointed
Means
to
make
you
,
grow
in
Grace
,
and
in
the
Knowledge
of
our
Lord
and
Saviour
Jesus
Christ
.
You
cannot
thereupon
conclude
that
you
have
no
Grace
,
much
less
that
you
are
left
of
God
,
and
given
over
.
Such
as
enquire
not
whether
they
grow
or
decay
,
who
have
little
or
no
Concern
about
their
own
Case
as
to
these
things
,
have
most
reason
to
fear
it
of
themselves
,
whilst
such
as
do
really
grow
,
for
a
time
,
may
not
discern
it
.
And
sometimes
others
may
observe
it
,
when
they
themselves
disown
it
,
or
perceive
it
not
.
But
if
you
are
under
some
declension
,
Remember
the
cause
,
that
it
is
from
sloth
and
negligence
in
the
use
of
God's
appointed
means
for
Encrease
;
from
the
want
of
daily
Mortification
of
sin
,
and
Watchfulness
against
it
;
from
countenacing
some
Lust
,
so
that
its
power
is
encreased
,
suffering
the
Love
of
the
World
to
steal
upon
you
,
and
conforming
to
it
;
giving
way
to
Formality
,
and
carelessness
in
divine
Worship
,
and
the
Duties
of
Religion
;
and
Apply
the
Remedy
by
Repentance
,
Mortification
,
and
doing
your
first
works
,
Rev.
3.1,2
.
But
make
not
hasty
,
unjust
Conclusions
concerning
your
final
state
.
XI
.
MOREOVER
Consider
,
there
may
be
much
more
of
Blame
and
Faultiness
,
of
Guilt
and
sin
,
in
your
unbelieving
Objections
,
and
Despondency
,
than
you
are
aware
of
.
Therefore
while
you
complain
of
sin
,
take
heed
you
do
not
encrease
,
and
add
to
your
sin
by
disobeying
the
command
of
God
to
Believe
and
Hope
.
God
hath
made
Hope
a
positive
Duty
,
and
Gods
Command
were
enough
,
if
there
were
nothing
else
in
your
Case
.
Your
Despair
,
as
if
your
Case
were
desperate
,
and
your
Condition
hopeless
,
that
God
had
finally
given
you
over
,
is
a
plain
sin
:
And
will
you
justifie
it
?
He
obliges
you
to
hope
;
he
hath
not
bid
the
Devil
or
the
damned
to
hope
,
as
he
hath
commanded
you
.
It
is
by
hope
we
are
saved
;
and
he
takes
Pleasure
in
them
that
hope
in
his
Mercy
.
But
to
convince
you
of
this
sin
,
consider
what
a
Representation
of
the
blessed
God
your
Objection
makes
,
as
if
he
were
not
a
God
of
Grace
,
pardoning
Inquity
,
Transgression
and
Sin
,
upon
Repentance
,
which
is
what
he
hath
declared
concerning
himself
.
Now
is
it
not
a
sin
to
believe
God
to
be
such
an
one
,
as
is
directly
contrary
to
the
Character
he
has
given
of
himself
?
That
though
I
never
so
much
desire
his
Favour
,
and
value
it
as
my
Life
;
though
I
desire
to
my
utmost
to
comport
with
his
Mind
and
Will
,
so
far
as
he
hath
,
or
shall
reveal
it
to
me
;
to
believe
that
yet
he
hath
cast
me
off
,
or
will
cast
me
off
:
What
a
sad
Account
of
God
does
this
give
?
What
a
Reproach
upon
him
would
this
bring
?
Is
not
this
to
take
the
Devils
Representation
of
him
to
be
truer
than
his
own
?
There
is
likewise
further
sin
in
your
Objection
,
and
Doubt
,
by
misrepresenting
the
Tenor
of
the
Gospel
Covenant
.
Whereas
that
says
,
Take
God
in
Christ
for
your
God
,
and
give
up
your selves
to
be
his
,
and
he
is
,
and
will
be
yours
;
you
add
something
more
out
of
your
own
Head
as
necessary
,
and
so
alter
the
Terms
of
Life
and
Death
.
And
what
is
this
but
to
make
a
new
Gospel
?
The
Blessed
God
hath
said
,
on
such
Terms
Souls
shall
be
saved
,
you
add
others
as
necessary
:
And
say
,
I
shall
never
be
saved
,
unless
it
be
thus
and
thus
with
me
;
which
God
hath
never
said
.
Though
I
do
accept
God
for
my
God
,
and
Christ
for
my
Saviour
,
and
consent
to
be
his
,
and
endeavour
to
please
him
,
yet
he
will
not
save
me
.
This
is
to
give
God
the
Lye
,
and
there
is
more
Guilt
in
it
than
we
think
.
Therefore
.
XII
.
LAY
this
as
a
Foundation
Truth
,
and
keep
it
,
That
you
can
never
be
more
willing
to
Come
to
Christ
,
than
he
is
to
Receive
you
.
If
you
think
otherwise
,
your
seeming
Humility
in
Doubting
hath
much
of
Pride
in
it
.
If
you
are
willing
to
have
Christ
and
his
Grace
on
his
Terms
,
He
is
yours
.
If
you
are
willing
to
have
Christ
for
your
Saviour
,
and
your
King
,
to
receive
him
as
Christ
Jesus
the
Lord
;
and
the
blessed
Spirit
as
your
Sanctifier
;
and
had
rather
have
his
Favour
,
and
Love
,
and
his
holy
Image
,
than
all
the
riches
of
this
World
;
you
are
then
His
:
If
your
Willingness
be
prevailing
,
and
more
than
your
Unwillingness
.
For
Christ
,
be
assured
,
is
Willing
;
He
hath
first
shown
his
Willingness
,
He
dyed
to
manifest
it
,
and
hath
drawn
up
,
procured
,
and
published
a
Covenant
of
Grace
,
wherein
he
declares
his
Consent
,
and
calls
for
yours
.
Therefore
if
there
be
not
a
Covenant
Union
unto
Eternal
Life
between
him
and
you
,
it
is
through
your
Refusal
,
not
his
.
Now
if
you
are
not
willing
to
Accept
his
offered
Grace
,
to
be
sanctified
by
him
,
and
blessed
in
him
;
why
do
you
complain
,
for
the
want
of
that
which
you
would
not
have
,
and
are
not
willing
of
?
For
I
tell
you
again
,
He
is
willing
to
Receive
,
and
Accept
you
,
and
to
be
Yours
in
an
Everlasting
Covenant
never
to
be
broken
,
if
you
are
sincerely
Willing
to
be
His
Covenant
Servants
.
Moreover
,
XII
.
AS
to
the
Doubt
concerning
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
I
think
such
as
make
that
Objection
do
not
well
understand
wherein
it
lyes
.
Read
the
12th
of
Matthew
throughout
,
and
Mark
3.28
,
29
,
30.
And
you
will
find
that
the
Sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
never
to
be
forgiven
,
was
to
this
purpose
;
That
when
,
notwithstanding
the
Miracles
of
Christ
,
which
confirmed
his
divine
Commission
,
and
proved
him
to
be
the
Messiah
,
They
who
saw
those
Miracles
of
Christ
,
and
could
not
deny
them
to
be
true
;
yet
did
not
believe
him
to
be
the
Son
of
God
,
or
his
Doctrine
to
be
true
,
though
attested
by
those
Miracles
.
But
rather
than
own
him
to
be
the
Christ
,
they
blasphemously
ascribed
his
Miracles
unto
the
Agency
'
of
the
Devil
,
the
unclean
Spirit
;
That
were
wrought
by
the
Power
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
They
therefore
who
own
Christ
to
be
the
Messiah
,
and
his
Gospel
to
be
true
;
who
do
not
take
him
for
a
Deceiver
,
but
acknowledge
him
as
their
Lord
,
and
honour
and
worship
him
as
the
Christ
of
God
;
they
are
not
Guilty
of
the
sin
there
mentioned
,
called
The
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
.
I
deny
not
but
some
may
be
guilty
in
our
days
of
such
Sins
,
as
make
Approaches
unto
this
,
and
are
somewhat
like
it
;
As
when
,
notwithstanding
clear
Evidence
of
the
Truth
of
the
Gospel
,
Men
resist
the
Light
,
and
rebel
against
it
,
and
turn
open
Apostates
,
and
Persecutors
,
if
not
down
right
professed
Infidels
.
But
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
there
described
by
the
Evangelist
,
seems
to
imply
a
Man's
taking
Christ
for
a
Deceiver
.
Be
sure
none
who
own
the
Gospel
to
be
true
,
and
Christ
to
be
the
Saviour
of
fallen
sinners
,
are
guilty
of
that
Sin
,
though
they
may
make
dangerous
Approaches
to
it
.
Much
less
are
they
Guilty
of
it
,
who
fear
the
guilt
of
this
sin
:
But
such
doubting
fearful
Persons
,
who
make
this
Question
concerning
themselves
,
because
of
some
blasphemous
Suggestions
of
Satan
,
&c.
They
would
have
been
afraid
of
the
Guilt
of
any
other
sin
as
well
as
of
this
,
if
they
had
ever
heard
,
or
read
such
dreadful
things
declared
against
any
Other
sin
,
as
against
This
:
But
they
seem
not
to
understand
the
Nature
of
it
.
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*
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*
See
Mr.
Howe
's
Append.
to
Redeemer's
Tears
.
I
do
not
deny
but
there
may
also
be
an
equivalent
Evidence
of
the
Divinity
of
Christ
,
and
of
the
Truth
of
the
Gospel
,
that
the
Infidels
of
our
Age
may
sin
against
;
Equivalent
,
I
say
,
to
what
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
who
where
guilty
of
this
sin
,
did
sin
against
.
And
therefore
our
modern
Deists
,
who
reproach
the
blessed
Redeemer
,
and
the
Holy
Spirit
of
God
,
had
need
look
to
it
,
lest
they
approach
unto
the
unpardonable
sin
,
and
God
should
give
them
over
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
.
But
as
to
poor
doubting
Christians
,
that
fear
they
are
guilty
of
the
sin
against
the
Holy
Ghost
,
mentioned
in
the
Gospel
,
It
is
plain
enough
,
that
they
fearing
the
Guilt
of
it
are
not
in
danger
of
it
for
the
present
,
or
like
to
be
so
.
LASTLY
,
To
bring
the
whole
matter
to
a
short
Issue
,
and
to
put
it
out
of
question
,
that
your
day
of
Grace
is
not
over
,
and
that
God
hath
not
left
you
,
or
given
you
over
to
your
own
Hearts
Lusts
;
I
do
now
tender
you
the
Grace
and
Salvation
purchased
by
Christ
in
his
Name
.
If
now
you
are
heartily
willing
to
accept
it
,
the
Case
is
determined
:
and
determined
in
the
best
manner
that
can
be
.
Therefore
to
put
all
out
of
doubt
,
Accept
the
present
offer
of
Gods
Grace
,
which
is
this
day
made
you
.
Oppose
not
the
greatness
of
your
sins
past
,
or
the
Aggravations
of
your
present
Unworthiness
,
but
penitently
,
and
humbly
,
and
thankfully
accept
the
Pardon
that
is
offered
you
in
the
Name
of
Christ
.
Do
you
think
,
in
contradiction
to
the
whole
Gospel
,
that
your
sins
are
so
many
,
or
so
great
,
that
Christ
did
not
,
could
not
satisfie
for
them
,
and
that
he
will
not
forgive
them
,
if
you
Repent
,
and
turn
to
God
,
and
Believe
on
the
Name
of
his
Son
?
You
are
condemned
by
the
Law
;
Christ
came
to
save
sinners
,
and
such
as
were
lost
;
and
he
requires
no
Worthiness
,
or
Price
in
your
Hands
,
but
that
you
unfeignedly
Consent
to
be
his
,
to
accept
an
offered
Saviour
,
and
his
Salvation
according
to
the
Ends
and
Uses
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace
:
That
he
may
illuminate
and
teach
you
,
sanctifie
and
guide
you
,
govern
and
rule
you
,
by
his
Word
and
Spirit
.
This
is
the
Condition
of
your
Title
to
the
Blessings
of
the
Covenant
,
and
consequently
must
be
the
Evidence
of
your
Title
,
and
should
be
a
satisfactory
one
.
But
if
you
are
Unwilling
to
forsake
sin
,
and
return
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ
;
if
you
are
unwilling
to
receive
him
as
your
Teacher
,
Sanctifier
,
Saviour
and
Lord
;
you
have
reason
to
doubt
your
state
indeed
,
or
rather
the
matter
is
past
doubt
,
you
are
unsanctified
,
and
as
yet
unreconciled
to
God
.
Whoever
theresore
,
upon
the
account
of
their
former
Resistance
of
the
Spirit
,
stifling
Convictions
,
violating
their
good
Resolutions
,
&c.
Do
question
their
State
,
whether
God
hath
not
given
them
over
;
yet
let
them
Consider
they
are
now
invited
,
and
entreated
to
put
it
out
of
question
that
their
Day
of
Grace
is
not
past
,
by
letting
this
be
Their
Accepted
time
,
the
Day
of
their
Salvation
;
by
now
heartily
accepting
an
offered
Saviour
,
and
giving
up
themselves
unto
him
.
And
then
,
notwithstanding
all
your
former
Refusals
of
his
Mercy
and
Grace
,
if
now
at
last
you
will
return
and
submit
,
and
take
his
yoke
upon
you
;
there
is
Ease
,
and
Rest
,
and
Pardon
,
and
Comfort
,
and
Life
,
Eternal
Life
to
be
had
.
To
conclude
,
Instead
of
Doubting
,
and
Complaining
,
and
questioning
any
longer
,
Reduce
all
that
which
is
Doubtful
with
you
,
to
that
which
is
Plain
and
Certain
.
It
is
certain
that
God
hath
sent
his
Son
into
the
World
to
save
sinners
;
It
is
certain
that
you
are
some
of
those
lost
,
miserable
,
guilty
Creatures
that
need
this
Salvation
;
It
is
certain
that
he
has
published
the
glad
Tidings
of
the
Gospel
to
such
,
that
whoever
believeth
shall
be
saved
;
Is
is
certain
that
God
cannot
lye
,
it
is
therefore
inconsistent
with
his
Nature
,
that
such
as
come
to
him
in
the
Exercise
of
Repentance
towards
God
,
and
Faith
in
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
should
not
be
Accepted
with
him
.
Therefore
dispute
,
and
question
,
and
complain
no
longer
how
matters
have
been
,
or
how
they
are
with
you
,
but
come
in
upon
the
Call
and
Invitation
of
the
Gospel
Grace
:
Remember
the
Covenant
thou
hast
made
with
God
the
Father
,
Son
,
and
Holy
Ghost
in
Baptism
;
Resign
,
yield
and
give
up
thy self
with
all
thy
Heart
and
Soul
to
be
his
,
resolving
that
thou
wilt
throw
thy self
into
the
Arms
of
his
Love
,
and
Mercy
,
because
it
is
the
Command
of
God
that
you
believe
on
his
Son
;
Resolve
that
through
his
Mercy
and
Grace
,
by
the
help
of
his
Spirit
of
Grace
,
you
will
now
do
so
,
whatever
come
of
it
.
Do
not
perplex
your selves
about
the
Question
,
whether
you
did
it
not
formerly
,
four
,
or
five
,
or
ten
years
ago
?
But
do
it
again
;
Blessing
God
that
you
may
now
do
it
;
that
he
has
not
repealed
his
Gospel
,
and
that
he
never
will
repeal
it
to
the
end
of
the
World
.
I
may
Accept
of
his
Son
now
,
as
well
as
so
many
years
ago
.
Blessed
be
God
,
the
Invitation
,
the
Command
,
the
Promise
is
the
same
now
as
it
was
then
;
And
to
as
many
as
Receive
him
,
he
will
give
the
Priviledge
to
become
the
Sons
of
God
,
even
to
as
many
as
believe
on
his
Name
.
Blessed
be
God
for
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
Covenant
of
Grace
.
The
Fourth
Sermon
.
Psalm
LXXXI
.
12.
So
I
gave
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
lufts
:
and
they
walked
in
their
own
Counsels
.
I
Come
now
,
in
the
last
place
,
to
consider
the
Case
of
such
,
who
make
dangerous
Approaches
towards
such
a
Judgment
;
Who
have
provoked
God
to
that
degree
,
that
it
would
be
no
wonder
if
he
should
give
them
up
;
yea
,
concerning
whom
,
there
is
Reason
to
fear
it
,
if
speedy
Repentance
do
not
prevent
.
HAVING
therefore
,
spoken
1.
To
the
Nature
of
this
Judgment
,
And
Secondly
,
considered
the
steps
and
Methods
,
whereby
God
does
ordinarily
inflict
it
,
And
Thirdly
,
the
dreadful
Severity
of
it
,
in
Comparison
of
any
other
Judgment
in
this
World
;
I
proceeded
to
the
Case
of
those
who
Fear
they
are
thus
left
and
given
up
by
God
:
Several
Things
I
named
which
they
alledg
as
the
ground
of
their
Fear
,
which
yet
will
not
prove
that
God
hath
forsaken
'em
:
At
the
same
time
there
are
many
other
Things
that
will
evidence
the
Contrary
.
It
remains
therefore
,
that
I
may
faithfully
give
every
one
his
portion
,
Comfort
to
whom
Comfort
,
and
Terrour
to
whom
Terrour
is
due
;
That
I
also
speak
to
the
Case
of
Such
whose
Guilt
may
quickly
infer
this
Terrible
Judgment
,
or
concerning
whom
we
may
fear
,
whether
they
be
not
already
under
it
,
or
left
of
God
.
There
are
several
things
with
relation
to
this
Case
,
which
ought
to
be
Considered
.
I.
THE
First
dangerous
Symptom
is
Security
,
or
a
False
,
ungrounded
Peace
of
Conscience
.
This
is
frequently
the
Prologue
,
and
Forerunner
of
Judicial
hardning
.
It
is
often
a
part
of
it
,
and
an
Evidence
of
it
Their
Case
therefore
is
exceeding
dangerous
,
with
whom
Conscience
is
a
Asleep
,
or
Feared
.
When
that
sin
which
formerly
thy
Conscience
would
reprove
thee
for
,
thou
canst
now
commit
without
Remorse
,
or
Difficulty
:
When
such
,
or
such
a
Lust
can
be
freely
indulged
,
and
thy
Heart
not
reproach
thee
,
thy
Conscience
not
fly
in
thy
Face
,
or
speak
with
any
smartness
,
and
Authority
against
it
,
as
formerly
it
was
wont
to
do
:
When
the
Neglect
of
such
or
such
Duties
,
was
a
daily
Trouble
to
thee
heretofore
,
but
now
thou
canst
let
Them
alone
,
and
thy
Conscience
will
let
Thee
alone
,
without
rebuking
thee
,
or
calling
thee
to
Repentance
,
as
it
was
wont
to
do
.
Or
if
Conscience
do
speak
,
it
is
with
much
Faintness
,
without
any
such
Impressions
of
Fear
,
and
shame
,
and
sorrow
,
as
were
wont
to
be
produced
by
it
.
This
speaks
as
if
God
had
already
given
thee
up
in
some
degree
,
or
thou
art
very
near
what
is
worse
,
in
very
great
danger
of
this
dreadful
Judgment
.
This
Security
and
Quiet
,
notwithstanding
the
neglect
of
known
Duty
,
and
the
Commission
of
sin
,
I
grant
has
it's
Degrees
.
There
are
some
Degrees
of
it
,
into
which
a
good
Man
,
through
the
Prevalency
of
sin
and
Temptation
,
for
a
time
may
fall
.
Particularly
as
to
the
Duty
of
Prayer
,
and
the
spiritual
Performance
of
it
.
But
then
such
Persons
,
supposing
them
Upright
in
the
main
,
who
are
under
such
Backslidings
are
far
from
approving
themselves
in
this
Case
,
or
from
having
any
setled
Peace
.
They
have
many
an
unpleasing
Thought
about
their
own
Case
,
many
Resolutions
of
Repentance
,
that
they
may
be
Recovered
.
They
often
say
within
themselves
,
We
will
go
and
return
to
our
first
Husband
,
for
then
it
was
better
with
us
than
now
;
And
every
Providence
of
God
,
whether
of
Mercy
or
Affliction
,
they
regard
,
as
a
Call
from
Heaven
to
awaken
them
.
And
if
the
Word
preached
come
home
to
their
particular
Case
,
they
receive
the
Warning
,
and
do
not
reject
it
,
or
oppose
it
.
But
the
Persons
I
speak
of
,
as
in
danger
of
this
Judgment
,
are
such
,
especially
who
are
Secure
,
and
Quiet
under
the
Guilt
of
great
Transgressions
unrepented
of
,
and
under
the
continued
Omission
of
plain
Duties
.
They
are
lost
as
to
any
sense
of
Sin
,
and
they
approve
themselves
so
far
in
their
wretched
Course
,
as
to
speak
Peace
to
themselves
notwithstanding
the
repeated
and
loud
Calls
,
and
Warnings
of
God
to
repentance
.
Conscience
did
formerly
speak
,
but
they
have
so
long
checked
,
and
stifled
,
and
discouraged
,
and
silenced
the
Voice
of
Conscience
,
as
to
have
lost
one
of
the
greatest
Blessings
in
the
World
,
viz.
Tenderness
of
Conscience
.
They
have
either
silenc'd
their
Conscience
by
main
Force
,
or
they
have
disheartened
it
by
a
slighting
,
disobedient
Carriage
;
or
bribed
it
by
a
Form
of
Godliness
,
an
empty
barren
Profession
:
And
so
it
gives
way
to
a
delusive
destructive
Peace
,
either
to
flatter
them
in
the
way
to
Hell
,
or
not
truly
to
inform
them
of
their
danger
of
it
.
Such
persons
little
Apprehend
the
danger
they
are
in
.
For
it
is
much
better
to
have
an
Awakened
Conscience
,
that
roats
against
thee
,
than
a
Sleepy
,
silent
Conscience
,
that
doth
not
reprove
thee
.
It
is
better
thy
Conscience
should
not
speak
a
good
word
to
thee
;
than
,
how
great
cause
soever
there
be
,
that
it
should
speak
nothing
but
good
.
That
Conscience
should
speak
Peace
,
when
God
by
his
Word
speaks
Terrour
,
is
dreadful
in
it self
,
and
more
so
,
as
to
what
it
signifies
,
and
has
a
tendency
to
.
Neither
is
such
a
Spirit
of
Slum
ber
and
Security
only
dangerous
,
as
to
the
Persons
themselves
,
in
regard
of
the
State
or
their
own
Souls
;
But
these
spiritual
Judgments
,
where
they
prevail
as
to
great
numbers
of
Professing
Christians
,
(
as
it
is
observed
by
many
,
)
are
usually
followed
with
some
terrible
strokes
of
Temporal
Judgment
too
.
For
as
the
first
and
greatest
part
of
the
Deliverance
of
the
Church
is
Spiritual
,
by
the
pouring
out
of
the
Divine
spirit
;
and
the
Recovery
of
the
Life
and
Power
of
serious
Religion
,
and
the
more
plentiful
success
of
the
Gospel
Ministrations
;
and
this
makes
way
for
publick
National
Blessings
,
even
those
of
another
kind
,
and
is
usually
attended
with
them
:
So
the
first
Entrance
into
publick
National
Judgments
,
as
to
Temporals
,
is
by
spiritual
Judgments
,
on
the
Body
of
the
People
.
The
abounding
of
such
spiritual
Judgments
,
as
we
are
now
speaking
of
,
opens
the
Door
to
temporal
Calamities
,
and
is
the
usual
Forerunner
of
the
most
terrible
ones
,
even
of
that
kind
.
So
it
was
with
the
old
World
,
so
with
the
Jewish
Nation
before
their
Destruction
by
the
Romans
;
And
so
,
says
Salvian
,
was
it
with
the
African
Churches
before
the
Inundation
of
the
Goths
and
Vandals
;
And
the
like
in
later
Instances
,
I
believe
;
among
our
Neighbours
.
I
wish
there
be
no
moral
Prognostications
of
a
Day
of
Evil
on
this
Nation
upon
the
same
Account
.
We
ought
to
apprehend
the
danger
of
such
a
thing
,
We
may
on
these
moral
grounds
very
well
fear
it
.
But
it
is
the
Case
of
Particular
Persons
I
have
now
before
me
:
And
the
more
Security
and
false
Peace
of
Conscience
any
have
under
great
Guilt
unrepented
of
,
or
known
Duty
continually
neglected
,
the
nearer
do
any
such
approach
to
the
danger
of
being
given
up
of
God
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
:
If
they
are
not
already
entered
into
that
dismal
State
.
And
yet
how
many
such
bless
themselves
in
their
Hearts
,
and
please
themselves
,
that
they
are
now
free
from
the
Fears
of
Hell
.
They
do
not
trouble
themselves
about
the
State
of
their
Souls
,
as
others
do
,
and
as
they
formerly
did
:
They
have
few
or
no
sad
,
and
serious
Thoughts
,
what
shall
become
of
them
in
the
Everlasting
World
.
Of
all
Others
,
these
are
nearest
to
such
a
Judgment
as
that
in
the
Text
:
For
when
they
say
Peace
and
Safety
,
sudden
Destruction
shall
overtake
them
as
Travel
on
a
Woman
with
Child
,
1.
Thess.
5.3
.
They
now
speak
Peace
to
themselves
,
but
the
next
Day
or
Hour
,
they
may
know
and
feel
the
Truth
of
the
divine
Threatening
.
That
there
is
no
Peace
to
the
wicked
.
There
are
an
hundred
threatnings
in
the
Book
of
God
against
such
,
and
not
one
Promise
of
safety
for
one
Hour
.
And
yet
they
can
lye
down
,
and
rise
,
and
go
up
and
down
Securely
.
They
are
not
afraid
when
they
lye
down
to
sleep
,
that
they
shall
awake
in
Hell
before
the
next
Morning
.
They
are
not
afraid
when
they
arise
and
go
abroad
in
the
Morning
,
lest
the
Wrath
of
God
should
overtake
them
before
Night
.
Read
the
description
of
their
sin
and
Danger
in
that
terrible
passage
,
Deut.
29.18
,
20.
II.
ANOTHER
Symptom
of
this
Judgment
,
or
dangerous
Approach
unto
it
,
is
when
the
Ministry
of
the
Word
,
and
Gospel
of
Christ
becomes
a
tastless
,
insipid
,
ineffectual
thing
;
not
attended
with
any
such
spiritual
Impressions
as
formerly
.
Heretofore
you
hardly
heard
a
Sermon
without
some
Convictions
of
sin
,
and
Resolutions
against
it
;
the
Word
was
quick
and
powerful
,
to
give
an
humbling
sense
of
sin
,
and
to
excite
your
Resolutions
to
set
upon
neglected
Duties
;
but
now
there
is
no
such
thing
.
Yea
,
further
,
it
may
be
the
very
external
Worship
of
the
Gospel
,
the
Ordinances
and
Institutions
of
it
,
the
Dispencers
of
them
,
and
they
that
value
and
Mind
these
things
,
are
now
scorned
and
reviled
by
you
;
For
this
is
the
Case
of
some
Backsliders
,
after
great
Pretences
,
and
an
high
Profession
.
In
such
a
Case
you
will
find
your
spiritual
Appetite
to
the
Food
of
your
Souls
,
(
which
consists
in
Desires
after
the
sincere
Milk
of
the
word
that
you
may
grow
thereby
,
)
to
be
much
abated
and
lost
;
and
that
Spiritual
Savour
and
Relish
in
the
Food
of
your
Souls
,
which
followed
those
Desires
,
is
lost
too
.
Your
Preparations
,
Desires
,
and
Designs
in
coming
to
such
Institutions
,
are
otherwise
than
formerly
.
Though
upon
some
Considerations
you
have
not
thought
fit
to
abandon
the
publick
Worship
,
yet
you
have
no
such
Appetite
or
Tast
,
no
such
Desires
,
and
no
such
Relish
,
as
to
these
things
,
as
formerly
you
had
.
Neither
do
you
of
late
experience
any
of
those
excellent
Effects
,
which
the
Dispensation
of
the
Gospel
is
designed
to
produce
upon
the
Minds
,
and
Consciences
,
and
Lives
of
Men.
Though
there
is
difference
in
the
degree
of
these
Declensions
,
yet
this
is
the
high
Road
to
Obduration
,
Hardness
of
Heart
and
final
Impenitence
.
And
therefore
,
to
use
the
Words
of
a
learned
Person
concerning
such
Apostates
,
[
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*
Dr.
Owen
,
Dominion
of
sin
and
Grace
,
p.
89.
The
Calls
of
God
unto
such
Backsliders
in
heart
,
for
a
return
by
Repentance
,
are
multiplied
,
and
the
Reasons
of
it
are
innumerable
;
and
without
it
,
it
is
certain
,
that
they
shall
perish
Eternally
,
and
they
know
not
how
soon
they
may
be
overtaken
with
that
Destruction
,
Prov.
29.1
.
He
that
being
often
reproved
,
hardens
his
Heart
,
shall
suddenly
be
destroyed
,
and
that
without
Remedy
.
If
Men
once
come
to
this
,
that
,
under
the
most
searching
,
lively
Sermons
,
they
can
continue
secure
,
and
wilful
in
known
sins
;
they
may
fear
lest
they
be
left
to
go
further
;
even
to
the
hating
of
Godliness
,
and
good
Men
;
Or
at
least
to
be
so
far
stupified
,
as
not
to
feel
any
thing
of
the
force
of
Gods
Terrors
,
or
the
sweetness
of
his
Promises
;
but
to
make
a
Jest
of
sin
,
and
think
a
Life
of
Godliness
a
needless
thing
.
Such
Persons
,
when
it
comes
to
this
,
especially
if
they
grow
old
in
this
Course
,
have
Cause
to
fear
lest
they
be
forsaken
of
God
,
and
given
over
to
their
own
Hearts
Lusts
,
sealed
up
under
Judicial
Blindness
,
and
Hardness
of
Heart
.
III.
WHEN
The
Spirit
of
Grace
gives
over
striving
with
the
Souls
of
Men.
This
is
a
most
dangerous
Case
:
For
except
He
return
,
they
are
irrecoverably
lost
.
There
is
an
absolute
necessity
of
the
Influence
of
the
Divine
Spirit
to
the
Begining
,
Progress
,
and
Continuance
of
the
Spiritual
Life
;
and
there
is
no
Opposition
in
the
Soul
,
but
this
Spirit
of
Life
and
Power
can
overcome
.
But
when
he
gives
over
striving
with
men
how
deplorable
must
their
Case
be
!
And
this
he
doth
with
many
,
after
they
have
resisted
the
Spirit
,
and
rebelled
against
the
Spirit
,
and
vexed
the
Holy
Spirit
of
God
,
as
we
read
of
some
that
did
,
Acts
7.51
.
Now
if
this
blessed
Spirit
move
not
upon
the
Soul
of
a
Backslider
,
he
can
never
be
recovered
.
And
when
he
hath
often
been
repulsed
and
grieved
,
and
quenched
,
he
may
withdraw
in
Anger
;
and
God
may
justly
resolve
,
as
concerning
the
old
World
,
that
his
Spirit
shall
strive
no
more
,
no
longer
with
them
.
Especially
when
after
a
great
Profession
of
Christianity
,
men
turn
Apostates
,
and
despise
Preaching
,
and
the
other
Institutions
of
the
Gospel
;
having
done
despite
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
Heb.
10.29
.
Which
,
though
spoken
of
open
,
final
Apostates
,
should
make
Others
that
approach
thereto
to
tremble
.
And
of
how
much
soever
Punishment
shall
such
be
thought
guilty
,
that
do
thus
Despight
to
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
who
bears
Witness
to
his
Person
and
Doctrine
!
Who
can
tell
the
Dreadfulness
and
Horrour
of
their
Punishment
?
The
Constitution
of
the
Law
of
Moses
reached
but
to
a
temporal
Death
without
mercy
:
But
besides
temporal
.
Judgments
,
such
a
Guilt
will
expose
them
to
Eternal
Wrath
;
For
the
greatest
sin
will
have
the
greatest
Punishment
.
No
wonder
then
if
the
Holy
Spirit
strive
no
more
with
Persons
that
come
under
this
tremendous
Guilt
;
that
sin
against
the
Holy
Spirit
,
even
as
a
Spirit
of
Grace
;
doing
Despight
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
who
did
invite
,
and
wooe
,
and
draw
them
unto
Christ
,
to
bring
them
under
the
Bond
of
the
Covenant
.
My
Spirit
shall
not
alway
strive
with
men
,
Gen.
6.3
.
Heb.
3.13
.
Luke
13
7.
When
the
Spirit
of
Grace
,
and
Love
,
and
Benignity
,
hath
shone
in
upon
their
Minds
,
and
often
touched
their
Consciences
;
and
secretly
whispered
,
Sinner
,
Wilt
thou
not
yet
turn
?
What
,
hast
thou
no
Inclinations
to
return
to
me
?
O
do
not
go
on
and
perish
,
&c.
Now
to
despight
this
very
Spirit
of
Grace
,
must
needs
be
attended
with
great
Aggravations
of
Guilt
,
because
it
is
after
some
Experience
of
his
Influence
and
Power
.
This
must
be
one
of
the
most
dangerous
Symptoms
of
a
perishing
lost
Condition
:
The
Gospel
must
needs
be
hid
unto
such
,
because
,
without
the
Light
and
Influence
of
the
Holy
Spirit
,
it
can
have
no
saving
Effect
.
If
our
Gospel
be
hid
,
says
our
Apostle
,
it
is
hid
to
them
that
are
lost
,
2
Cor.
4.3
.
Whose
Minds
are
blinded
by
Satan
,
lest
the
Light
of
the
glorious
Gospel
of
Christ
should
shine
into
their
Hearts
.
Though
I
must
here
add
,
that
no
Man
,
I
believe
,
can
determine
,
what
Degree
of
this
Guilt
as
to
particular
Persons
,
doth
distinguish
those
who
are
Irrecoverably
lost
,
from
such
as
are
Recoverable
,
and
may
be
called
to
Repentance
.
IV.
THOUGH
The
Spirit
have
not
done
striving
;
yet
when
the
preaching
of
the
Word
,
though
you
cannot
resist
the
Light
of
divine
Truth
,
but
somewhat
of
it
shines
into
the
Mind
and
Conscience
;
if
yet
your
Hearts
stand
out
,
and
will
not
yield
,
this
is
a
dangerous
Case
.
For
men
may
be
convinced
by
the
Word
,
of
the
sinfulness
and
Danger
of
their
Condition
;
they
may
come
to
determine
and
to
pronounce
Judgment
upon
themselves
,
that
what
God
requires
of
them
is
but
Just
and
equal
,
and
that
hitherto
they
have
not
complied
with
his
Call
.
One
thing
or
other
,
from
day
to
day
,
hath
hindered
them
from
coming
up
to
the
terms
of
the
Gospel
,
from
a
covenant
Closure
with
the
Son
of
God
upon
the
Gospel
Call
:
They
may
say
,
and
own
it
before
God
and
Men
,
That
they
are
deeply
convinced
such
a
thing
ought
to
be
done
;
But
I
have
not
yet
found
the
time
,
or
the
Leisure
,
or
the
Heart
,
to
retire
into
a
Closet
,
and
consider
it
,
and
set
about
it
in
good
earnest
,
and
give
up
my
Soul
to
him
;
I
am
convinced
I
must
do
it
,
or
I
cannot
enter
into
Heaven
;
I
am
convinced
I
must
turn
,
or
I
shall
dye
;
I
am
satisfied
this
my
present
Course
must
issue
in
my
Ruine
,
my
Eternal
Ruine
;
that
if
I
go
on
and
dye
in
this
Case
,
I
am
lost
for
ever
.
But
yet
,
notwithstanding
such
Convictions
,
with
many
,
still
the
Heart
holds
out
against
all
that
can
be
said
.
The
highest
and
the
most
important
matters
that
can
be
named
,
though
propounded
with
the
clearest
Evidence
,
and
represented
as
of
the
nearest
Concern
to
them
,
yet
do
not
effectually
prevail
with
them
.
Though
we
propose
,
in
the
Name
of
God
,
the
Incouragment
of
that
Blessedness
,
and
Priviledge
,
which
no
man
,
that
understands
and
believes
,
but
must
desire
;
Though
we
flash
the
Fire
of
Hell
before
them
,
and
endeavour
by
the
Terrors
of
the
Lord
to
perswade
them
;
yet
they
have
heard
of
these
things
so
often
,
that
they
are
not
moved
by
them
to
yield
themselves
to
the
Lord
.
All
that
we
speak
in
the
Name
of
Christ
is
as
a
Tale
that
is
told
,
they
have
heard
it
so
often
it
makes
little
Impression
:
Things
are
come
to
that
sad
pass
with
them
,
and
they
are
Scrmon-proof
to
that
Degree
,
that
(
to
use
the
words
of
a
Great
man
,
)
unless
we
could
speak
of
greater
things
than
Heaven
and
Hell
,
we
cannot
move
them
.
And
though
their
Minds
are
inlightened
,
and
some
Convictions
begun
;
yet
their
Lusts
carry
the
Day
against
their
Convictions
:
Conscience
is
baffled
,
or
kept
under
by
the
Power
of
vicious
Inclinations
.
And
while
men
go
on
at
this
rate
,
who
can
tell
but
God
may
say
,
Let
them
alone
?
but
that
he
may
give
them
up
to
those
Lusts
they
have
chosen
,
and
so
their
Condition
be
desperate
:
Though
they
themselves
do
not
apprehend
it
to
be
so
?
And
as
to
individual
Persons
we
cannot
distinctly
tell
when
it
is
so
;
but
so
it
may
be
,
and
God
be
clear
in
his
Righteousness
herein
:
because
it
is
penal
,
and
after
great
Provocations
,
and
it
was
lately
otherwise
with
them
:
But
they
sinned
away
their
Mercy
,
and
outstood
their
Day
.
There
was
a
time
when
he
would
have
been
found
of
them
,
but
now
he
will
not
.
O
that
thou
hadst
known
in
this
thy
day
the
things
that
belong
unto
thy
Peace
!
Now
they
are
hid
from
thine
Eyes
:
A
little
while
ago
they
were
not
.
But
to
prevent
mistake
,
Remember
,
that
though
the
Spirit
retiring
from
such
,
does
infer
their
Day
of
Grace
to
be
past
,
if
he
return
not
;
and
for
ought
you
can
tell
,
he
never
may
;
yet
he
doth
not
Darken
their
Minds
by
putting
any
ill
thoughts
into
them
,
or
any
ill
Disposition
of
Mind
.
God
retires
,
and
the
Spirit
leaves
you
,
after
you
have
provoked
him
,
and
so
you
are
lost
.
He
only
says
,
This
wretched
Creature
will
not
be
prevailed
with
,
he
persists
in
a
careless
Neglect
of
me
,
and
my
Son
and
Spirit
;
we
will
leave
him
,
and
let
him
alone
to
his
own
Lusts
,
to
walk
in
his
own
Counsels
.
O
dreadful
Doom
!
how
should
the
Danger
of
it
startle
us
!
V.
THERE
are
Others
,
whose
Case
is
exceeding
dangerous
,
who
,
after
some
trial
in
the
ways
of
God
,
for
want
of
that
sensible
Joy
and
Comfort
which
they
expected
,
grow
weary
of
them
,
and
leave
them
off
.
They
were
formerly
diligent
,
and
constant
in
the
outward
performance
of
such
and
such
Duties
of
Worship
,
in
publick
and
private
;
but
now
have
laid
them
aside
.
Some
of
these
,
I
believe
,
have
now
and
then
a
sentence
of
Condemnation
within
themselves
,
but
Others
are
hardened
past
feeling
.
They
tried
a
while
,
and
began
hopefully
,
and
made
a
little
Progress
;
But
their
Convictions
did
not
presently
end
in
peace
of
Conscience
,
they
did
not
presently
meet
with
that
comfortable
settlement
,
and
Establishment
which
they
hoped
for
;
either
through
their
own
Ignorance
,
or
want
of
Advice
,
and
Counsel
concerning
the
state
of
their
Souls
,
or
from
the
Power
of
Temptation
,
&c.
But
not
finding
such
Peace
and
Joy
as
they
expected
,
or
so
soon
,
they
give
over
,
and
go
back
to
their
wonted
Course
of
sin
,
and
Neglect
of
God
.
This
is
the
Case
of
many
convinced
in
their
Youth
.
They
follow
the
Tendency
of
that
for
some
time
,
they
hope
for
a
good
Issue
,
and
that
their
Trouble
of
Soul
will
be
quickly
over
:
They
pray
and
read
,
and
confess
sin
,
and
mourn
for
it
,
&c.
But
find
not
presently
the
Peace
they
expected
,
they
find
their
Lusts
to
strive
and
stir
still
,
and
sin
and
Satan
not
to
be
overcome
,
and
it
may
be
some
Corruptions
are
more
strong
than
formerly
,
or
they
are
more
sensible
of
their
strength
,
and
Acting
:
Hereupon
the
Devil
suggests
to
them
matter
of
Discouragment
,
and
their
own
Hearts
are
ready
to
make
them
say
,
in
a
timorous
Despondency
of
Spirit
,
I
see
I
am
entered
into
a
melancholy
course
of
Life
;
I
see
no
end
of
these
Troubles
,
I
fear
I
shall
never
attain
to
Peace
as
long
as
I
hearken
to
my
Conscience
:
If
I
thus
let
every
sin
trouble
me
,
I
shall
never
have
a
days
Quiet
:
If
I
am
thus
nice
,
and
scrupulous
,
and
tender
about
sin
and
Duty
,
I
shall
never
while
I
live
get
out
of
these
Perplexities
.
Therefore
I
will
even
cast
all
off
,
I
will
give
my self
more
Liberty
,
and
hearken
to
my
Conscience
no
longer
;
I
will
take
my
Pleasure
as
I
see
others
do
,
and
not
wait
any
longer
for
those
Pleasures
of
another
kind
,
which
I
was
told
of
,
but
despair
of
attaining
.
I
give
up
all
for
lost
,
as
to
any
of
these
things
,
I
shall
never
reach
them
;
therefore
I
will
do
as
well
as
I
can
for
the
present
;
I
will
drive
away
my
melancholy
Thoughts
by
Company
,
and
Wine
,
and
Mirth
,
&c.
Hereupon
such
Persons
come
in
a
little
while
to
dislike
all
such
Books
,
and
Preaching
as
would
revive
their
Convictions
,
and
to
avoid
the
very
Company
of
those
who
knew
any
thing
of
the
state
of
their
Souls
,
while
under
Conviction
,
and
are
like
to
speak
to
them
about
it
.
That
Ministry
that
will
not
let
them
alone
,
and
suffer
them
to
be
quiet
in
the
Enjoyment
of
their
Lusts
,
they
cannot
relish
;
and
in
a
little
while
they
care
for
none
at
all
;
unless
their
Credit
,
and
Reputation
,
or
Temporal
Interest
,
or
some
such
Motive
,
ingage
them
to
attend
it
.
Or
else
they
cure
themselves
by
some
false
Doctrines
,
that
put
an
end
to
their
Convictions
,
and
make
them
easily
perswade
themselves
that
they
are
Elected
,
and
that
Christ
is
theirs
,
and
their
Sins
are
pardoned
,
or
were
so
from
all
Eternity
,
&c.
But
this
is
a
hazardous
and
dreadful
Case
,
when
Persons
arrive
to
this
pitch
,
they
had
need
look
about
them
,
and
Return
quickly
,
lest
God
should
give
them
over
.
VI.
WHEN
men
continue
in
sin
,
and
put
off
their
Repentance
and
Turning
to
God
,
with
this
Thought
and
Intention
,
that
they
will
some
time
or
other
Repent
,
and
turn
to
God
,
but
not
yet
.
One
can
hardly
tell
,
whether
the
provoking
Guilt
,
and
Danger
of
such
a
Case
,
be
greater
than
the
horrid
Absurdity
of
it
.
And
yet
this
is
a
Delusion
that
has
ruined
Thousands
,
and
made
ample
Harvests
for
the
Devil
.
They
have
some
Tremblings
under
the
Word
,
as
Felix
when
the
Apostle
discoursed
of
Righteousness
,
and
Temperance
,
and
Judgment
to
come
;
But
the
convenient
time
for
their
complying
with
their
Convictions
,
and
performing
their
good
Resolutions
,
is
not
come
,
but
they
intend
it
,
they
resolve
it
.
I
would
fain
ask
such
Persons
,
that
now
continue
in
known
sin
,
unreconciled
to
God
,
who
yet
intend
to
Repent
;
whether
they
indeed
think
that
God
will
Accept
,
and
forgive
them
when
they
do
Repent
,
or
that
he
will
not
?
If
they
say
,
as
doubtless
they
will
,
We
think
and
hope
he
will
forgive
us
,
and
whenever
we
truly
Repent
,
he
has
promised
to
receive
us
.
Yet
,
1.
IS
it
not
then
the
basest
,
and
the
most
horrid
Ingratitude
that
can
be
,
to
continue
longer
to
abuse
the
Grace
of
God
,
to
assront
him
,
and
rebel
against
him
,
and
delay
your
Return
to
him
,
with
this
Thought
?
Dare
you
say
to
the
God
of
all
Grace
,
who
has
born
with
you
so
long
,
Lord
,
I
have
dishonoured
thy
Name
for
so
many
years
,
I
have
slighted
thy
Authority
,
I
have
disobeyed
thy
Calls
,
I
have
refused
thy
Grace
,
I
have
exposed
my self
to
thy
righteous
Anger
all
my
Life
hitherto
;
O
let
me
alone
to
do
so
thus
much
longer
,
and
then
I
will
Repent
,
then
I
will
ask
thee
forgiveness
.
How
ungrateful
,
how
absurd
is
such
a
Speech
!
2.
WILL
Not
the
same
Argument
that
keeps
thee
from
Repenting
now
,
be
as
strong
hereafter
?
For
after
all
the
little
objections
against
Repenting
,
and
Reforming
at
present
;
the
only
one
at
the
bottom
is
,
because
it
is
Present
;
and
that
will
still
hold
:
So
that
your
Turning
to
God
will
be
as
improbable
at
any
time
hereafter
,
as
now
.
It
ought
to
be
very
well
considered
in
this
Case
,
That
whoever
continues
in
sin
with
this
Thought
,
and
Design
of
Repenting
hereafter
;
the
Devil
is
sure
to
prosper
in
any
Attempt
against
that
Man
.
For
when
that
time
comes
to
be
present
,
unto
which
he
has
adjourned
his
intended
Repentance
,
the
Argument
will
be
as
strong
against
repenting
then
,
as
it
is
for
delaying
now
.
He
will
then
adjourn
it
to
some
distance
season
.
3.
DO
You
know
what
Repentance
is
,
that
you
will
venture
upon
sin
with
a
Design
to
Repent
?
That
is
,
that
you
will
continue
to
do
that
,
which
you●
resolve
and
intend
,
to
wish
you
had
never
done
;
to
be
heartily
sorry
that
you
were
such
Fools
as
to
do
it
.
You
resolve
to
do
that
,
which
you
resolve
to
be
ashamed
of
,
and
to
loath
your selves
for
,
and
would
give
all
the
World
,
if
it
were
in
your
Power
that
you
had
not
done
it
:
For
this
is
implied
in
Repentance
.
Now
is
it
becoming
the
Wisdom
,
and
Reason
of
a
Man
,
thus
to
act
?
4.
ART
Thou
sure
to
live
to
that
time
,
unto
which
thou
delayest
thy
Repentance
,
and
Turning
to
God
?
With
how
many
every
week
is
that
the
Case
,
who
intend
to
Repent
,
some
time
or
other
,
but
dye
before
the
time
comes
?
VI.
WHAT
If
God
should
give
thee
over
to
thine
own
Hearts
Lusts
?
May
he
not
justly
leave
thee
to
the
hardness
of
thine
impenitent
Heart
?
Doth
not
such
a
Carriage
of
thine
deserve
it
?
If
thou
wilt
go
on
from
Month
to
Month
,
from
year
to
year
,
in
the
neglect
of
known
Duties
,
under
the
Convictions
of
Conscience
,
that
thou
art
not
yet
turned
to
God
,
or
recon●iled
to
him
;
thou
wilt
,
I
say
,
yet
go
on
,
and
continue
as
thou
art
,
though
thy
Heart
tell
thee
,
if
thou
dye
in
this
Condition
thou
must
perish
;
and
thou
hast
nothing
to
relieve
thee
in
this
sad
Case
,
but
only
an
Intention
to
Repent
some
time
hereafter
:
O
how
Justly
may
God
deny
that
Grace
to
Thee
,
which
thou
hast
so
long
abused
,
and
forfeited
,
and
wilt
not
now
Accept
!
How
righteously
mayst
thou
be
sealed
up
to
Destruction
,
by
Gods
forsaking
of
thee
!
VII
.
THERE
is
another
sort
,
whose
Case
is
exceeding
dangerous
,
viz.
Who
often
fall
into
the
same
sins
,
which
they
Repent
of
,
and
are
sorry
for
.
After
they
have
sinned
,
they
Repent
of
those
sins
again
;
and
after
some
Repentance
,
they
commit
the
same
sins
again
;
and
so
have
the
Aggravations
of
sinning
against
Knowledge
.
Now
to
him
that
knoweth
to
do
good
,
and
doth
it
not
;
that
knoweth
what
is
evil
,
and
forbears
it
not
,
to
him
it
is
sin
with
a
Witness
,
Jam.
4.7
.
He
that
knew
his
Masters
Will
,
and
did
it
not
,
shall
be
beaten
with
many
stripes
,
Luk.
12.49
.
It
is
a
dreadful
passage
,
though
spoken
of
Apostates
from
the
Profession
of
Christianity
unto
Judaism
or
Heathenism
,
Heb.
10
26
,
27
,
28
,
29.
That
such
as
sin
after
the
Knowledg
of
the
Truth
,
there
remains
no
more
sacrifice
for
such
sins
.
For
what
further
Guilt
may
not
such
sins
against
Knowledge
bring
them
to
,
and
issue
in
?
Doubtless
the
more
you
know
,
and
have
considered
the
Issue
and
Consequence
of
such
sins
,
(
as
by
renewing
your
Repentance
is
implied
,
that
something
of
this
kind
has
been
done
;
)
the
more
aggravated
is
your
Sin
afterward
,
and
the
more
dangerous
your
Case
.
And
the
more
struggle
and
striving
there
has
been
of
Conscience
against
Corruption
;
and
yet
thy
Lusts
have
carried
the
day
and
got
the
victory
over
Conscience
;
The
more
Vows
and
Promises
of
Amendment
that
you
have
made
,
and
broken
,
and
sinned
against
;
repenting
of
your
Repentance
,
as
Pharoah
did
;
the
greater
is
your
sin
and
Danger
:
The
more
Warnings
you
have
had
of
God
by
his
Providence
,
and
the
more
awakening
Calls
of
his
Word
,
●nd
yet
you
continue
this
Course
of
●●●ning
,
and
repenting
,
of
repenting
,
and
sinning
still
;
the
more
dangerous
is
your
Case
.
Especially
under
a
professon
of
Religion
.
For
in
a
little
time
Conscience
thus
affronted
is
like
enough
to
be
hardened
,
and
to
be
seared
as
with
an
hot
Iron
,
2
Thess.
2.12
.
And
God
may
give
you
up
to
an
impenitent
Heart
,
leaving
you
to
commit
the
grossest
Abominations
,
without
shame
or
Remorse
,
as
he
did
the
Gentiles
,
Rom
1.21
,
24
,
26
,
28.
If
such
be
ever
awakened
to
Repentance
in
this
World
,
this
very
Consideration
will
pierce
them
to
the
Heart
;
this
will
make
them
ready
to
despair
;
That
,
as
the
Apostle
said
of
himself
,
I
did
it
ignorantly
,
therefore
I
obtained
Mercy
;
They
will
be
ready
to
cry
out
against
themselves
,
I
did
so
and
so
,
but
it
was
against
Knowledge
,
therefore
there
is
no
Mercy
for
me
.
There
remains
for
such
,
without
Repentance
a
most
fearful
Punishment
,
And
a
fearful
looking
for
,
and
Expectation
of
such
Punishment
,
in
the
Consciences
of
those
who
have
sinned
at
this
rate
.
And
there
be
very
Few
of
those
who
have
lived
long
under
the
preaching
of
the
Word
,
and
continued
to
sin
thus
against
Knowledge
,
and
Conscience
till
they
were
old
;
very
few
such
are
recovered
to
Repentance
.
Certainly
the
greater
the
Knowledge
is
you
sin
against
the
more
you
provoke
God
to
give
you
up
to
a
reprobate
Mind
,
and
to
leave
you
to
hardness
of
Heart
.
VIII
.
WHEN
,
Notwithstanding
the
Profession
of
Religion
,
and
outward
Attendance
on
the
Duties
of
it
,
yet
sin
has
the
Dominion
and
Mastery
in
the
Soul
;
and
sensual
Inclinations
are
indulged
without
restraint
,
even
as
to
gross
and
notorious
sins
.
There
are
some
Backsliders
,
who
would
formerly
have
started
back
at
such
or
such
a
Temptation
,
who
can
now
boldly
enter
into
it
,
readily
yield
,
and
are
easily
overcome
,
without
Concern
or
struggle
.
Sin
has
the
Mastery
and
Dominion
in
the
Soul
,
they
go
on
to
commit
it
without
Check
or
Fear
.
They
consent
to
its
Rule
,
they
are
willing
subjects
:
For
to
whom
you
yield
your
Servants
to
obey
,
his
Servants
ye
are
,
Rom.
6.6
.
And
that
victory
which
Sin
hath
got
by
your
own
Consent
,
may
justly
,
as
it
commonly
doth
in
the
swent
,
bring
that
Bondage
and
Slavery
under
sin
,
which
is
Judicial
,
and
Penal
.
That
slavery
to
sin
which
at
first
was
voluntary
,
afterwards
becomes
unavoidable
.
You
are
held
in
the
Chains
of
your
own
sins
,
you
are
captivated
and
ovrecome
by
your
own
lusts
.
While
they
promise
themselves
Liberty
,
says
the
Apostle
,
they
are
the
Servants
of
Corruption
:
for
of
whom
a
Man
is
overcome
,
of
the
same
is
he
brought
into
Bondage
,
2.
Pet.
2.19
.
There
is
less
hope
of
such
Men
that
are
grown
loose
and
sensual
,
after
they
have
been
forward
Professors
:
And
they
are
harder
to
be
recovered
than
any
others
.
For
they
are
more
likely
to
be
left
of
God
.
Some
have
unwarily
said
,
that
an
open
profligate
debauched
Person
is
nearer
the
Grace
of
God
and
salvation
by
Christ
,
than
a
moral
honest
Man
,
that
is
kept
from
the
grosser
Pollutions
of
the
World
.
But
such
Expressions
should
not
make
us
think
,
that
God
will
invite
and
wooe
us
the
more
earnestly
,
the
further
our
sins
have
divorced
us
from
him
.
[
*
](B10034-e20050-b)
*
Dr.
Hammonds
Sermons
,
p.
275.
It
is
true
,
the
Holy
Ghost
can
cleanse
and
adorn
,
and
prepare
himself
a
room
in
any
Heart
,
and
soften
it
,
and
not
be
repulsed
by
the
most
habituate
sin
,
or
Devil
.
And
some
have
been
thus
snatched
like
fire-brands
out
of
the
Fire
,
and
changed
from
incarnate
Devils
to
incarnate
Saints
.
Yet
those
extraordinary
and
rare
Examples
must
not
be
thought
a
Rule
.
Therefore
in
ordinary
charitable
Reason
,
we
ought
to
Judge
more
hopefully
of
those
Men
,
who
have
not
run
into
the
grossest
sensualities
,
and
Corruptions
of
the
World
;
of
such
especially
,
who
by
any
common
Influence
of
the
Spirit
,
with
the
Word
,
have
been
kept
back
from
great
Transgressions
;
so
that
by
the
Knowledge
of
Christ
,
they
have
escaped
the
Pollutions
of
the
World
;
and
by
the
Advantage
of
their
Education
,
and
common
Grace
,
and
Providence
,
have
been
restrained
from
foul
Miscarriages
.
If
such
as
these
do
afterwards
become
profane
,
and
loose
,
and
sensual
,
and
grosly
carnal
;
it
is
said
of
them
,
their
latter
End
is
like
to
be
worse
than
their
Begining
.
And
it
had
been
better
for
them
not
to
have
known
the
Way
of
Righteousness
,
than
,
after
having
known
it
,
to
turn
from
the
holy
Commandments
.
That
some
Men
may
sin
themselves
into
a
state
of
Incurable
Impenitence
,
is
very
plain
from
Scripture
.
Your
neglect
and
Provocations
may
put
Christ
to
his
Irreversible
Oath
,
and
make
him
swear
as
he
once
did
,
that
you
shall
not
enter
into
his
Rest
,
Heb.
3.11
.
And
that
this
is
of
force
in
the
times
of
the
Gospel
,
is
more
than
intimated
,
v.
12.
Exhorting
professing
Christians
at
that
time
,
to
beware
of
an
Evil
heart
of
Vnbelief
,
from
the
Example
of
the
Israelites
.
That
Terrible
place
.
Isa.
6.9
.
Is
quoted
no
less
than
six
times
in
the
New
Tastament
,
as
if
it
belonged
to
them
,
who
sit
under
Gospel
Light
.
As
to
that
difficult
passage
,
Heb.
6.4
,
5.
Concerning
those
who
had
been
made
Partakers
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
tasted
of
the
good
Word
of
God
,
and
of
the
Powers
of
the
World
to
come
,
and
yet
did
fall
away
;
it
is
said
,
it
is
impossible
to
renew
them
again
.
In
the
ordinary
way
it
is
not
to
be
expected
.
Though
that
Passage
do
especially
respect
such
Apostates
as
openly
renounced
Christianity
,
crucifying
the
Son
of
God
afresh
:
Yet
such
as
,
after
a
plausible
Profession
,
turn
to
a
loose
and
notoriously
wicked
Life
,
whether
they
keep
that
Profession
still
,
or
abandon
it
,
they
are
greatly
in
danger
of
the
like
Judgment
.
For
the
Earth
that
drinks
in
the
Rain
that
often
comes
upon
it
,
and
yet
brings
forth
nothing
but
Briars
,
is
rejected
,
and
is
nigh
unto
Cursing
,
whose
end
is
to
be
burned
,
as
it
there
follows
,
7
,
8.
V.
Their
Case
is
next
to
hopeless
and
desperate
.
And
what
reason
have
all
Backsliders
to
fear
,
lest
they
sin
themselves
into
such
a
dismal
state
.
Vse
.
1.
And
let
that
be
the
first
Improvement
I
would
make
of
this
Discourse
,
To
awaken
Apostates
,
and
Backsliders
to
Consider
their
Danger
.
It
may
be
you
have
gratified
your
Lusts
,
notwithstanding
the
Light
of
Conscience
,
and
the
Motions
of
the
Spirit
;
Now
,
it
may
be
,
you
can
sin
with
less
Regret
,
and
don
't
feel
the
Wounds
you
give
your selves
by
your
Transgressions
?
Can
you
say
but
that
the
Blessed
Spirit
is
retired
in
great
measure
already
?
And
is
it
any
Wonder
,
after
so
many
struggles
and
Conflicts
,
if
he
should
for
ever
Retire
,
and
leave
you
to
the
full
uncontroulable
Dominion
of
your
own
Lusts
?
If
he
should
say
,
he
that
is
filthy
,
let
him
be
●●thy
still
;
because
you
would
not
bepurged
,
you
shall
not
be
purged
,
till
I
make
my
Fury
to
rest
upon
you
.
Awake
therefore
,
and
consider
your
Danger
.
You
that
find
any
of
these
things
agree
to
your
own
Case
beware
lest
you
be
in
the
Number
of
those
that
draw
back
unto
Perdition
,
in
whom
God
says
his
Soul
can
take
no
Pleasure
,
Heb.
10.38
.
Take
no
Pleasure
,
that
is
,
whom
he
loaths
,
and
detests
.
Were
we
not
under
some
great
Declension
,
some
sad
degree
of
Hardness
of
Heart
our selves
;
how
should
we
pity
the
Case
of
all
such
Persons
who
are
near
this
Judgment
?
With
what
hearty
Concern
for
them
,
should
we
endeavour
their
Recovery
,
did
we
know
better
,
and
believingly
consider
more
,
what
it
is
to
be
left
of
God
,
and
given
over
!
With
what
hearty
Grief
should
I
mourn
over
such
Persons
!
With
what
Groans
,
and
Tears
of
Compassion
should
I
warn
them
,
and
try
to
awaken
them
,
if
my
own
Heart
were
not
under
somwhat
of
this
Hardness
,
which
they
are
like
to
be
totally
given
up
unto
!
I
confess
,
at
first
,
I
was
loth
to
preach
,
or
publish
these
things
,
lest
I
should
drive
some
to
Despair
.
But
upon
more
serious
Consideration
,
I
do
not
think
that
the
Generality
of
People
are
so
very
apt
to
Despair
.
They
have
ten
thousand
ways
to
flatter
themselves
,
and
they
will
hope
for
the
most
part
,
in
despight
of
all
Arguments
to
the
Contrary
.
In
all
the
Scripture
there
is
but
one
Example
of
a
despairing
Man
,
and
that
was
Judas
;
Who
did
not
despair
by
reason
of
any
terrible
Doctrine
which
was
preached
to
him
,
but
because
of
the
Load
of
his
own
foul
sin
and
the
Weakness
and
Pusillanimity
of
his
own
Spirit
.
But
for
one
who
despairs
,
O
what
Multitudes
are
there
who
live
in
sin
,
and
yet
Sibi
suaviter
benedicunt
,
think
themselves
in
a
good
Condition
,
and
that
all
is
well
;
Though
the
Scriptures
say
,
that
the
Righteous
shall
scarcely
be
saved
,
and
that
the
Gate
is
straight
that
leads
to
Life
;
yet
every
Body
almost
hopes
to
be
saved
,
in
the
Course
they
are
in
,
though
it
be
the
broad
way
.
YOU
that
are
under
any
of
these
dangerous
Symptoms
that
approach
to
such
a
Judgment
,
take
heed
of
Encouraging
your selves
in
a
false
Hope
of
●vation
.
Bethink
your selves
,
ap●nd
your
Da●ger
,
and
awake
to
prevent
the
dismal
Issue
.
Make
haste
,
and
escape
for
your
Life
,
if
yet
there
be
Hope
of
your
Recovery
.
It
must
be
speedy
Repentance
,
now
,
while
it
is
called
to
day
,
before
the
Master
of
the
House
be
gone
,
and
the
Door
shut
:
For
then
many
shall
seek
to
enter
,
and
shall
not
be
able
.
For
so
we
read
,
Luk.
13.24
,
25
,
Verses
connected
,
without
a
full
stop
between
them
,
as
in
our
Translation
.
If
you
are
not
yet
sealed
up
,
and
given
over
,
(
as
the
Motions
of
the
Spirit
yet
striving
with
you
,
and
some
Concernedness
about
your
own
Case
,
is
a
good
Argument
that
you
are
not
)
O
awake
,
and
call
upon
God!
Remembering
whence
you
are
fallen
,
and
repent
presently
:
For
if
you
resist
,
and
refuse
this
Call
of
God
,
you
may
never
have
Another
,
or
never
have
Grace
to
hearken
to
another
,
and
then
the
Issue
will
be
the
same
.
I
would
hope
,
that
none
of
those
to
whom
I
now
speak
are
so
Lost
but
they
may
be
Recovered
(
And
I
cannot
think
that
any
who
reads
this
,
is
in
so
hopeless
a
Case
,
but
he
may
find
Me●cy
,
if
yet
he
will
seek
it
.
)
He
has
〈◊〉
sinned
the
sin
unto
Death
,
who
is
afraid
left
he
be
guilty
of
it
You
are
not
absolutely
given
over
and
forsaken
of
God
,
or
sure
that
you
shall
finally
be
so
,
that
this
Spirit
will
no
more
return
,
though
in
some
Degree
you
are
forsaken
;
If
you
are
brought
to
consider
your
Danger
,
and
to
resolve
to
use
Means
to
prevent
the
fatal
Issue
:
You
are
not
finally
left
of
God
,
whatever
dangerous
Approaches
you
have
made
to
such
a
Judgment
.
In
the
Consideration
therefore
of
your
Danger
,
awake
to
use
Gods
appointed
Means
.
And
here
,
1.
I
might
advise
,
that
you
Watch
carefully
lest
you
enter
into
Temptation
.
2.
That
you
take
heed
of
slight
Thoughts
of
sin
.
3.
That
you
labour
to
have
right
Apprehensions
concerning
the
Attributes
of
God
,
and
the
tenor
of
the
New
Covenant
by
Christ
Jesus
.
4.
That
you
attend
the
Ministry
of
the
Word
,
with
a
Desire
and
Design
of
some
spiritual
Advantage
,
suitable
to
your
own
Case
.
Take
heed
of
being
slight
and
careless
in
the
use
of
those
Means
,
that
must
cure
a
hard
Heart
,
if
ever
it
be
cured
.
5.
In
the
〈◊〉
of
all
Means
,
look
up
to
God
for
〈◊〉
Influence
of
the
divine
Spirit
.
Apprehend
the
Necessity
of
it
,
for
the
Cure
of
a
hard
or
backsliding
Heart
.
6.
Call
your selves
often
to
an
Account
how
matters
stand
between
God
and
you
.
7.
Ingage
more
heartily
,
seriously
,
and
constantly
in
the
use
of
secret
Prayer
.
8.
Improve
the
sickness
and
Death
of
others
,
as
Warnings
to
awaken
the
Thoughts
of
your
own
.
9.
In
any
Doubt
and
Difficulty
of
Conscience
,
(
especially
under
Temptations
to
Despair
,
)
do
not
scruple
to
open
your
Case
to
some
faithful
Minister
of
Christ
,
that
may
enlighten
and
and
guide
you
.
10.
Labour
to
understand
distinctly
what
that
Repentance
towards
God
is
,
and
that
Faith
in
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
which
are
the
stated
Terms
of
Life
,
and
the
Condition
of
the
new
Covenant
.
And
never
give
over
the
use
of
Means
,
till
you
are
brought
to
Repent
of
all
your
sins
against
God
,
and
truly
to
believe
in
Jesus
Christ
with
all
your
Heart
;
evidencing
your
unfeigned
Faith
by
new
Obedience
.
Therefore
take
heed
by
what
Marks
and
Signs
you
Judge
your selves
,
lest
all
your
Soul
Trouble
should
end
in
a
false
Peace
.
I
connot
conclude
without
repeating
the
Admonition
against
that
false
Peace
,
which
one
great
Work
of
our
Ministry
is
to
destroy
.
For
there
are
Multitdes
of
People
who
pretend
to
love
God
,
and
to
love
good
Men
,
and
to
trust
in
Christ
that
he
dyed
for
them
,
and
to
rely
on
Christ
,
and
to
cast
themselves
on
Christ
,
and
think
they
believe
on
him
,
and
that
they
shall
be
saved
.
Who
will
tell
you
that
as
for
Obedience
,
they
mind
it
as
they
can
,
though
they
be
not
as
good
as
others
;
their
Hearts
are
good
,
and
they
mean
well
,
and
they
know
their
own
Hearts
better
than
Ministers
do
:
they
are
sure
they
believe
in
Christ
;
and
they
will
conclude
that
all
is
well
,
&c.
Tho
't
is
notorious
of
Many
such
,
that
they
are
Ignorant
of
God
,
and
strangers
to
Christ
,
and
live
in
the
common
allowed
practice
of
great
sins
.
Yet
they
will
thus
Hope
well
of
themselves
,
and
speak
Peace
to
themselves
.
NO
Wonder
if
they
do
so
now
,
when
even
at
the
Day
of
Judgment
some
are
brought
in
disputing
with
Christ
,
till
the
Heart
of
their
Hopes
〈◊〉
broken
by
his
condemning
Sen●ce
.
Not
as
if
those
that
now
dye
〈…〉
●●enitence
and
Unbelief
,
should
not
know
,
or
believe
that
they
shall
perish
for
ever
,
till
after
the
general
Judgment
.
But
matters
seem
there
to
be
represented
,
as
applied
to
the
Persons
of
those
who
shall
be
found
alive
at
the
End
of
this
World
,
or
whose
Eternal
State
in
the
next
World
is
concluded
,
by
what
their
Case
is
when
they
leave
this
state
of
salvation
.
SEE
Therefore
that
your
Hopes
be
of
a
right
Kind
,
grounded
on
Scripture
Evidence
,
pur●fying
the
Heart
,
conquering
the
World
,
exciting
thy
Desires
after
Christ
and
Heaven
,
making
thee
to
sin
less
,
and
to
please
and
glorifie
God
more
.
Such
an
Hope
you
may
hold
fast
,
it
will
not
make
you
ashamed
.
But
of
all
things
fear
a
false
Hope
.
Dread
it
as
you
would
the
sin
of
Despair
;
yea
as
the
most
dangerous
of
the
two
,
because
more
common
.
I
mean
not
a
Despair
of
the
sufficiency
and
Willingness
of
Christ
to
pardon
and
save
thee
,
if
thou
repent
,
and
believe
,
and
obey
him
;
Nor
a
Despair
of
finding
Mercy
,
if
thou
heartily
seek
it
.
But
despair
thou
must
of
ever
seeing
God
without
Holiness
.
Despair
that
Christ
will
ever
be
the
Author
of
eternal
Salvation
to
any
,
but
such
as
believe
and
obey
him
:
Despair
of
escaping
Eternal
Death
if
thou
live
after
the
Flesh
:
Despair
of
entering
into
Heaven
if
thou
wilt
not
seek
it
in
the
first
place
:
Despair
of
escaping
the
Doom
of
perishing
with
the
Ungodly
,
except
you
soundly
Repent
,
except
you
turn
to
God
,
and
Holiness
,
from
sin
and
the
World
;
except
you
penitently
and
thankfully
accept
of
Christ
,
obey
and
follow
him
as
your
Lord
and
Saviour
.
Despair
therefore
of
ever
being
saved
in
the
state
thou
art
in
,
with
whom
it
is
not
thus
.
GOD
will
ere
long
deal
plainly
with
thee
,
and
let
thee
know
the
Truth
.
And
what
will
it
avail
thy
perishing
Soul
,
for
Ministers
to
deceive
,
and
flatter
thee
with
vain
Hopes
;
when
,
without
Repentance
and
turning
to
God
in
Christ
,
there
is
none
?
Nay
if
any
thing
keep
thee
out
of
Heaven
,
(
I
speak
of
the
Case
of
most
ordinary
Hearers
,
and
Professors
,
)
If
any
●hing
keep
thee
out
of
Heaven
,
it
is
a
●se
and
groundless
Hope
of
coming
thi●●er
.
CHRISTIANS
,
We
must
〈…〉
speak
plain
.
Would
you
have
us
be
unfaithful
to
God
and
you
:
We
must
be
accountable
to
God
ere
long
,
as
well
as
you
:
We
must
stand
before
his
Judgment
seat
as
well
as
you
.
Why
should
we
give
you
Hopes
,
if
God
do
give
you
none
?
I
therefore
say
it
again
,
that
,
without
speedy
and
sincere
Repentance
towards
God
,
and
Faith
in
Jesus
Christ
,
evidenced
by
cordial
faithful
Obedience
to
him
,
there
is
no
Hope
,
for
any
one
of
you
.
And
they
that
hear
often
of
these
things
,
and
will
yet
go
on
in
sin
;
it
is
Just
with
God
to
leave
them
,
and
give
them
up
to
their
own
Hearts
Lust
.
Therefore
〈…〉
away
your
Transgressions
,
return
to
the
Lord
with
all
your
Hearts
,
and
yield
your selves
to
the
Claim
,
and
Call
of
Christ
without
Delay
,
while
Mercy
invites
you
,
and
Grace
may
be
had
,
for
why
will
you
Dye
,
O
House
of
Israel
?
FINIS
.