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<P>The only DELIVERER FROM Wrath to Come: OR, The Way to e&s;cape the horrible and Eternal Burnings of HELL. By <HI>Thomas Vincent,</HI> Sometime Mini&s;ter of <HI>Maudlins Milk-&s;treet, London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>George Calvert,</HI> and <HI>Samuel Sprint,</HI> and are to be Sold at the Golden <HI>Ball</HI> in <HI>Duck-lane.</HI> 1671.</P>
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<BIBL>1 The&s;. 1.</BIBL>
<Q><HI>Part of the 10th. Ver&s;.</HI> Even Je&s;us which delivered us from the Wrath to Come.</Q>
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<P>PA&s;t pains may ea&s;ily be forgotten, future pains are not ea&s;ily believed, pre&s;ent pains in ex|tremity are &s;o grievous and afflictive, that all the Wealth and Honour in the World cannot countervail them; and O how welcome is &s;uch a Phy&s;itian, who can give ea&s;e and remove them! But did people believingly apprehend what horrible pains and torments the wicked mu&s;t endure, in the un|quenchable Flames of Hell-fire, where they can have no ea&s;e, and their mi&s;ery &s;hall have no end; did they apprehend how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hands of the Living God, and to be &s;wallowed up by his Wrath, which hath all &s;uch, who are out of Chri&s;t, in the pur&s;uit; and which will certainly come, and may quickly &s;eize upon them, &s;urely they would u&s;e their uttermo&s;t diligence now to e&s;cape, &s;urely they would with the greate&s;t inqui&s;itivene&s;s &s;eek out now for a place of refuge, from the fiery Tempe&s;t of Gods Vengeance; and this Text which maketh a di&s;covery of <HI>the only Deliverer from the Wrath to Come,</HI> would found with mo&s;t tran&s;cendent &s;weet|ne&s;s in their ears, and the glad tidings thereof, con|cerning what Je&s;us hath done for his People, would above all things be mo&s;t welcome unto their Hearts. <HI>Even Je&s;us who delivered us from the Wrath to Come.</HI></P>
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<P>In the former Ver&s;e, the Apo&s;tle tells the <HI>The&s;&s;a|lonians</HI> what manner of entrance he had at fir&s;t a|mong&s;t them, and what the great effect of his Mini&s;try was upon them; namely, that they were converted thereby; which conver&s;ion of their's he &s;ets forth:</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> By the nature of it, they were turned from dead Idols, the lying Vanities which they wor&s;hip|ped and &s;erved before, unto the Living and true God to wor&s;hip and &s;erve him.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> By the con&s;equent of it, which was their waiting for the &s;econd coming of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t from Heaven; and he &s;hows</P>
<P N="1">1. The evidence of this &s;econd coming, that it will certainly be namely Gods rai&s;ing him from the dead, and receiving him to Heaven.</P>
<P N="2">2. The ground of their Hope and comfortable expectation, and waiting for this coming in the Text, becau&s;e this Je&s;us had delivered them from the Wrath to come. The wicked (if awakened) do look for Chri&s;t's &s;econd coming with dread and fear|full expectation, becau&s;e of the wrath which he will bring with him, becau&s;e he will come in flaming fire to take vengeance upon them; the righteous (if a&s;&s;ured of their inter&s;t in Chri&s;t) do look for Chri&s;t's &s;econd coming with gladne&s;s and joyful expectation, becau&s;e he hath delivered them from the wrath to come. <HI>E|ven Je&s;us who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.</HI> This Doctrine then is plain in the words.</P>
<Q><P><LABEL>Doct.</LABEL> That it is Je&s;us who doth deliver from the Wrath to come.</P></Q>
<P>In handling of which point I &s;hall &s;how,</P>
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<ITEM><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> What this wrath is which is to come.</ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>Secondly,</HI> That this wrath is to come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thirdly,</HI> Upon whom this wrath is to come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fourthly,</HI> When this wrath will come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fifthly,</HI> Who this Je&s;us is that doth deliver from wrath to come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sixthly,</HI> How Je&s;us doth deliver from wrath to come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Seventhly,</HI> How any do or may have a &s;hare in this deliverance by Je&s;us from wrath to come.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eighthly,</HI> Make &s;ome u&s;e and application.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Fir&s;t; What this Wrath is which is to come;</HI> It is not the finite wrath of the mo&s;t furious and feirce Creatures, not the wrath of Lions, or Bears, or Ti|gers, or evening Wolves, or wild Bulls; nor the wrath of the mo&s;t Potent and Tyrannical men, who may exceed all the&s;e in feircene&s;s and cruelty; nei|ther is it the wrath of the Devil, who&s;e wrath is great here on Earth, when let loo&s;e to tempt and deceive, but mo&s;t furiou&s;ly will it expre&s;s it &s;elf hereafter in Hell, when he is let loo&s;e as Gods Exe|cutioner to torment the wicked: But by the wrath to come, we are to under&s;tand the Infinite wrath of the Sin-revenging God, in compari&s;on with which the wrath of all other Creatures in the World is mildne&s;s, and not in the lea&s;t to be regarded.</P>
<P>We read in the Scripture of the Wine of God's wrath, <HI>Rev.</HI> 14. 10, That this Wine is Red, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 75. 8. We read of the Viols of Gods wrath, <HI>Rev.</HI> 16. 1. Of the Cup of Gods wrath, <HI>Rev.</HI> 14. 10. Of the Wine-pre&s;s of Gods wrath, <HI>Rev.</HI> 14. 19. We read of the Trea&s;ures of God's wrath, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 5. Of the Ve&s;els of Gods wrath, <HI>Rom.</HI> 9. 22. By the Wine of God's wrath, we are to under&s;tand tho&s;e plagues and puni&s;hments which God doth and will
<PB N="6" REF="4"> inflict upon the wicked for their &s;ins: By the Red|ne&s;s of the Wine is meant the dreadfulne&s;s of tho&s;e plagues; By the viols of Gods wrath, &s;ome &s;maller plagues and temporal puni&s;hment on Earth; By the the Cup of Gods wrath, e&s;pecially the dregs and bottom of it, the greater plagues and eternal puni&s;h|ment of Hell; By the Wine-pre&s;s of Gods wrath, we are to under&s;tand the place where the wicked &s;hall be puni&s;hed; By the Trea&s;ures of Gods wrath the abun|dance of Plagues; By the Ve&s;&s;els of wrath, the damned who are appointed to undergo the&s;e plagues and tor|ments; the&s;e Ve&s;&s;els God will fill with the Trea&s;ures of his wrath, he will fill them to the Brim in Hell with mo&s;t exqui&s;ite torments; And this is the wrath which is to come, which will be mo&s;t bitter beyond any gall or Worm-wood unto the ta&s;t; which will be mo&s;t pure without any allay or mixture of any comforta|ble ingredients; which will be mo&s;t plentiful, the Trea&s;ures of which will be opened in Hell, and all the damned be filled with it abundantly; which will be mo&s;t weighty beyond any Mountain of Lead, to &s;ink Sinners down into the bottemle&s;s pit; which will be mo&s;t feirce, and withal &s;o powerful, that all the powers of Men and Devils &s;hall not be able to make the lea&s;t re&s;i&s;tance; which will be intollerable and yet mu&s;t be bourn; which will be unplacable, &s;o as never to be appea&s;ed, and which will be eter|nal, &s;o as never to be ended.</P>
<P>Plainly the wrath to come, is of the &s;ame &s;ignifica|tion as the puni&s;hment of Hell, the great effect of the wrath of God; which puni&s;hment hath two parts, the <HI>Paena damni,</HI> and the <HI>Paena &s;en&s;us,</HI> the puni&s;h|ment of lo&s;&s;e, and the puni&s;hment of &s;en&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. The puni&s;hment of lo&s;&s;e, this will con&s;i&s;t in
<PB N="7" REF="4"> the lo&s;&s;e of the Crown and Glory, and happine&s;s of Heaven, where the righteous &s;hall be admitted to the immediate Vi&s;ion, and full fruition of God the chiefe good, which will fill them with Soul-ravi&s;h|ing unconceivable and eternal joy; but from whence all the wicked &s;hall be eternally &s;hut out, and wholly be denied any &s;hare in the lea&s;t of that happine&s;s, which when they come to under&s;tand the worth and excellency of, will above all things be mo&s;t vexatious unto them.</P>
<P N="2">2. The puni&s;hment of &s;en&s;e, this will con&s;i&s;t in the horrible pains and tortures, which &s;hall in extre|mity be inflicted upon every part of the bodies of all the wicked, by the mo&s;t dreadful and unquenchable Fire, which they &s;hall be thrown into; and the more horrible angui&s;h, which through the immediate im|impre&s;&s;ions of Gods wrath, &s;hall be inflicted upon every faculty of their &s;ouls in Hell, where they &s;hall have no ea&s;e nor relea&s;e for ever, <HI>Matth. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cur&s;ed into everla&s;ting Fire, prepa|red for the Devill and his Angels, Rev. 14. 10, 11. The &s;ame &s;hall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his indignation, and &s;hall be tormented with Fire and Brim|&s;tone in the pre&s;ence of the Holy Angels, and in the pre|&s;ence of the Lamb: And the &s;moke of their torment a&s;cendeth up for ever and ever, and they have no re&s;t Day nor Night,</HI> &amp;c. See more of this in my Book of <HI>Chri&s;t's certain and &s;udden Appearance to Judgement,</HI> and in my Book of <HI>Fire and Brim&s;tone,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly, That this Wrath of God is to come,</HI> this im|ply&s;eth two things:</P>
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<ITEM>1. That this Wrath is not yet come</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That it will certainly come.</ITEM>
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<P N="1">1. This wrath of God is not yet come; were it come, who could &s;tand before it? who could deliver from it? where it &s;ei&s;eth it cru&s;heth, it burneth, and that wor&s;e than any fire; where it &s;ei&s;eth it holds, and never letteth go it's hold for ever; but as yet this is not come, &s;ome &s;parks of this fire may be let fall in temporal judgements upon &s;inners in this life, but what are temporal judgements in com|pari&s;on with eternal? In this world God doth ex|erci&s;e his patience towards the wicked, he is angry with them, and his anger doth &s;moke again&s;t them, but he with-holds his wrath from breaking forth into a flame, which would quickly devour all the wicked of the Earth together, &s;hould he give way to it, and let it loo&s;e upon them: Indeed we read <HI>John</HI> 3. 36. That the wrath of God abideth upon unbelievers, that is, it &s;hall abide upon them, who at la&s;t are found in a &s;tate of unbelief, as &s;urely as if it did already abide upon them; or the wrath of God abideth up|on unbelievers, that is the &s;entence of condemnation unto this wrath doth abide upon them, as <HI>John 3. 18. He that believeth not is condemned already.</HI> In|deed it is &s;aid of the per&s;ecuting Jews, who had kil|led the Lord Je&s;us, and their own Prophets, and for|bidden the Apo&s;tles to Preach unto the Gentils, that <HI>the wrath was come upon them to the uttermo&s;t, 1 The&s;.</HI> 2. 15, 16. But this we are thus to under&s;tand: that the wrath of God was come upon them to the utter|mo&s;t, not in regard of eternal judgements, but in regard of &s;piritual judgements, it being the utter|mo&s;t expre&s;&s;ion of God's Wrath, here to give &s;inners up unto a per&s;ecuting &s;pirit, which doth prepare them for the uttermo&s;t and mo&s;t dreadful puni&s;h|ment of Hell hereafter. But as yet the wrath of God
<PB REF="5"> is not come, none in this world do or can know the power of God's anger.</P>
<P N="2">2. The wrath of God is to come, that is, it will certainly come, there are &s;ome things which may come, &s;uch and &s;uch temporal judgements may come, &s;uch and &s;uch deliverances may come; but there are &s;ome things which will come, Death will come, and Chri&s;t will come, and as certainly as Death and Chri&s;t will come, &s;o certainly this wrath of God will come; God hath foretold it, and Heaven and Earth &s;hall pa&s;s away, but not one jot or tittle of what God hath foretold until it be fulfilled: God hath threatned it, and God is not more faithful in his promi&s;es to his people, than he is true in his threatnings to his enemies. God's ju&s;tice doth en|gage him to &s;end it, which can be &s;atisfyed no other way, by tho&s;e which have no intere&s;t in the &s;atisfa|ction of Chri&s;t. The wicked are Ve&s;&s;els fitted by &s;in for de&s;truction, and prepared for wrath, and therefore they &s;hall be filled with it, even as the Ve&s;|&s;els of Mercy are fitted, and &s;hall be filled with glo|ry: God hath Trea&s;ured up wrath for the wicked, as they have Trea&s;ured up Sin, and God will give them that which they have &s;o much de&s;erved, and he hath prepared for them. However Sinners may e&s;cape this wrath for a while, and vainly hope to flee or hid them&s;elves from the &s;trokes of Gods vengeance, yet Gods Right hand will find out all tho&s;e that hate him, and he will make them as a fiery Oven in the time of his anger, and &s;wallow them up in his wrath, and devour them with the fire of his indignation, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 21. 8, 9.</P>
<P><HI>Thirdly, &V;pon whom will this wra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h of God come?</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. This wrath of God will come upon all the chil|dren
<PB N="10" REF="6"> of di&s;obedience, &s;ee <HI>Col. 3. 5, 6. Mortifie there|fore your members, which are upon the Earth, Fornica|tion, &V;ncleanne&s;s, inordinate affection, evil concupi|&s;cen&s;e, and covetou&s;ne&s;s, which is Idolatry: for which things &s;ake the wrath of God cometh on the children of di&s;obedience.</HI> Such are children of di&s;obedience, who are di&s;obedient children, &s;uch who do nor yield obe|dience unto the Law of God, but live and allow them&s;elves in the practice of known &s;ins, and in the neglect of known duties; &s;uch who are under the reigning power of &s;in, who are willing &s;ervants of &s;in, who yeild up their members as In&s;truments of unrighteou&s;ne&s;s unto &s;in, as <HI>Rom.</HI> 6. 13. Who &s;erve divers lu&s;ts, <HI>Tit.</HI> 3. 3. Who make provi&s;ion for the Fle&s;h, to fulfil the lu&s;ts thereof, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 14. Such who are Bla&s;phemers, or Swearers, or Sabbath-brea|kers, or Murderers, or Adulterers, or Drunkards, or Thieves, or Covetous, or Unrighteous, or Extor|tioners, or Revilers, or Scoffers at Religion, or Per|&s;ecutors of Gods people, or have an enmity to the power of Godline&s;s; &s;uch as are Proud and Boa&s;ters, &s;uch as are di&s;obedient to Parents without natural affection, &s;uch as are lovers of plea&s;ures more than lovers of God, &s;uch as are Lyars and unfaithful, &s;uch as are idle and &s;lothful, &s;uch as live in envy and ma|lice, and are given to revenge, and cannot forgive injuries, and the like &s;inners, the&s;e are Children of di&s;obedience upon whom the wrath of God will come; &s;ee al&s;o <HI>Ephe&s;. 5. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words; for becau&s;e of the&s;e things cometh the wrath of God upon the Children of di&s;obedience.</HI> Let none deceive you with vain words, neither deceive your &s;elves with vain thoughts, as if you might e&s;cape the wrath of God, although you live in the practice
<PB N="11" REF="6"> of &s;uch and &s;uch &s;ins, &s;ee how vain and groundle&s;s the &s;ecurity of &s;uch per&s;ons is, <HI>Deut. 28. 19, 20. Le&s;t there be among you a root that beareth Gall and Worm-wood; and it come to pa&s;s when he heareth the Words of this cur&s;e, that he ble&s;&s;eth him&s;elf in his heart: &s;aying, I &s;hall have peace, though I walk in the imagina|tion of my heart, to add Drunkenne&s;s to thir&s;t: The Lord will not &s;pare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealou&s;ie &s;hall &s;moke again&s;t that man, and all the cur&s;es that are written in this Book &s;hall lye upon him, and the Lord &s;hall blot out his name from under Heaven:</HI> Moreover we read, <HI>Gal. 3. 13. Cur&s;ed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them.</HI> Such as are guilty of any tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the Law, (whil&s;t out of Chri&s;t) are under the cur&s;e, and lyable unto Gods Wrath, and it is &s;aid, <HI>Heb. 3. 2. That every tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion and di&s;obedience received a ju&s;t recompence of reward.</HI> Hence it is that the children of di&s;obe|dience are called children of Wrath, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2. 2, 3.</P>
<P N="2">2. The wrath of God will come upon all Hypo|crites, it is more peculiarly appropriated unto them as their portion, <HI>Matth. 24. 51. He &s;hall cut him a&s;under, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there &s;hall be weeping and gna&s;hing of Teeth.</HI> Who|ever e&s;cape Gods wrath, hypocrites &s;hall not e&s;cape, whoever are pardoned hypocrites &s;hall be puni&s;hed; &s;uch as have a form of Godline&s;s, but deny the power thereof; &s;uch as make &s;ome &s;how of outward reformation, but are without inward transforma|tion, &s;uch as are like Painted Sepulchres, fair and beautiful without, but within full of rottenne&s;s; &s;uch who make it their great bu&s;ine&s;s to appear Re|ligious, and take no care to be Religious, but are
<PB N="12" REF="7"> rotten at heart and cover carnal de&s;igns with a cloke of profe&s;&s;ion; as their &s;in is mo&s;t offen&s;ive unto God here, &s;o his wrath will certainly come upon them, with the greate&s;t &s;everity hereafter.</P>
<P>3. The wrath of God will come upon all impeni|tent and unbelieving per&s;ons, <HI>Luke</HI> 13. 3. <HI>Except ye repent ye &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h, Mark. 16. 16. He that believeth not &s;hall be damned,</HI> Repentance and Faith are two great duties of the Go&s;pel, and wrath is particularly threatned to &s;uch as do not obey the Go&s;pel: to &s;uch God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and angui&s;h, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2. 8, 9. And Chri&s;t will come in flaming Fire, to take vengeance upon them, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 1. 8. Such as are impenitent and unbelievers, neglect the Salvation of the Go&s;pel which by Faith in Chri&s;t alone is attainable, and &s;in|ning again&s;t the only remedy, they cannot e&s;cape, <HI>Heb.</HI> 2. 3. <HI>How &s;hall we e&s;cape if we neglect &s;o great Salvation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fourthly, When this wrath of God will come.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The wrath of God will come in part upon the wicked immediately, after the &s;eparation of their Soul from the Body, the &s;ouls of the wicked a&s;&s;oon as they are loo&s;ned by death from the ruinous Habi|tation of their bodies, they pre&s;ently appear before God, and are condemned to Hell, and dragd by the Devil the Jaylor into that Pri&s;on, where they are bound in Chains of Darkne&s;s, filled with horrour and angui&s;h, until the day of eternal Judgement. The Scripture tells us of di&s;obedient Spirits thrown into Pri&s;on, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 19, 20.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Wrath of God will come in full upon all the wicked together at the la&s;t day, called the day of Judgement and Perdition of the Ungodly, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.
<PB N="13" REF="7"> 7. When the Lord Je&s;us &s;hall come to Judge the World, he will bring the Trea&s;ures of Gods wrath with him, and render unto all the wicked that wrath and vengeance which is their due, and therefore this day is called <HI>The day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgement of God, Rom.</HI> 2. 5. This will be a dreadful day unto the wicked, when the Hea|vens &s;hall pa&s;s away with a great noi&s;e, and like a Stoll be rolled together, and the Elements &s;hall melt with frevent heat and be di&s;&s;olved; when the Sun &s;hall become black as Sack-cloth of Hair, and the Moon become like Blood, when the powers of Hea|ven &s;hall be &s;haken, and the Stars &s;hall fall from Heaven unto the Earth like Figgs from their Tree, when it is &s;haken with a mighty Wind; when there &s;hall be Thunderings exceeding loud, and Lightnings and Tempe&s;t exceeding horrid, when the la&s;t Trumpet &s;hall &s;ound, and a mighty &s;hout &s;hall come down from above, and awaken all the Sinners that are a&s;leep in the du&s;t; when Chri&s;t the great Judge of the World &s;hall come forth from his Fathers hou&s;e, and make his appearance in the World with Millions of mighty Angels, and all the Saints at his right hand, clothed with Maje&s;ty and brightne&s;s of Glory; and when the wicked &s;hall come forth of their Graves, and &s;o &s;oon as they &s;hall open their eyes, &s;hall &s;ee Heaven and Earth on Fire about their Ears, and the Lord Je&s;us coming towards them in flaming Fire to take vengeance upon them; &s;o &s;oon as they open their ears, &s;hall hear the dreadful Trum|pet and Shout in the Air, and the Howlings and La|mentations of all their fellow Sinners about them upon the Earth, O the dread and confu&s;ion which the wicked then &s;hall be filled with! when they are
<PB N="14" REF="8"> &s;ummoned and dragged to the Tribunal Seat of Chri&s;t, and there have the Books opened before them, where all their fins are written, and which then will be made manife&s;t unto the whole World, and when the Sentence <HI>Depart ye cur&s;ed into everla&s;ting Fire,</HI> &s;hall be pa&s;&s;ed upon them, and when the Lord &s;hall open the Trea&s;ures of Wrath unto them, and give them that portion thereof which is their due; and when they &s;hall &s;ee the mouth of Hell open beneath them, and an horrible flame i&s;&s;uing forth from thence, giving notice of a more horrible fire within, which is prepared for them; O the dread! O the &s;hreeks! Who can dwell with &s;uch devouring Fire? Who can inhabit &s;uch everla&s;ting burnings? How welcome would a great Rock or Mountain be, if they could find any that would fall upon them, and hid them from the wrath of the Lamb, and keep off the &s;trokes of Gods vengeance, which then will be inflicted up|on them? but the Sentence being pronounced, the Execution will follow, and none can e&s;cape it; from Chri&s;t's tribunal Seat the wicked will be rhrown into the fiery Pri&s;on of Hell, where they will be &s;hut down, and &s;hut in, and that for ever; there they will lye, there they will fry, and there they will cry, and though always dying, yet they will never dye; the fire there will burn mo&s;t dreadfully and conti|nually, and never be extingui&s;hed; and the wicked will be tormented there in every part and in extre|mity, and their torment will never be ended.</P>
<P><HI>Fifthly, Who this Je&s;us is, that doth deliver from Wrath to come?</HI> In the Text he is called Je&s;us, and the rea&s;on of this name we &s;hall find, <HI>Matth.</HI> 1. 21. <HI>Thou &s;halt call his Name Je&s;us, for he &s;hall Save his People from their Sins.</HI> This Je&s;us is <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">
<PB N="15" REF="8"> God and Man in one Per&s;on; he is the Eternal Son of God of the &s;ame E&s;&s;ence with the Father, equal to him in Power and Glory, who before the world, was appointed in time to be the Redeemer of Man|kind, and when the fulne&s;s of time was come, took to him&s;elf a true humane Body and Soul, was con|ceived by the Holy Gho&s;t, was Born of a mean Virgin, lived in a mean condition, was owned by a voice from Heaven to be the only begotten and beloved Son of God, who Preached the glad tidings of Salvation to Sinners, confirmed his Doctrine by many Miracles; who died for the Salvation of &s;in|ners, and that the cur&s;ed death of the Cro&s;s, was rai&s;ed up the third day, appeared to his Di&s;ciples after his Re&s;urrection, and after forty day in the &s;ight of many A&s;cended up into Heaven, where now he is at the Right Hand of God, making Interce&s;&s;ion for us.</P>
<P><HI>Sixthly. How doth Je&s;us deliver from the Wrath of God which is to come?</HI> Je&s;us doth deliver from the wrath of God which is to come.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>By his Death,</HI> hereby he hath purcha&s;ed deli|verance, having hereby &s;atisfied Gods Ju&s;tice; Je&s;us in his death did in our &s;tead undergo that puni&s;hment which our &s;ins de&s;erved, his Body was nailed to the Cro&s;s, which was a cur&s;ed death, and his Soul was afflicted with the immediate impre&s;&s;ions of Gods wrath, which was &s;o weighty and grievous, that any meer creature would have &s;unk under it; but he being God-Man did bear up and break thorow, and got loo&s;e from under the burden of wrath, and the bands of death, and the dignity of his per&s;on put a merit upon his &s;ufferings, e&s;pecially the erernal compact or aggreement between him and his Father
<PB N="16" REF="9"> being &s;uch, and &s;o became a &s;ufficient &s;atisfaction to Ju&s;tice, and that accepted as fully as if &s;inners had done it in their own per&s;ons. We read that Je&s;us <HI>him&s;elf bare our &s;ins in his own body on the Tree,</HI> 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. 24. That <HI>he gave his life a ran&s;om for many, Mat.</HI> 20. 28. That we are <HI>Redeemed with his Blood,</HI> 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1. 18, 19. That we are <HI>Reconciled through his Death, Rom.</HI> 5. 10. Je&s;us doth deliver from wrath by his death, having therein undergone it him&s;elf in the room of his People.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>By his Interce&s;&s;ion</HI> Chri&s;t doth deliver from wrath to come; having offered up him&s;elf a Sacrifice to &s;atisfie Divine Ju&s;tice for &s;in, he pleads the merit of it at the right hand of God, in the behalf of &s;in|ners for their Redemption; he is called not only our <HI>Surety</HI> to &s;atisfie for us, <HI>Heb.</HI> 7. 22. But al&s;o our <HI>Advocate</HI> to Plead for us, 1 <HI>John</HI> 2. 1. Our delive|rance from Wrath to come, the damnation and pu|ni&s;hment of Hell doth proceed not onely from Chri&s;t's death, whereby he hath purcha&s;ed it, but al|&s;o from his Interce&s;&s;ion, whereby he doth effectual|ly impetrate and obtain it; and therefore the Apo|&s;tle doth join both together in the procurement of freedom from condemnation. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 34. <HI>Who is he that condemneth? It is Chri&s;t that died, yea, rather is ri&s;en again, who is even at the right hand of God, who al&s;o maketh incerce&s;&s;ion for us.</HI> And upon this account he is &s;aid to be able to Save unto the utter|mo&s;t, <HI>Heb.</HI> 7. 25. <HI>Wherefore he is able to Save them to the uttermo&s;t; that to come unto God by him, &s;eeing he ever liveth to make interce&s;&s;ion for them.</HI></P>
<P>3. <HI>By his Mi&s;&s;ion, or &s;ending of his Spirit effectu|ally to call People to him&s;elf</HI> Je&s;us doth bring them into a &s;tate of Salvation, and giveth them an actual
<PB N="17" REF="9"> Intere&s;t in this deliverance, which he hath purcha&s;ed for them, and this leads to the next particular,</P>
<P><HI>Seventhly, How any do or may have a &s;hare in this de|liverance by Je&s;us, from wrath to come?</HI> this is by faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, which is wrought by his Spirit in effectual calling. When the Lord by his Spirit doth open the eyes of Sinners, and convinceth them of the guilt and evil of their &s;ins; awakeneth their con&s;cience, and worketh contrition, and a &s;en&s;e of their mi&s;ery and danger; and when the Lord &s;how|eth and per&s;wadeth them, how utterly unable they are to Save them&s;elves, that no reformation or righ|teou&s;ne&s;s of their own, which either they have or can attain unto, can procure deliverance from wrath for them; and withal, that no meer Creature in the World is able to help them in this ca&s;e; and when the Lord by his Spirit doth di&s;cover him&s;elf, as the only Saviour and All-&s;ufficient, and mo&s;t willing to &s;ave and deliver them, and withal doth mo&s;t power|fully and irre&s;i&s;tably, and yet mo&s;t &s;weetly how their wills, and encline them to chu&s;e him for their Savi|our, and (grieving for &s;in and renouncing their own righteou&s;ne&s;s) to call them&s;elves, and re&s;t upon him alone for Salvation, and this accompained with a free, and re&s;olved delivering them&s;elves up to his Teaching and Government; this is effectual calling, wherein the Lord by his Spirit doth draw, and lay hold on Sinners, and enableth them by faith to lay hold on him, and hence ari&s;eth their union to, and Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, and they come to have a &s;hare in the deliverance by Chri&s;t from wrath to come. When the <HI>Jaylor</HI> cryed out with trembling to <HI>Paul</HI> and <HI>Silas; Sirs, what mu&s;t I do to be &s;aved;</HI> the di|rection is, <HI>Believe in the Lord Je&s;us, and thou &s;halt be
<PB N="18" REF="10"> Saved, Act.</HI> 16. 30, 31. It is Faith that giveth an Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, and hereby an Intere&s;t in the de|liverance, which he hath purcha&s;ed. It is Faith doth unite us unto Chri&s;t, whereby we are &s;aid to be in him, and there is no condemnation to them, which are in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 1. We are ju&s;ti|fied by Faith, <HI>Rom.</HI> 5. 1, And &s;o are ab&s;olved from the guilt of Sin, and all obligation unto puni&s;h|ment; The Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t having fully &s;atisfied Gods ju&s;tice for our &s;ins by his death in our &s;tead, and this being imputed unto us through Faith, and accounted as if we had done it our &s;elves, (as a &s;ure|ty's paying our Debt, is accounted by the Creditor as if we had paid it,) we are acquitted, and no more expo&s;ed unto the wrath of God, and puni&s;hment of Hell, than if we had never committed any one &s;in to de&s;erve it.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>U&s;e 1. For Information.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. See here <HI>the worth of Je&s;us,</HI> he is the Deliverer, and the only Deliverer from wrath to come; Je&s;us Chri&s;t is a per&s;on of the greate&s;t worth in him&s;elf; the Divine and Humane Nature, being united in him, rendereth him infinitely glorious, altogether lovely, and hence it is that he is replini&s;hed with &s;uch tran&s;cendent excellencies and perfections, as are not to be found again in any. Creature, either in Earth or Heaven; and Je&s;us Chri&s;t is e&s;teemed to be the mo&s;t worthy per&s;on, by tho&s;e that know him and under&s;tand what real worth is; e&s;pecially, &s;in|ners when awakened, and made &s;en&s;ible of the cur&s;e which lyeth upon them for &s;in, and the wrath of God which hangeth over them, and when they come to apprehend how fearful a thing it is to fall
<PB N="19" REF="10"> under the &s;trokes of Gods vengeance, and &s;ee no way of e&s;cape, but only by Je&s;us, the only Deliverer from future wrath, of all per&s;ons and things in the World, Je&s;us Chri&s;t is mo&s;t precious unto them; never did there appear in the world a per&s;on of &s;uch high dignity, of &s;uch admirable beauty, and &s;uch wonderful Love as the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who came down from the Father, and clothed him&s;elf with our nature, for this end, that he might become our Savi|our and Redeemer, our Surety and Advocat, and that he might deliver us from wrath to come.</P>
<P N="2">2. See here the <HI>value of Chri&s;t's Death; without &s;hedding of Blood there is no Remi&s;&s;ion, Heb.</HI> 9. 22. And if no remi&s;&s;ion, then no deliverance from wrath to come, if guilt doth remain, puni&s;hment will en&s;ue, and that of God's eternal wrath in Hell; It was not the blood of Bulls and Goats, Sacrificed under the Law that could remove guilt, and procure remi&s;&s;ion of Sin. <HI>Heb.</HI> 10. 4. <HI>For it is not po&s;&s;ible that the blood of Bulls and Goats &s;hould take away Sin.</HI> But it was through Chri&s;t's Sacrifice of him&s;elf once for all, and &s;hedding of his blood upon the Cro&s;s, that Remi&s;&s;i|on of &s;ins, and by con&s;equence this deliverance from wrath to come was purcha&s;ed; It was not thou|&s;ands of Rams, or ten thou&s;and rivers of Oil, or all the Trea&s;ures of the Earth, that could have procu|red remi&s;&s;ion of Sin, becau&s;e all this would have been no &s;atisfaction unto Gods Ju&s;tice; but the Blood of Je&s;us, who is God-man, hath &s;atisfied Gods Ju&s;tice, by his death, Chri&s;t hath paid the full price, which was due for &s;in, &s;urely then his death is of greater value, than the riches (were there &s;o many) of ten thou&s;and worlds.</P>
<P N="3">3. Here &s;ee the <HI>excellency of Faith,</HI> we read in the
<PB N="20" REF="11"> fir&s;t Epi&s;tle of <HI>Peter,</HI> of a precious Chri&s;t, <HI>Chap.</HI> 2. 7. And of Chri&s;t's precious Blood, <HI>Chap.</HI> 1. 19. And of precious Faith al&s;o, <HI>Chap.</HI> 1. 7. Of all other graces, Faith is called precious, and it hath above other graces a peculiar excellency, not in re&s;pect of it &s;elf &s;o much, but in regard of it's object, as it doth give Intere&s;t in the precious Chri&s;t, and make appli|cation of his precious Blood, whereby we come to attain a &s;hare in this deliverance by Chri&s;t from wrath to come. Chri&s;t is mo&s;t precious, as the Au|thor of our deliverance; Chri&s;t death is mo&s;t pre|cious, as the merit of our deliverance; and Faith is mo&s;t precious, as the in&s;trument of our delive|rance.</P>
<P N="4">4. Here &s;ee what a <HI>Priviledge it is to have the Go|&s;pel Preached among&s;t us,</HI> which is a means to make di&s;covery unto us of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the only Delive|rer from wrath to come; as al&s;o to work Faith in us (which cometh by hearing, <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 17.) Where|by alone we come to have Intere&s;t in <HI>Je&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t, and his deliverance. Such as are without the Go&s;pel are in darkne&s;s and unbelief, and are ha&s;tening for|ward, towards the regions of eternal darkne&s;s, and they know not whither they are going; It is of more u&s;e to have the Light of the Go&s;pel, than to have the light of the Sun, and the total removal of this light is a greater judgement than any temporal cala|mity, &s;ince it is the means to prevent eternal mi|&s;ery.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>&V;&s;e 2. For Examination.</HEAD>
<P>Is Je&s;us the only Deliverer from wrath to come? it concerneth all of you them to examine your &s;elves, whether you have an Intere&s;t in this Je&s;us, and the deliverance from wrath, which he hath purcha&s;ed,
<PB N="21" REF="11"> and through him alone is to be obtain'd. All of you are Sinners, you were born in &s;in, and you have liv'd in &s;in, and &s;hould you dye in &s;in too, as certain|ly as the guilt of &s;in doth lye upon you, &s;o certainly will the wrath of God come upon you; without an Intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t there can be no e&s;caping for you; you may know whether you have an Intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t by your <HI>Faith,</HI> by your <HI>Life,</HI> by your <HI>Love,</HI> by your <HI>Likene&s;s,</HI> and by your <HI>Obedience.</HI></P>
<P>1. If you have an Intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, then you have <HI>Faith,</HI> I don't mean an Hi&s;torical Faith, only to believe the Hi&s;tory and report, which the Go&s;pel doth give of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, what he hath done and &s;uf|fered, nor a temporary Faith, which is the food pre|&s;umption of &s;ome formal hypocrites, whereby they may &s;eem to cleave unto Chri&s;t, when indeed their hearts cleave chiefly to &s;in, whereby through mi&s;|apprehen&s;ion of Go&s;pel Priviledges, and mi&s;applica|tion of Go&s;pel promi&s;es, they may attain unto &s;ome kind of fle&s;hly love and joy, which endures but a while, and they u&s;ually if put upon great tryals do end in open Apo&s;tacy: But if you have an Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t indeed, you have a true ju&s;tifying Faith, whereby being fir&s;t convinced of &s;in, humbled and emptied of your &s;elves, re&s;olvedly parting with all your &s;ins as to affection, and &s;incerely renouncing all your own righteou&s;ne&s;s as to dependance, you ca&s;t your &s;elves upon Chri&s;t, lean and depend upon him, expecting remi&s;&s;ion and Salvation, alone through his perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s made yours by imputation. Have you by Faith di&s;cerned Chri&s;t? have you by Faith applyed Chri&s;t? are you by Faith joyned unto Chri&s;t? have you been by Faith taken off your own bottoms, and built upon Chri&s;t the chief corner
<PB N="22" REF="12"> &s;tone? have you by Faith been cut off your old Stock, and engro&s;&s;ed into Chri&s;t the choice Vine? have you by Faith been divor&s;ed from &s;in, and mar|ried unto Chri&s;t the be&s;t Husband? are you indeed got unto, and into Chri&s;t by Faith? and have you received him into your hearts by Faith? without this true faith, there can be no true union to Chri&s;t, without union to Chri&s;t, there can be no Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, without Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, there can be no re|mi&s;&s;ion of &s;in, no Salvation and deliverance from wrath to come.</P>
<P>2. If you have an Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, you have <HI>Life, 1 John 5. 12. He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life.</HI> He that hath an Intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, the Son of God, hath life, he &s;hall have Eternal life hereafter, and he hath Spi|ritual life, which is eternal life begun here; &s;uch be&s;ides their natural life, which they receiv'd from their Parents in their generation, they have a prin|ciple of &s;piritual life, which they receive from the Spirit of God, in their regeneration; they are the only per&s;ons that are quickned from their Spiritual death; but he that hath not the Son hath not life; &s;uch &s;hall never &s;ee life hereafter, but the wrath of God abideth on them, <HI>John</HI> 3. 36. And they are &s;piritually dead here, they are dead in tre&s;pa&s;&s;es and &s;ins, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2. 1. You may know whether you have an Intere&s;t in Je&s;us Chri&s;t by your &s;piritual Life, I do not &s;ay by your con&s;tant liveline&s;s, this may be wanting at &s;ometimes in true believers, but you may know it by your &s;piritual life; you were dead, but you are alive; and you may know your &s;piritual life, by your &s;piritual motion from &s;in and towards God, by your &s;piritual &s;en&s;es to di&s;cern between
<PB N="23" REF="12"> good and evil, by your &s;piritual appetite after Chri&s;t and his righteou&s;ne&s;s, and communion with God in his ordinances, and the like; if the&s;e be no &s;ymp|toms of this &s;piritual life in you, it is a &s;ign that Chri&s;t is not in you, and if Chri&s;t be not in you, you have no Intere&s;t in him and his deliverance.</P>
<P>3. If you have an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, you have <HI>Love;</HI> you love Chri&s;t in &s;incerity, <HI>Eph. 6. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Je&s;us in &s;in|cerity;</HI> and you love Chri&s;t with the &s;upremacy of your love, <HI>Matth. 10. 37. He that loveth Father or Mother, Son or Daughter more then me, is not worthy of me.</HI> If any Man or Woman love any per&s;on or thing in the world more than Je&s;us Chri&s;t, they are unworthy of him, and they have no intere&s;t in him, or any of his benefits, and therefore a dreadful cur&s;e is pronounced upon &s;uch as do not love Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor. 16. 22. If any man love not the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, let him be Anathema Maranatha;</HI> that is, let him be cur&s;ed until the Lord come, and when the Lord cometh, the wrath of God al&s;o will come upon him.</P>
<P>If you have an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, you have <HI>like|ne&s;s,</HI> you are like unto Chri&s;t, you have his Image upon you, Je&s;us Chri&s;t is formed in you, <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 19. You are like to Chri&s;t in your di&s;po&s;ition, in humili|ty, meekne&s;s, Heavenline&s;s, and the like; you are not perfectly like to him, yet in &s;ome mea&s;ure, and you imitate him more and more, and endeavour af|ter more conformity unto his Image; where Pride Reigns in&s;tead of Humility, where inordidate anger reigns in&s;tead of meekne&s;s, where malice and revenge reigns in&s;tead of Love and forgivene&s;s, where the love of the world reigns in&s;tead of Heavenly minded,
<PB N="24" REF="13"> ne&s;s, where evil concupi&s;cence reigns in&s;tead of mor|tified affections, &s;uch are without likene&s;s to Chri&s;t, and they are without intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, they that are gracele&s;s, are al&s;o Chri&s;tle&s;s, and they cannot e&s;cape future wrath.</P>
<P>5. If you have an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, you have <HI>Obe|dience;</HI> your Faith &s;howeth it &s;elf in your works, <HI>Sam.</HI> 2. 18. And your love &s;heweth it &s;elf in your keeping Chri&s;t's Commandments, <HI>John</HI> 14. 21. Such as do not obey Chri&s;t's, but ca&s;t his Command|ments behinds their back, and will not that this Lord &s;hould rule over them, they have neither Faith, nor Love, nor Life, nor Likene&s;s unto Chri&s;t, and there|fore be &s;ure no intere&s;t in him.</P>
<P>Try your intere&s;t in Chri&s;t the only Deliverer from future wrath by the&s;e marks.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>&V;&s;e 3. For Reproof and Terrour.</HEAD>
<P>If upon &s;earch, you find you are without an inte|re&s;t in Chri&s;t; &s;uffer the word of reproof. Sinners what do you think? is there no &s;uch thing as wrath to come? is there no &s;uch place as Hell, where the damned &s;hall be eternally tormented? what black|mouth is there that dareth to &s;peak again&s;t this, which is &s;o clearly revealed in the Word of God? &s;urely none but &s;uch as are children of the Devil, the Father of lyes will impeach the Word of God with fal&s;ehood, and hereby make God a lyar, who hath foretold this &s;o plainly in the Scripture; only &s;uch as are loo&s;e in their lives, and deficient in their mo|rals, who&s;e intere&s;t they think it is to do it, will de|ny the puni&s;hment by eternal fire in Hell, that &s;o they might &s;in with the le&s;s check and control; but when they come to feell the heat of this fire, as of all
<PB N="25" REF="13"> others they are mo&s;t like to be ca&s;t into everla&s;ting burnings, then they will be of another mind. And if there be &s;uch dreadful wrath coming, &s;uch a hor|rible fire preparing in Hell, for all di&s;obedient per|&s;ons, for all impenitent per&s;ons, for all hypocrites and unbelievers, what do you do &s;inners? have ye not &s;inned, have ye not by your &s;ins de&s;erved? and are ye not by your &s;ins expo&s;ed unto the vengeance of eternal fire? is there any way for you to e&s;cape, but only by Je&s;us Chri&s;t the only Deliverer from wrath to come? and yet do you neglect him? do you refu&s;e and reject him? do you &s;hut the door of your hearts again&s;t him? What! do you mind only your bodies what ye &s;hall eat, what ye &s;hall drink, and wherewithall ye &s;hall be Clothed, and to provide for a &s;hort abode in this world, and in the mean time negect the Salvation of your Souls, and take no care to prevent your everla&s;ting puni&s;hment? Are you not guilty of a great affront and indignity a|gain&s;t God, when he hath made &s;uch provi&s;ion for your Salvation, as to &s;end his Son into the World for you, and to proffer his Son with deliverance to you? don't you &s;in again&s;t his chief command, which is to believe in and accept of this Son? don't you &s;in again&s;t the greate&s;t impre&s;&s;ion of his love unto man|kind? don't you &s;purn at his bowles, and in effect &s;ay, God might have kept his Son to him&s;elf, for any thing you care? are you not guilty of the greate&s;t ingratitude towards the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t? Never was there &s;uch a thing heard of, &s;ince the foundation of the world; never could &s;uch a thing have entred into your thoughts or de&s;ires, as the Lord Je&s;us hath freely, and of his own accord done for you; and it is a mo&s;t &s;tupendous thing, which me thinks
<PB N="26" REF="14"> &s;hould fill you with a&s;toni&s;hment and admiration, that the Lord of glory &s;hould take your fle&s;h, and make him&s;elf of no reputation, and humble him&s;elf unto death, even the cur&s;ed death of the Cro&s;s; and all that he might deliver you from the cur&s;e of the Law, the wrath to come, and the pains of Hell for ever; now when Chri&s;t by his death hath fully &s;a|tisfied God's ju&s;tice for your &s;ins, and purcha&s;ed eternal life for your &s;ouls, and out of wonderful kindne&s;s hath cau&s;ed the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel, and glad tidings of Salvation to be made known in this little nook of the Earth, and ca&s;t your lot in &s;uch a &s;pot of ground, as the like is not to be found again under the whole Cop of Heaven, for the pure and powerful Preaching of the Go&s;pel; I &s;ay, when Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath &s;ent his faithful Mini&s;ters unto you, (whom you may find and hear if you will look after them) with this Emba&s;&s;age, to tell you what Chri&s;t hath done for you, and to make tenders of him with all his benefits to you; when Chri&s;t by them lets you know how able and willing he is to Save you, and knocks at the door of your hearts for entertainment; that, though you are &s;uch helple&s;s and mi&s;erable Creatures without him, you &s;hould notwith&s;tanding all thus refu&s;e Chri&s;t or neglect him, that you &s;hould prefere &s;ome ba&s;e lu&s;ts before him, and to &s;erve the Devil, than to be &s;aved by Chri&s;t; hereby you ex|pre&s;s great contempt of Chri&s;t, and are guilty of hor|rid ingratitude; hereby you trample his Blood under your feet, and you do in effect &s;ay he might have &s;par'd his pains in coming down from Heaven, that he might have &s;tai'd untill he had been &s;ent for, that he might have carried his Go&s;pel to any other place, for any thing you value it or him; thus you deal
<PB N="27" REF="14"> with Chri&s;t, and thru&s;t him away from you, though he come upon the mo&s;t welcome errand, and ought to be received with all readine&s;s and thankfulne&s;s. And think &s;inners moreover how injurious you are here|by unto your &s;elves, what folly and madne&s;s you are guilty of; Do you know what you are? if you do, you know that without Chri&s;t you are cur&s;ed wretches, and children of wrath; behold a wonder in Chri&s;t, everla&s;ting burnings are become everla&s;ting mercies, and he that will come at the la&s;t day as a Judge in flaming fire, to take vengeance upon you, if you be found without an intere&s;t in him, doth now profer to be your Saviour and Advocat, to deliver you from wrath to come; and is it not depth of fol|ly and &s;otti&s;hne&s;s to &s;light and refu&s;e &s;uch a per|&s;on, and by refu&s;ing him, to plunge your &s;elves into unavoidable ruine and de&s;truction? when you may have Chri&s;t, and with him all things needful in this world, and that with greater &s;ecurity, than by all your inordinate de&s;ires and endeavours; and more|over &s;uch riches as do exceed all Earthly Trea&s;ures, and be&s;ides this a Crown of glory in the other world, and notwith&s;tanding this to neglect Chri&s;t, and chu&s;e rather the plea&s;ures of &s;in for a &s;ea&s;on, the gratifying of &s;ome ba&s;e lu&s;ts unto the everla&s;ting damnation of your Souls and Bodies in Hell, to re|fu&s;e with Chri&s;t everla&s;ting happine&s;s, and head-long to run your &s;elves into everla&s;ting burnings; if this be not folly and madne&s;s, I don't know what is. You can't contrive or con&s;ult greater mi&s;chief and injury to your &s;elves, for I am per&s;waded that &s;uch as go to Hell out of <HI>England,</HI> e&s;pecially out of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> where they have or might have &s;uch plentiful means of Grace, of all others will have the lowe&s;t
<PB N="28" REF="15"> and hotte&s;t place; O how will it &s;ting, and gnaw, and rack, and torture you for ever, to remember what &s;ea&s;ons and opportunities, what calls and invita|tions you have had; but by your right of getting an intere&s;t in the Lord Je&s;us, the Deliverer from wrath to come, you have brought ruine upon your &s;elves. Think Sinners, how unavoidable the wrath to come, is without an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, and think, O think, how intollerable this wrath will be when it is come, <HI>Who can dwell with devouring Fire?</HI> Think of the extremity of pain and angui&s;h, which is pre|pared for you; and think of the eternity of Hells torments, that when you have been there as many thou&s;and Millions of years, as there are Stars or Sands, your torment will be but beginning, and <HI>Ne|ver, Never, Never</HI> will it have any ending; me thinks this &s;hould certifie all Chri&s;tle&s;s &s;inners, who are already condemned to his place of torment, <HI>John</HI> 3. 8. <HI>He that believeth not is condemned already,</HI> and you know not how &s;oon execution may follow upon the Sentence, if you dye this night out of Chri&s;t, the wrath of God will &s;ei&s;e upon you immediately, and you will be mi&s;erable, inrecoverably, and to eter|nity.</P>
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<HEAD>&V;&s;e 4. For Comfort, and that of all tho&s;e who upon tryal find well-grounded evidence of their intere&s;t in this Je&s;us, the only Deliverer from wrath to come.</HEAD>
<P>You are the only per&s;ons in the world, who are in a &s;afe condition, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8. 33, 34. Who &s;hall lay thing unto your charge? If God do not charge you with guilt, who can charge you be&s;ides? through Chri&s;t God doth ju&s;tifie you, he pardoneth all your &s;ins as if they had never been, and accepteth of you as perfectly righteous, through the perfect righteou&s;|ne&s;s
<PB N="29" REF="15"> of Chri&s;t made yours by Faith. Who is it that &s;hall condemn you? the Law may condemn you, and Con&s;cience may condemn you, but &s;ince Chri&s;t died for you, and in his death was condemned and &s;uffered in your &s;tead, you are freed from the con|demnation of God, and the eternal damnation of Hell; and being out of all danger of future wrath, you may the better bear any evil of affliction, which in this world may be your portion; and you may comfortably wait for the coming of Chri&s;t from Heaven, whom God hath rai&s;ed from the dead; even this Je&s;us who hath delivered you from wrath to come, and who will bring for you, and give to you everla&s;ting glory and happine&s;s at the day of his &s;e|cond appearance.</P>
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<HEAD>&V;&s;e 5. For Exhortation.</HEAD>
<P>1. Of &s;uch as are without an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t the Deliverer from wrath to come; O be per&s;waded without any further delay, to flee from this wrath of God, which hath you in the pur&s;uit, and will over|take you ere long, and that by fleing unto, and get|ting an intere&s;t in this Je&s;us, who only can deliver you. O that I might be in&s;trumental to bring &s;ome of you unto a clo&s;ure with Je&s;us Chri&s;t! Sinners will you be per&s;waded at length to accept of Chri&s;t? you may have him, and you mu&s;t have him, otherwi&s;e you are cur&s;t, you are lo&s;t, and you cannot e&s;cape eternal death and wrath. If you would be delivered from wrath to come by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, take the&s;e few directions.</P>
<P>1. Labour for a thorow &s;en&s;e of your ab&s;olute need of Chri&s;t, and that not only by rea&s;on of your guilt of &s;in and danger of Hell, but al&s;o that there is no Salvation nor deliverance attainable by any other
<PB N="30" REF="16"> way but by Je&s;us Chri&s;t: Think not that your re|pentance and reformation, though this be nece&s;&s;ary and without which there can be no Salvation for you, yet that this can &s;ave you without Chri&s;t, if you &s;hould attain this, and re&s;t in this, you will as certainly go to Hell, as the mo&s;t wicked tran&s;gre&s;|&s;our; you cannot be &s;aved by any of your own righteou&s;ne&s;s, becau&s;e your righteou&s;ne&s;s is imperfect and therefore cannot &s;atisfie Gods Ju&s;tice for your &s;ins, and therefore cannot deliver you from wrath to come; &s;hould you weep for your &s;ins till your eyes were out, and &s;igh and grief for &s;in till your hearts did break, &s;hould your wear you knees to the bones with kneeling, and wear your Tongues to the roots with praying, and con&s;ume your fle&s;h to nothing with fa&s;ting, &s;hould you be as ju&s;t, and temperate, and charitable, and as &s;trictly Religious as any breathing; yea, as holy for the future as any Angel in Heaven, all this would not wipe away the guilt of your &s;in, nor deliver you out of the hands of Gods Ju|&s;tice, which mu&s;t be &s;atisfied; one &s;aith very well, if any would be &s;aved by their own righteou&s;ne&s;s, they mu&s;t fir&s;t go to Hell, and there continue in torments to eternity, and if that could be &s;uppo&s;ed, which cannot be &s;uppo&s;ed to be done, becau&s;e there is no ending of tho&s;e torments which are eternal, and therefore no po&s;&s;ibility of getting loo&s;e from them, yet &s;uppo&s;ing that any could do this, they mu&s;t come back and fulfil the Law in every tittle, both which being impo&s;&s;ible for you, who are guilty of &s;in, you have ab&s;olute need of Chri&s;t's perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s in order to your deliverance from wrath to come.</P>
<P>It is this which damneth and &s;inketh many thou|&s;ands in Hell, the looking and &s;eeking to be &s;aved
<PB N="31" REF="16"> by a rigteou&s;ne&s;s of their own; I know that mo&s;t are damn'd for their unrighteou&s;ne&s;s, and go to Hell in the broader way of gro&s;s impiety and wickedne&s;s; yet if that be the broader way and have it's ten thou|&s;ands, this is too broad and hath it's thou&s;ands, be|&s;ides the more &s;ober among&s;t the Heathens, who be|lived a future &s;tate of happine&s;s, and looked to ar|rive to it by the moral Righteou&s;ne&s;s; be&s;ides the Papi&s;ts, who a&s;&s;ert ju&s;tification by works, and that we are no otherwi&s;e ju&s;tified than as we are made in|ternally righteous, and this expre&s;&s;ing it &s;elf in acts of obedience; and be&s;ides Socinians and other Sects together with the Quakers, who plainly affirms that we mu&s;t be &s;aved by a righteou&s;ne&s;s within, which the Quakers call Chri&s;t within, (all which do funda|mentally erre in their judgements concerning the righteou&s;ne&s;s, which alone can &s;ave.) I &s;ay be&s;ides the&s;e, it is natural unto all to &s;eek Salvation this way; all are born under a Covenant of works, they are under the Law, and not under Grace, and when any think how they &s;hall be &s;aved, they pre&s;ently run to work, and &s;eek after a righteou&s;ne&s;s of their own, and to fulfil the Law them&s;elves, and hope if they repent and lead a new life, though they have &s;inned that God is merciful<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, and he will pardon and &s;ave them. It is an ordinary thing, even where the light of truth doth &s;hine mo&s;t clearly, and the Go&s;pel is Preached mo&s;t powerfully, when any are convinced of &s;in by the beams of this light, and awakened out of their &s;ecurity, by &s;ome powerful Sermon, di&s;cover|ing their danger of eternal ruine, as the ju&s;t de&s;ert of Sin, they will cry out with the Jaylor what &s;hall we do to be &s;aved? and however they be di|rected as he was to believe, yet the mo&s;t do re&s;t in
<PB N="32" REF="17"> doing and not believing; they fall pre&s;ently upon confe&s;&s;ion of &s;in and &s;orrowing for it, they fall upon reforming, they will not now be drunk or &s;wear, or commit Adultery, or break the Sabbath, or defraud in their dealings, now they begin to hear the Word, and Pray in their Families, and pray in their Clo&s;ets, and keep days of Fa&s;ting, and conforms unto all the External acts of Devotion; and if they can at|tain unto &s;ome kind of fla&s;hy affection, they think all is well; and if they find their hearts dull and cold and hard, they may al&s;o be troubled for it, not upon a right Go&s;pel account, but becau&s;e they feel they want &s;uch a righteou&s;ne&s;s to pre&s;ent God withall as they de&s;ire, or through &s;ome &s;ecret fear that their righteou&s;ne&s;s will not hold water; but all this while the&s;e per&s;ons &s;eek after &s;alvation through a &s;elf righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, and Chri&s;t is left out and his righteou&s;|ne&s;s, either unknown or utterly di&s;regarded and ne|glected by them; and thus many go to Hell in a way of duty, their duties are the occa&s;ion of their dam|nation, through their re&s;ting in them, and expecting Salvation by them; It may &s;eem &s;trange, that any &s;hould have hopes of Salvation by imperfect &s;ervings, but this I &s;uppo&s;e may come to pa&s;s, either becau&s;e they don't mind the imperfections of their &s;ervices, for want of under&s;tanding the Law in the Spirituali|ty of it, and examining them&s;elves by it, or through apprehen&s;ions that Gods mercy revealed in his Word will Pardon them, not con&s;idering that all his &s;pecial Mercy, in pardoning and &s;aving is through Chri&s;t; not con&s;idering that God is infinitely ju&s;t and righ|teous as well as merciful, and that there is no room for the exerci&s;e of Mercy towards Sinners, until Ju&s;tice be &s;atisfied; that Gods ju&s;tice requireth a
<PB N="33" REF="17"> perfect righteou&s;nes, otherwi&s;e there cannot be a per|fect ju&s;tification, that there mu&s;t be full &s;atisfaction to Gods ju&s;tice, for the breach of Gods Law, other|wi&s;e there can be no clear remi&s;&s;ion, and that there mu&s;t be perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s made out &s;ome way, otherwi&s;e we cannot be accepted by God as righte|ous. Since therefore this &s;atisfaction to Gods ju|&s;tice cannot be by our &s;elves, becau&s;e being finite, we cannot make an infinite compen&s;ation, which in|finite ju&s;tice doth require, and &s;ince perfect righte|ou&s;ne&s;s, which mu&s;t include both original and actual cannot be in us, who are guilty both of original and actual &s;in, and the lea&s;t &s;in rendering for ever a per&s;onal perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s impo&s;&s;ible, and the Law cur&s;eth every one that continueth not in all things, which are written in the Book of the Law to do them, and therefore as many as are of the Law, that &s;eeks ju&s;tification and Salvation by the way of works, or righteou&s;ne&s;s of the Law, are under the cur&s;e, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 10. It is clear that whoever do ex|pect to be &s;aved from wrath to come, it mu&s;t not be by their own righteou&s;ne&s;s, but by anothers righ|teou&s;ne&s;s, namely the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t; If you would attain an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, you mu&s;t be &s;en&s;ible of your need of him and his righteou&s;ne&s;s upon this account.</P>
<P>2. Labour for a thorow acquaintance with the nature, intendment, and efficacy of the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t; The Apo&s;tle &s;aith of the Jews, <HI>Rom. 10. 2, 3, 4. I bear them record, they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, for they being ignorant of God's righteou&s;ne&s;s, and going about to e&s;tabli&s;h their own righteou&s;ne&s;s, have not &s;ubmitted them&s;elves to the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God, for Chri&s;t is the end of the Law
<PB N="34" REF="18"> for righteoune&s;s unto every one that believeth.</HI> And as it was with the Jews of Old, &s;o it is with many no|minal Chri&s;tians now, who may be led only by a blind zeal, to work out their own Salvation in a way of doing, and it is through their ignorance of the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t, (called here the righteou&s;|ne&s;s of God either, becau&s;e it is the righteou&s;ne&s;s alone which God, will accept, or which God hath found out and provided for men, which &s;ence it mu&s;t have, <HI>Rom. 3. 21. 22. But now the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God without the Law is manife&s;t, even the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God, which is by Faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> &amp;c. That is the righteou&s;ne&s;s which God doth accept, and hath appointed for our ju&s;tification; or it is called the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God, becau&s;e it is the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t, who is God-man, no other righteou&s;ne&s;s than of &s;uch a per&s;on, being &s;ufficient for man in his fallen e&s;tate;) I &s;ay through the ignorance of this righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t, many Chri&s;tians &s;eeking af|ter a righteou&s;ne&s;s in order to their Salvation, they go about to e&s;tabli&s;h their own righteou&s;ne&s;s, that is a per&s;onal righteou&s;ne&s;s, and endeavour the gaining of Heaven in a way of doing, and &s;o do not &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the righteou&s;ne&s;s of God; It is through Pride (&s;o natural unto every one) that they are loth to be beholding wholly unto another, and therefore they would have &s;omething of their own to commend them unto God, and therefore they do not &s;ubmit unto the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t, which God hath provided for them.</P>
<P>Therefore you mu&s;t labour to be clear in your un|der&s;tanding, what this righreou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t is; there are two things requi&s;ite and ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;a|ry unto fallen man. The fir&s;t is &s;atisfaction unto
<PB N="35" REF="18"> Gods Ju&s;tice for his &s;ins, and without this there can be no e&s;cape of eternal death and mi&s;ery, becau&s;e guilt doth oblige unto puni&s;hment, and this cannot be removed until Gods Ju&s;tice be &s;atisfied; the o|ther is perfect actual obedience unto Gods Law, and without this there can be no attaining eternal Life and Glory: the fir&s;t Covenant of works, (&s;o Man in his fallen State) being &s;till in force, <HI>Do this and Live,</HI> and the Soul that &s;inneth &s;hall dye; now man being finite, cannot &s;atisfie Gods ju&s;tice for his &s;ins, and being a Sinner, cannot yield perfect actual obe|dience to Gods Law; but the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath done both for man.</P>
<P N="1">1. Chri&s;t by his &s;ufferings, and death upon the Cro&s;s did make &s;atisfaction unto Gods ju&s;tice, he being made a cur&s;e for us, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3. 13. And un|dergoing equivalent puni&s;hment, puni&s;hment unto the damned storment, and being God-man, though the humane nature only did &s;uffer, yet the Divine nature in the &s;ame per&s;on did put an infinite value upon the &s;ufferings of the humane, and &s;o became a &s;ufficient &s;atisfaction unto Gods infinite ju&s;tice, and hereby he hath purcha&s;ed remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins and deliverance from wrath to come.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t hath yeilded perefect actual obedience unto the Law, he hath fulfilled all righteou&s;ne&s;s, that not having a righteou&s;ne&s;s perfect of our own, his might he made ours, and we might attain life thereby; this pa&s;&s;ive and active obedience of Chri&s;t which you &s;hould labour to under&s;tand, and that Chri&s;t had not this righteou&s;ne&s;s for him&s;elf, he had no &s;in of his own to &s;uffer for, but it was in our &s;tead, and as our &s;urety, and this righteou&s;ne&s;s was intend|ed for us, and being the righteou&s;ne&s;s of &s;uch a per|&s;on
<PB N="36" REF="19"> is highly efficacious to attain, that for which it was de&s;igned, as will appear by the Covenant.</P>
<P N="3">3. Labour for a thorow under&s;tanding of the Co|venant, and that both the Covenant, which God made with Chri&s;t in the behalf of man, and the Cove|nant which God hath made with man through Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="1">1. Acquaint your &s;elves with the Covenant God made with Chri&s;t, in the behalf of man, whatever worth and value there was in the righteou&s;ne&s;s of Chri&s;t, yet God might have required a per&s;onal righteou&s;ne&s;s and &s;atisfaction, and Chri&s;t's righ|teou&s;ne&s;s might have &s;tood us in no &s;tead; but God did eternally Covenant and agree with Chri&s;t, that if he would take Humane nature and work out a righ|teou&s;ne&s;s for fallen man, it &s;hould be accepted, that if he would take to him the body, he &s;hould prepare for him, and make his Soul an Offering for &s;in, that is, &s;uffer what his ju&s;tice did require for the &s;ins of Man, that he &s;hould &s;ee his Seed, and ju&s;tifie many, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 53. 10, 11. It is through this Covenant with Chri&s;t that Chri&s;t righteou&s;ne&s;s is accepted in the behalf of Sinners, God having agreed before that, &s;o it &s;hould be.</P>
<P N="2">2. Acquaint your &s;elves with the Covenant God hath made with Man through Chri&s;t, wherein upon the account of Chri&s;t God hath promi&s;ed remi&s;&s;ion of &s;ins, and eternal life, <HI>Heb. 10. 16, 17. This is my Covenant that I will make with them &s;aith the Lord; I will put my Laws into their hearts, and their &s;ins and iniquities I will remember no more. 1 John 2. 25. This is the promi&s;e which he hath promi&s;ed, even eternal life.</HI> If ever you be &s;aved from eternal wrath, and attain eternal life, it mu&s;t be by vertue of this New Cove|nant
<PB N="37" REF="19"> of Grace, wherein God doth engage him&s;elf to give what his Son hath purcha&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">3. Labour to be acquainted with the nature and u&s;e of faith, which is the Tenour of the Covenant of Grace; the Tenour of the Covenant of work was <HI>Do and Live,</HI> the Tenour, or that required to give an intere&s;t in the Covenant of grace is <HI>Believe and Life;</HI> Faith joyns the Soul unto Chri&s;t, the Mediatour of this Covenant; and giveth an actual intere&s;t in him and his purcha&s;e, and whatever is promi&s;ed through him in the Covenant; Faith is a re&s;ting of the Soul alone upon Chri&s;t, and an application of the pro|mi&s;es of Pardon and life unto the Soul; Faith is not only a di&s;cerning, but applying or laying hold on Chri&s;t's righteou&s;ne&s;s without us, whereby it is im|puted to us, or accounted once by God, as if it had been our own per&s;onal righteou&s;ne&s;s; If ever you would be ju&s;tified, that is, have your &s;ins pardoned, and your per&s;ons accepted as perfectly righteous in the &s;ight of God, it mu&s;t be by Faith, renouncing your own righteou&s;ne&s;s as imperfect and in&s;ufficient, apprehending and applying, re&s;ting and tru&s;ting in Chri&s;t's perfect righteou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P N="4">4. Apply your &s;elves unto God in Prayer, that he having given his Son for you, would al&s;o him give to you, and that he would give you Faith to receive him, and apply him; beg this again and again, with confe&s;&s;ion of your &s;ins and &s;en&s;e of your want of Chri&s;t, and never leave asking until you obtain; at|tend al&s;o upon the Word where it is Preached mo&s;t purely and powerfully for the working of Faith, which cometh by hearing, <HI>Rom.</HI> 10. 17. And then in the &s;trength of the Lord put forth the hand to lay hold on Chri&s;t, and labour to ca&s;t your &s;elves upon
<PB N="38" REF="20"> him, re&s;igning withall, your &s;elves up unto him, not only to be &s;aved, but al&s;o taught and ruled by him.</P>
<P><HI>Obj.</HI> I know it will be objected, that if we &s;eek thus to be delivered from wrath to come by Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and Faith in his righteou&s;ne&s;s without us, and not by internal righteou&s;ne&s;s, and that of works, that this will open a door to Licentiou&s;ne&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> I An&s;wer, That this is an old Objection a|gain&s;t the Doctrine of ju&s;tification by Faith, even in the days of the <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> when the Doctrine was fir&s;t Preached. But as then, &s;o al&s;o now this Doctrine doth not give any liberty to &s;in, for however we cannot be &s;aved by inherent righteou&s;ne&s;s, and any of our good works, yet we cannot be &s;aved without them; none a&s;&s;ert more highly that there mu&s;t be Regeneration and Sanctification, a new heart and new life, otherwi&s;e there can be no admi&s;&s;ion into Heaven, no e&s;caping of the damnation of Hell; Yea, further we &s;ay that the &s;ame Faith which is an in&s;tru|ment of ju&s;tification, is al&s;o a part of Sanctification, being a heart purifying grace, <HI>Act,</HI> 15. 9. That as Faith is a hand to lay hold on Chri&s;t's righteou&s;ne&s;s without us; &s;o it is a hand to receive &s;upplyes of grace and &s;pirit from Chri&s;t for the quickning of us unto newne&s;s of Life; yea, I may &s;ay there can be no real inherent righteou&s;ne&s;s, withou an intere&s;t by Faith in Chri&s;t's imputed righteou&s;ne&s;s, there may be &s;ome thing like it, a righteou&s;ne&s;s of &s;ome kind there may be, but not of the right kind, not a righteou&s;ne&s;s which &s;prings from the true principle, which is &s;aith, and therefore not a righteou&s;ne&s;s that is plea&s;ing unto God, for without Faith it is impo&s;|&s;ible to plea&s;e God, <HI>Heb.</HI> 11. 6. So that if you would have inherent righteou&s;ne&s;s, and walk &s;o as to plea&s;e
<PB N="39" REF="20"> God, you mu&s;t belive in the Lord Je&s;us, and fetch grace from him, in whom all fulne&s;s doth dwell, <HI>Col.</HI> 1. 19. If you would have lu&s;t mortified, the world crucified, and overcome the Devil, who endeavour|eth by his temptations to draw you unto &s;in, you mu&s;t by Faith draw vertue and &s;trength to do it. In a word, if you would deny Ungodline&s;s and World|ly lu&s;ts, and live &s;oberly, righteou&s;ly, and Godly in this pre&s;ent evil world, you mu&s;t do it by Faith. But how to attain the principle and practice of Godli|ne&s;s, I may el&s;e where give direction.</P>
<P>Had I room I might &s;peak much by way of exhor|tation, to &s;uch as have attained an intere&s;t in Chri&s;t, and the deliverance purcha&s;ed by him; in a word, learn to admire free grace, to be very thankful and watchful, to endeavour the bringing others to Chri&s;t, to adorn your profe&s;&s;ion, to be blamele&s;s and harmle&s;s the Di&s;ciples of Chri&s;t, without rebuke in the mid&s;t of a crooked and perver&s;e Generation, among whom you &s;hould &s;hine as Lights in the World here, that &s;o you may &s;hine like Stars, yea, like Suns in the Kingdom of your Father for ever.</P>
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<HEAD>Books of this Author Printed.</HEAD>
<P>God's Terrible Voice in the City; <HI>being a Re-Plague and Fire in</HI> London.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t's certain and &s;udden appearance to Judge|ment.</P>
<P>Fire and Brim&s;tone from Heaven, <HI>in the Burning of</HI> Sodom <HI>formerly.</HI> From Earth, <HI>in the Burning of</HI> Aetna <HI>lately.</HI> In Hell, <HI>to Burn the wicked eternally. The&s;e Printed for</HI> George Calvert, <HI>and to be Sold at his Shop at the Golden</HI> Ball <HI>in</HI> Duck-lane.</P>
<P>Words <HI>whereby we may be</HI> Saved, <HI>and</HI> Words of ad|vice to young Men. <HI>Printed for</HI> T. Parkhur&s;t, <HI>and to be Sold at his Shop, at the Golden</HI> Bible <HI>on</HI> Lon|den-Bridge.</P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Foundation of God Standeth Sure, <HI>or an An&s;wer to</HI> W. Pens Sandy Foundation Shaken.</P>
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