The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

so all the creatures cannot succour you. If all the creatures in heaven and earth should conspire together to save you from the burden of any one sin, they could not do it: nay, the creatures become your accusers; the bed whereupon thou hast committed so many abominations, and the alehouse where thou hast been drunk, and hast blasphemed, and the habitation where thou dwellest, and all the creatures groan against thee, under the burden of thy abominations: as Rom. 8.22. Therefore they will take no more guilt upon them, than what they have already, they are too weary of the weight of what they feel already; but though the saints dare not, and the creatures cannot save you, yet there is hope in heaven, & there is help to be had in Christ; well were it with thee, if thou hadst any share in that Christ; but this is that which will sink thy heart, that there is no hope for thee there: ⟨p. 199⟩what dost thou talk of grace and of mercy, when thou hast opposed the Gospel of grace, and of mercy, and thou continuest in unbelief? this is the height and depth of the misery of all unbelievers, that there is no hope for them in heaven: This was that which the wicked said, when they insulted against David in Psalm •.2. There is no help for him in his God: what they said of David falsely, God saith it truly of thee, there is no help for thee in God; there is mercy in Christ, but that's thy misery, for there is none for thee, being an unbeliever: Psalm 18.41. David there expresseth the misery of the wicked, Because the Lord leaves them in their troubles, they cried, but there was none to save them; yea, even unto the Lord, but he answered them not: That's thy estate right, though thou callest to heaven, and to Christ, and to the God of mercy, and to the merits of Christ, yet they will not help thee: thou hast many sins, and thou shalt bear them every one: Now think what your sins have deserved, and how you will be able to bear them, when all flesh shall appear before God: then the Lord will charge all thy sins upon thy soul, and thou must bear; and if every sin deserves condemnation, then how wilt thou be able to bear all those condemnations that are due to all thy sins which thou canst not number, even the dregs of vengeance, and the bottom of the cup of the Lords indignation. Christ in