The Soul's Preparation for Christ

And as you resist the Lord, so you do also pass the sentence of condemnation upon your selves, and seal up that doom which one day shall be executed upon the wicked in hell at that great day of account; that look what God shall do them, the same thou dost now by sinning; this is the doom, or (as I may say) the neck verse of the wicked and the last blow; as now thou doest depart from God by sinning, so then thou shalt depart from God for ever. A wicked man forsakes God, and plucks his heart from under the wisdom of God that should inform him in the way of life; and the soul saith, God shall not bless me, God shall not be God unto me; but I will live as I list, and I will run down post hast to hell, and when our hearts begin to rise against God and his ordinances, and your souls begin to go against the Lord, I tell you what I would think with my self; suppose I heard the voice of the Archangel crying; Arise ye dead and come to Judgement; and the last trumpet sounding, and the Lord Jesus coming in the heavens with his glorious Angels and did see the Goats standing •• the left hand, and the Saints on the right hand, and with that I did hear the terrible sound, Depart ye cursed: would you be content to hear that sentence pass against your souls? Oh what ⟨p. 20⟩lamentation and woe your poor souls would make in those days, and therefore consider it well, and say that I do that in sinning which the Lord will do in the day of Judgement; shall I depart from the Lord and withdraw my self from mercy, and say Christ shall not rule over me and save me? shall I do that against my self which the Lord shall do in that day? God forbid. There are two things hardly known; what God is, and what our sins are, or else we hardly apply the knowledge of them to our selves?

And as you resist the Lord, so you doe also passe the sentence of condemnation upon your selves, and seale up that doome which one day shall be executed upon the wicked in hell at that great day of accompt; that looke what God shall do thē, the same thou dost now by sinning; this is the doome, or (as I may say) the necke verse of the wicked and the last blow; as now thou doest depart from God by sinning, so then thou shalt depart frō God for ever. A wicked man forsakes God, and pluckes his heart from under the wisdom of God that should inform him in the way of life; and the soule saith, God shall not blesse me, God shall not be God unto me; but I will live as I list, and I will run down post hast to hell, and when our hearts beginne to rise against God and his ordinances, and your soules beginne to goe against the Lord, I tell you what I would thinke with my selfe; suppose I heard the voice of the Archangell crying; Arise yee dead and come to Iudgement; and the last trumpet sounding, and the Lord Jesus comming in the heavens with his glorious Angells and did see the Goats standing the left hand, and the Saints on the right hand, and with that I did heare the terrible sound, Depart ye cursed: would you be content to heare that sentence passe against your soules? Oh what