The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H

Use 2 The next use is a word of terror, it discovers the fearful estate and woeful condition that those men are in, which purpose to set themselves against that work of preparation, which God meaneth for to work upon the souls of men. Is this the work of the Lord that he doth by an holy kind of violence ⟨p. 75⟩draw a sinner from corruption to himself, out of the bowels of his compassion? what then shall we think and judge of those men, that use all means, and all slights; that employ their wits to draw sinners from God, to sin? is it Gods great work, his Master-piece; the greatest good that he intends for his people, to pluck them from their corruptions, and draw them to himself? what then will become of those men that go professedly against God, and oppose the work of God in this kind: if there be any such persons here, as I doubt there are many such in the congregation; I tell you, if God be an holy God, then thou art an unholy man; if God be merciful to poor sinners to save them, then thou art cruel to damn them; if God be a gracious God, and would draw poor sinners from sin unto himself, then thou art a graceless man, and in a miserable condition, that wouldst draw poor souls from God to hell; and yet do no our towns swarm with such wretches? and are not our villages pestered with such ungracious miscreants? such as the wise man in the Proverbs speaketh of, that eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the blood of violence, and they cannot sleep unless they cause some to fall; the God of heaven open these mens eyes, and awaken their consciences that they may see their wretched estate; such as eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence, unless they can get such a man to be drunk with them, and such a woman to play the whore with them, and such a fellow to cozen and cheat, their ⟨p. 76⟩hearts cannot be at quiet, they are not at rest, in this case their sleep departeth from their eyes, unless they cause some to fall; if the Lord let in a light into the soul of a sinner, and discover unto him that he is in a wrong way, and that he must take up a better course; if the Lord by the cords of mercy seek to prevail with a sinner;

Vse 2 The next use is a word of terrour, it discovers the fearefull estate and wofull condition that those men are in, which purpose to set themselves against that work of preparation, which God meaneth for to work upon the soules of men. Is this the work of the Lord that hee doth by an holy kind of violence