Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

4. Of those many thousands that did see him and his Works, and hear him preach when he was upon Earth, not one of an hundred were brought to repentance thereby, vid. John 12.37. And are any sure in these days, had they then lived, they should not have been of that number? Considering that men have now the same blindness and hardness upon their minds and hearts which they had then; and the same love to their sins, and prejudices against Holiness as was then. And therefore Impenitency now will expose a man to as severe punishment, and present him as guilty before God at the day of Judgment as it will Capernaum. And doth not our Saviour denounce the same severities against them that received not his Disciples preaching, as his own. Matth. 10.14, 15. Whosoever shall not receive you, (having offered peace to them;) depart, and shake off the dust of your feet against them. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah than that City. And this holds true in every Age, and in the present Age; in every City, and in this City; in every Nation, and in our own Nation.

4. Of those many thousands that did see him and his Works, and hear him preach when he was upon Earth, not one of an hundred were brought to repentance thereby, vid. John 12.37. And are any sure in these days, had they then lived, they should not have been of that number? Considering that men have now the same blindness and hardness upon their minds and hearts which they had then; and the same love to their sins, and prejudices against Holiness as was then. And therefore Impenitency now will expose a man to as severe punishment, and present him as guilty before God at the day of Judgment as it will Capernaum. And doth not our Saviour denounce the same severities against them that received not his Disciples preaching, as his own. Matth. 10.14, 15. Whosoever shall not receive you, (having offer'd peace to them;) depart, and shake off the dust of your feet against them. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah than that City. And this holds true in every Age, and in the present Age; in every City, and in this City; in every Nation, and in our own Nation.