Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Men, Brethren, and Fathers, hear our Apology: If we be taxed, because we maintain free Grace, and Free Justification, that we make a way for free sinning, and free living, and doing what we please, and yet getting thus into Heaven at last, and that we may be assured of it in the mean while; we justly abominate such Inferences, and think they can least of all be inferred from such premises. May we all agree to stand up for God, and to oppose sin to our outmost, which is the last, and only Use that remains, and the best, and suitablest to the Text that can be made.

Men, Brethren, and Fathers, hear our Apology: If we be taxed, because we maintain free Grace, and Free Justification, that we make a way for free sinning, and free living, and doing what we please, and yet geting thus into Heaven at last, and that we may be assured of it in the mean while; we justly abomnate such Inferences, and think they can least of all be inferr'd from such premises. May we all agree to stand up for God, and to oppose sin to our outmost, which is the last, and only Use that remains, and the best, and suitablest to the Text that can be made.

It is foretold concerning the times of the Gospel,¹ That in the latter days they should fear the Lord and his goodness: Oh that these words might be now fulfilled! That men would fear to abuse the Goodness of God, which is designed to lead them to Repentance. ²The richest and sweetest Wines (they say) make the sharpest Vinegar: I am sure sweetest Promises, when neglected or abused, issue in the severest Torments; Woe to thee Chorazin, woe to thee Bethsaida; why is so sad a woe denounced, (beyond that on Ty•e and Sidon)?³ And Capernaum too is threatened with a more terrible destruction than that of Sodom and Gomorrah, because those miserable ones perished without having had the Means of Salvation declared in the Gospel amongst them; these refused to come to be saved, though invited by Christ himself. The hotter the Sun-beams are, the more they harden the Clay that will not be softened by it.