An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners

First, His justice is like a flaming sword unsheathed against thee. If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment, I will render vengeance is mine adversaries, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, &c. Deut. 32. 40, 41. So exact is Justice, that 'twill by no means clear the guilty. Exod. 34. 7. God will not discharge thee he will not hold thee guiltless, Exod. 20. 7. but will require the whole debt in person of thee• unless thou canst make a scripture claim to Christ and his satisfaction. When the enlightened sinner looks on justice, and sees the balance in which he must be weighed, and the sword by which he must be executed, he feels an earth-quake in his breast. But Satan keeps this out of sight, and persuades the soul while he can; that the Lord is all made up of mercy, and so lulls it asleep in sin. Divine Justice is very strict; it must have satisfaction to the utmost farthing, it denounceth indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, to every soul that d•th evil. Rom. 2. 8, 9. It curseth every one that continueth not in every thing, that is written in the Law to do it. Gal. 3. 10. The ⟨p. 114⟩justice of God to the unpardoned sinner, that hath a sense of his misery, is more terrible, than the sight of the bailiff or creditor to the bankrupt debtor, or than the sight of the Judge and bench to the robber, or of the irons and gibbet to the guilty murderer. When justice sits upon life and death, oh what dreadful work doth it make with the wretched sinner? Bind him hand and foot, cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matt. 22. 13. Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Mat. 25. 41