The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

Now how is it possible that Rational Agents should freely, in the open light, for perishing vanities dare to commit sin? Can they avoid or endure the Wrath of an Incensed God? If God spared not his Son when he came in the similitude of sinful flesh, how shall Sinners who are deeply and universally defiled escape? Can they ⟨p. 294⟩fortify themselves against the Supreme Judge? Can they encounter with the fury of the Almighty, the apprehensions of which made the Soul of Christ heavy unto Death? Have they patience to bear that for ever, which was to Christ, who had the strength of the Deity to support him, intolerable for a few hours? If it were so with the green Tree, what will become of the dry, when exposed to the fiery Trial? If he that was Holy and Innocent suffered so dreadfully, what must they expect, who add impenitency to their guilt, and live in the bold commission of Sin, without reflection and remorse? What prodigious Madness is it to drink iniquity like water, as a harmless thing, when 'tis a poison so deadly, that the least drop of it brings certain ruin? What desperate Folly, to have slight apprehensions of that, which is attended with the first and second Death? Nothing but unreasonable Infidelity and Inconsideration can make men venturous to provoke the living God, who is infinitely sensible of their Sins, and who both can and will punish them by Torments extreme and eternal.

Now how is it possible that Rational Agents should freely, in the open light, for perishing vanities dare to commit sin? Can they avoid or endure the Wrath of an Incensed God? If God spared not his Son when he came in the similitude of sinful flesh, how shall Sinners who are deeply and universally defiled escape? Can they ⟨p. 294⟩fortifie themselves against the Supreme Judge? Can they encounter with the fury of the Almighty, the apprehensions of which made the Soul of Christ heavy unto Death? Have they patience to bear that for ever, which was to Christ, who had the strength of the Deity to support him, intolerable for a few hours? If it were so with the green Tree, what will become of the dry, when exposed to the fiery Tryal? If he that was Holy and Innocent suffered so dreadfully, what must they expect, who add impenitency to their guilt, and live in the bold commission of Sin, without reflection and remorse? What prodigious Madness is it to drink iniquity like water, as a harmless thing, when 'tis a poison so deadly, that the least drop of it brings certain ruine? What desperate Folly, to have slight apprehensions of that, which is attended with the first and second Death? Nothing but unreasonable Infidelity and Inconsideration can make men venturous to provoke the living God, who is infinitely sensible of their Sins, and who both can and will punish them by Torments extreme and eternal.