4. Lastly, let the Dreadfulness of God, prevail with every believing soul, to pity the ungodly that pity not themselves. O pray for them, O warn them, exhort them, entreat them, as men that know the Terrors of the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 11. If they knew as well as you do what sin is, and what it is to be children of wrath, and what it is to be unpardoned, unjustified and unsanctified, they would pity themselves, and cry for mercy, mercy, mercy, from day to day, till they were recovered into a state of life, and turned from the power of Satan unto God. Alas, they know not what it is to die, and to see the world to come, and to appear before a dreadful God: They know not what it is to be in Hell fire; nor what it is to be glorified in Heaven: They never saw or tried these things, and they want the Faith by which they must be foreseen by those that are yet short of nearer knowledge: you therefore that have Faith to foreknow these things, and are enlightened by the Spirit of God, O pity and warn and help the miserable! Tell them how much easier it is to escape Hell, than to endure it: and how much easier a Holy life on earth is, than the endless wrath of the most Dreadful God. Tell them that unbelief, presumption and security, are the certain means to bring their misery, but will do nothing to keep it off; though they may keep off the present knowledge and sense of it, which would have droven them to seek a cure. Tell them that death and judgement are at hand, and that when they laugh, or sport, or scorn, and jest at the Displeasure of the Dreadful God, it is posting toward them, and will be upon them before they are aware; and when they slumber, their damnation slumbereth not: but while unbelieving sinners say, Peace, Peace, sudden destruction will come upon them, as unexpected travail on a woman with child, and they shall not escape. O tell them how dreadful a thing it is, for a soul that is unregenerate and unsanctified, to go from that body which it pampered and sold its salvation to pleasure, and to appear at the tribunal of God; and how dreadful it is for such a soul, ⟨p. 151⟩to fall into the hands of the living God. At least save your own souls, by the faithful discharge of so great a duty;
4. Lastly, let the Dreadfulness of God, prevail with every believing soul, to pitty the ungodly that pitty not themselves. O pray for them, O warn them, exhort them, intreat them, as men that know the Terrours of the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 11. If they knew as well as you do what sin is, and what it is to be children of wrath, and what it is to be unpardoned, unjustified and unsanctified, they would pitty themselves, and cry for mercy, mercy, mercy, from day to day, till they were recovered into a state of life, and turned from the power of Satan unto God. Alas, they know not what it is to die, and to see the world to come, and to appear before a dreadful God: They know not what it is to be in Hell fire; nor what it is to be glorified in Heaven: They never saw or tryed these things, and they want the Faith by which they must be foreseen by those that are yet short of nearer knowledge: you therefore that have Faith to foreknow these things, and are enlightned by the Spirit of God, O pitty and warn and help the miserable! Tell them how much easier it is to escape Hell, than to endure it: and how much easier a Holy life on earth is, than the endless wrath of the most Dreadful God. Tell them that unbelief, presumption and security, are the certain means to bring their misery, but will do nothing to keep it off; though they may keep off the present knowledge and sense of it, which would have droven them to seek a cure. Tell them that death and judgement are at hand, and that when they laugh, or sport, or scorn, and jeast at the Displeasure of the Dreadful God, it is posting toward them, and will be upon them before they are aware; and when they slumber, their damnation slumbereth not: but while unbelieving sinners say, Peace, Peace, sudden destruction will come upon them, as unexpected travail on a woman with child, and they shall not escape. O tell them how dreadful a thing it is, for a soul that is unregenerate and unsanctified, to go from that body which it pampered and sold its salvation to pleasure, and to appear at the tribunal of God; and how dreadful it is for such a soul, ⟨p. 151⟩to fall into the hands of the living God. At least save your own souls, by the faithful discharge of so great a duty;
