The divine life in three treatises

2. But above all, what cause have the Ungodly to tremble at the Dreadfulness of that God, who is engaged in Justice, (except they be converted) to use them everlastingly as his unpardoned enemies. As there is no felicity like the favour of God; and no joy comparable to his children's joys; so is there no misery like the sense of his Displeasure, nor any terrors to be compared to those, which his wrath inflicteth everlastingly on the ungodly. O wretched sinner! what hast thou done to make God thine enemy? what could hire thee to offend him by thy wilful sin? and to do that which thou knewest he forbade and condemned in his Word? What madness caused thee to make a mock at sin and hell, and to play with the vengeance of the Almighty? what gain did hire thee to cast thy soul into the danger of damnation? canst thou save by the match, if thou win the world and lose thy soul? Didst thou not know who it was thou hadst to do with? It had been better for thee that all the world had been offended with thee, even men and Angels, great and small, than the most Dreadful God? Didst thou not believe him when he told thee how he was resolved to judge and punish the ungodly! Read it 2 Thes. 2. 7, 8, 9, 10. and 2. 10, 11. Matth. 25. Jud. 15. Psal. 1. &c. what caused thee to venture upon the consuming fire? Didst thou not know that as he is Merciful, so he is Jealous, Holy, Just and Terrible? In the Name of God, I require and entreat thee, fly to his Mercy in Jesus Christ; and hearken speedily to his Grace, and turn at his reproof and warning; To day while it is called to day, harden not thy heart, but hear his voice, lest he resolve in his wrath, that thou shalt never enter into his rest; There is no enduring, there is no overcoming, there is no contending with an angry, dreadful, holy God: Repent therefore and turn to him, and obey the voice of Mercy that thy soul may live.

2. But above all, what cause have the Ungodly to tremble at the Dreadfulness of that God, who is engaged in Justice, (except they be converted) to use them everlastingly as his unpardoned enemies. As there is no felicity like the favour of God; and no joy comparable to his childrens joyes; so is there no misery like the sense of his Displeasure, nor any terrours to be compared to those, which his wrath inflicteth everlastingly on the ungodly. O wretched sinner! what hast thou done to make God thine enemy? what could hire thee to offend him by thy willful sin? and to do that which thou knewest he forbad and condemned in his Word? What madness caused thee to make a mock at sin and hell, and to play with the vengeance of the Almighty? what gain did hire thee to cast thy soul into the danger of damnation? canst thou save by the match, if thou win the world and lose thy soul? Didst thou not know who it was thou hadst to do with? It had been better for thee that all the world had been offended with thee, even men and Angels, great and small, than the most Dreadful God? Didst thou not believe him when he told thee how he was resolved to judge and punish the ungodly! Read it