Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners

2. I must be as brief in opening the second thing, viz. What wrath is it that will thus ⟨p. 85⟩kindle and consume them? What wrath is in God, we need not here trouble our selves to enquire; But only what is intimated in the threats or curses of the Covenants. As there are two Covenants, so each hath his proper penalty for its violation.

1. Then till men do come in and submit to Christ, they lie under the wrath of God for all their sins as they are against the Covenant of Works; or they are liable to the curse of that Covenant: Christs death hath taken away the curse of the Covenant, not absolutely from any man, but conditionally, which becomes absolute when the condition is performed. The Elect themselves are not by nature under the Covenant of Grace, but remain under the curse of the first Covenant, till they come in to Christ.

1. Then ti•l men do come in and submit to Christ, they lie under the wrath of God for all their sins as they are against the Covenant of Works; or they are lyable to the curse of that Covenant: Christs death hath taken away the curse of the Covenaut, not absolutely from any man, but conditionally, which becomes absolute when the condition is performed. The Elect themselves are not by nature under the Covenant of Grace, but remain under the curse of the first Covenant, till they come in to Christ.

2. Whosoever rejecteth or neglecteth this Grace, and so finally breaketh the New Covenant, must also bear the curse or penalty thereof, besides all the former, which will be a far greater curse, even as the blessings of this Covenant are far greater then those of the first. It was a heavy punishment to be cast out of Paradise, and from the presence and favour of God, and to be cursed by him, and subjected to eternal death, and all Creatures below cursed for our sakes, to bear all those curses and