I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Object. But this is not my case; For, I do not only want Assurance of Gods Love, and have no particular Promise; but instead of the Promise, I have a Threatening set upon my soul: O! the bitter words of the Threatening, have soaked into my heart. Time was heretofore ind•ed, that I had a Promise, I could say, I had a Promise, and I rejoiced in it; but now, I have lost my Promise, and instead of the Promise, a Threatening is come: O! I see! the smart, and the anger of the Threatening; and have I not just cause and reason to be discouraged now?

Object. But this is not my case; For, I do not only want Assurance of Gods Love, and have no particular Promise; but instead of the Promise, I have a Threatening set upon my soul: O! the bitter words of the Threatening, have soaked into my heart. Time was heretofore ind•ed, that I had a Promise, I could say, I had a Promise, and I rejoyced in it; but now, I have lost my Promise, and instead of the Promise, a Threatening is come: O! I see! the smart, and the anger of the Threatening; and have I not just cause and reason to be discouraged now?

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Answ. 1 First: If you be drawn to Christ, is it material, whether it be done with a Cord of Flax, or with a Cord of Silk? God hath two Arms, whereby he draws us unto himself; The Arm of his Love, and the Arm of his Anger, and Justice: The Arm of his Love, is put forth in the Promise; the Arm of his Anger and Justice, is put forth in his Threatening: And with both these, he doth lift up the fallen sinner. What if God lift you up with his left Arm, so you be lifted up? Sometimes he lifts up with the Arm of his Threatening, that he may carry us in the Arm of his Promise; for as the Law was a School-Master to bring to Christ, so the Threatening, is a School-Master to bring us unto the Promise: