Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Secondly, The more God doth manifest this his grace, the more desperately wicked is the heart of man to stand out against God. Oh! wretched, cursed heart that can stand out against God; that can stand out against the the offer of grace in the Gospel; I say, this is a cursed heart to stand out against the offer of grace though it were no more. If this should be but declared; that Christ is come into the world to save sinners: God expects, that all those to whom Christ is so revealed, that they should come flocking unto him, and cry mightily unto God for mercy in Christ: but when God doth not only offer his son; but comes by the Ministry of his word, and by the work of his spirit to draw your hearts unto him, and ye thou dost stand out against God; against all these gracious beginnings, drawings, and melting expressions of God; thou dost stand out; Oh! Cursed stubborn hard heart, that should stand out against all these. Thou canst not now plead; Oh! tentation was strong to draw my heart from God to such and such sinful ways. Was tentation strong? Why did ever tentation draw more alluringly than God hath drawn alluringly by his gospel? It is impossible that the Devil, and all the world should draw more alluringly to ⟨p. 367⟩any sin, than God doth draw unto him. Oh! these entreatings of God, this gracious way toward sinners, is that that will be the greatest aggravation of the sins of men that ever was or can be imagined. Only (for the present) know thus much; that the mercies of God, that shall be the subject of the Saints rejoicing, and blessing of his name to all eternity; that mercy will be thy greatest misery, and that is a sad thing for any sinner to think on, that that mercy that the Saints shall be eternally admiring, and blessing God for, that that should be my misery, and secret wound, and my greatest terror, and that is the second thing.