Dare you venture your souls and eternal estates upon this Faith? Certainly, it were exceeding boldness and desperateness so to do. What if ⟨p. 193⟩God should set all thy sins in order before thee, in the most hideous and fearful nature of them, in the true deformity and vileness of them? What if thou shouldst see God in his infinite Glory, Majesty, Holiness, and Justice? If he should show thee how thou hast wronged all his Attributes, how thou hast struck at his very Being, how thou hast been an enemy to him all thy life, resisting and opposing of him in all thy ways, darkened his Glory, contemned, slighted him, and set up the creature, yea, thy lust before him; this I dare charge every Soul as guilty of, in some degree or other. Suppose thou sawest all the creatures abused by thee, pleading against thee, and all Gods Ordinances profaned, and all thy time mis-spent, and the blood of Christ crying out against thee. Suppose thou sawest the Law, full of the brightness, of the holiness, and justice of God, which thou hast broken. Suppose thou sawest the rigour, strictness, and severity of it, binding thee over to eternal death for ⟨p. 194⟩every breach, and putting thee under an eternal Curse for every offence. Suppose Conscience were let out upon thee, and had commission to accuse thee to the full, to fly in thy face for all thy abuses of it. Suppose Satan were let out, to plead against thee, inject dismal hideous terrors into thy spirit. Suppose now all creatures were ready to leave thee, to take their everlasting farewell of thee; and now the infinite Ocean of Eternity were before thee, and thou wert to enter in upon it, either for thy eternal happiness or eternal misery. Suppose now thou stoodst before the great God, to receive the Sentence of thy eternal Doom, to have the great question of thy everlasting estate to be absolutely and unalterably determined of. Now, would such a Faith, as thou hast, carry through these things? Would it uphold thee from sinking into the bottomless Gulf of Despair? This may be thy condition, thou knowest not how soon; and that Faith that thou hast, of what use would ⟨p. 195⟩it be to thee, in such a condition as this?
Dare you venture your soules and eternall estates upon this Faith? Certainely, it were exceeding boldnesse and desperatenesse so to doe. What if ⟨p. 193⟩God should set all thy sinnes in order before thee, in the most hideous and fearefull nature of them, in the true deformitie and vilenesse of them? What if thou shouldst see God in his infinite Glorie, Majestie, Holinesse, and Iustice? If he should shew thee how thou hast wronged all his Attributes, how thou hast struck at his very Being, how thou hast beene an enemie to him all thy life, resisting and opposing of him in all thy wayes, darkened his Glorie, contemned, slighted him, and set up the creature, yea, thy lust before him; this I dare charge every Soule as guiltie of, in some degree or other. Suppose thou sawest all the creatures abused by thee, pleading against thee, and all Gods Ordinances prophaned, and all thy time mis-spent, and the bloud of Christ crying out against thee. Suppose thou sawest the Law, full of the brightnesse, of the holinesse, and justice of God, which thou hast broken. Suppose thou sawest the rigour, strictnesse, and severitie of it, binding thee over to eternall death for ⟨p. 194⟩every breach, and putting thee under an eternall Curse for every offence. Suppose Conscience were let out upon thee, and had commission to accuse thee to the full, to flye in thy face for all thy abuses of it. Suppose Satan were let out, to plead against thee, inject dismall hideous terrors into thy spirit. Suppose now all creatures were readie to leave thee, to take their everlasting farewell of thee; and now the infinite Ocean of Eternitie were before thee, and thou wert to enter in upon it, either for thy eternall happinesse or eternall miserie. Suppose now thou stoodst before the great God, to receive the Sentence of thy eternall Doome, to have the great question of thy everlasting estate to be absolutely and unalterably determined of. Now, would such a Faith, as thou hast, carry through these things? Would it uphold thee from sinking into the bottomelesse Gulfe of Despaire? This may be thy condition, thou knowest not how soone; and that Faith that thou hast, of what use would ⟨p. 195⟩it be to thee, in such a condition as this?
