1. 1Consider you had deserved the Plague, and death by the Plague, as well as those that have fallen into their Graves thereby (and it may be more too) do not think that those that have died were greater sinners than you, Luke 13.2. And Jesus answered and said unto them, suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things. Vers. 3. I tell you, nay, but except you repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Vers. 4. Or, those eighteen, upon whom the Tower of Siloam fell and slew them; think ye that they were sinners above all Men that dwelt in Jerusalem, Vers. 5. I tell you, nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish: Do you think, that those, whom the Plague hath slaughtered, that they were greater sinners then all that dwelt in London? Take heed of such conceptions: Or, if many have fallen in this judgment, that were of worser Lives than you; yet, none have fallen that had worser Hearts than you naturally h•ve: Nay, have not your sins been capable of greater aggravations than the sins of many Drunkards, and Swearers, and profane Persons, that did never sin against a God that pardoned their sins; that did never sin against such love ▪ nor after such experiences of the working of Gods Spirit upon their hear•s as you have had? Nay, consider, that you are not likely •o do God that service, nor bring to God that Glory, that some of them might have done, that are now in their Gr•ves, if God had spared them; and yet God hath lengthened out your life: Oh, what an Obligation should this be to you to remember Gods Mercy, that you ⟨p. 268⟩had Plague-deserving-sins, but yet you had not the Plague! that you have death-deserving-sins, and yet you are not dead!
1. 1Consider you had deserved the Plague, and death by the Plague, as well as those that have fallen into their Graves thereby (and it may be more too) do not think that those that have died were greater sinners than you, Luke 13.2. And Jesus answered and said unto them, suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things. Vers. 3. I tell you, nay, but except you repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Vers. 4. Or, those eighteen, upon whom the Tower of Siloam fell and slew them; think ye that they were sinners above all Men that dwelt in Jerusalem, Vers. 5. I tell you, nay, but extept ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish: Do you think, that those, whom the Plague hath slaughtered, that they were greater sinners then all that dwelt in London? Take heed of such conceptions: Or, if many have fallen in this judgment, that were of worser Lives than you; yet, none have f•llen that had worser Hearts than you naturally h•ve: Nay, have not your sins been capable of greater •ggravations than the sins of many D•unkards, and Swearers, and prophane Pe•sons, that did never sin against a God that pardoned their sins; that did never sin against such love ▪ nor after such experiences of the working of Gods Spirit upon their hear•s as you have had? Nay, consider, that you are not likely •o do God that service, nor bring to God that Glory, that some of them might have done, that are now in their Gr•ves, if God had spared them; and yet God hath lengthened out your life: Oh, what an Obligation should this be to you to remember Gods Mercy, that you ⟨p. 268⟩had Plague-deserving-sins, but yet you had not the Plague! that you have death-deserving-sins, and yet you are not dead!
- 1Helps to be sensible of the Mercy of life.Helpes to be sensible of the Mercy of life.
