Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace…

Now a Word to the 2d thing, viz. The necessity of this blood of sprinkling, If it be so, as we have said, if it be so virtuous and efficacious, is there not here an encouragement for the guilty, to flee to this blood? and is there not a necessity to make use of it, a very pressing, and vehemently urging necessity? for as it was not possible for the man slayer to stand with safety before the avenger of blood out of the city of refuge; so no more ⟨p. 369⟩can the guilty sinner stand before his own Conscience▪ and far less before the Tribunal of God, Who is greater then the conscience, till this blood be fled unto, and till he get his Conscience sprinkled with it: And therefore, seeing ye have Consciences, and guilty Consciences, many sins on your score, and though the Conscience now sleep, it will most certainly once awake, and turn a hot and hard pursuer far beyond what ever any avenger of blood was, and the longer that it sleep, it will pursue the harder; and seeing Christ Jesus is as a city of refuge, to whom ye may now flee and be safe; Consider O! consider these words of the Apostle of the Gentiles, Acts 13. 38, 39. Which we, in the name of the Lord, say over again to you, Be it known unto you, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses; And it is the great end and design of the Gospel, •o proclaim the market of grace, and to make this offer unto you sinners freely; seeing I say, all this is, O! take with and be humbled under the sense of your guilt, from which ye cannot be possibly delivered any other way, and come forward and make use of it: And be-think your selves seriously, I beseech you, if this day of salvation be sitten, and if this offer of grace be despised; your Conscience may and will certainly waken upon you, yea war upon you most terribly, and ye will never get it quieted; but if ye will now in time embrace, and make use of the offer;

Now a Word to the 2d thing, viz. The necessity of this blood of sprinkling, If it be so, as we have said, if it be so virtuous and efficacious, is there not here an encouragement for the guilty, to flee to this blood? and is there not a necessity to make use of it, a very pressing, and vehemently urging necessity? for as it was not possible for the man slayer to stand with safety before the avenger of blood out of the city of refuge; so no more