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

The 4th Use is for advertisement, and warning to others, who are not Believers, but lie still in unbelief, and slight our blessed Lord Jesus; O! what a dreadful disadvantage, and premunire (to speak so) will ye fall under? your condition is fearful beyond what words can express, or thoughts fully comprehend; Though your Conscience sleep now, It will up upon you, and the longer it sleep, it will (to speak so) waken the hungrier, and gnaw the sore•: This, O! this, is your great prejudice, ye make your selves obnoxious to the fierce wrath of the Almighty God, and to the biting challenges and tormenting accusations of your own evil Conscience; which will be more terrible to you then if hills and mountains did fall on you, the one will be called and cried for as a favour in comparison of the other; it will in that day appear, that an evil Conscience was, and is a dreadfully evil thing; and ye will have this aggravation of your guilt, even the despising of the Redeemer, and of the dear price of his precious blood paved for the Ransom of Sinners; of the Physician that offered perfectly at his own cost to cure you; and of the Cautioner that offered freely and frankly to pay your debt; •nd this will wait upon you, to make the prickings, and piercings the woundings and stoundings, the ga• lings and gnawin•s of the Conscience mo•e deep and intolerable: Therefore let •e in the name of the Lord, (who is in earnest with you, and we desire according ⟨p. 373⟩to our measure to be in earnest with you) warn you to flee from the wrath to come; O! know that ye have Consciences, and that they (as I said before) will once awake; and when they shall begin to be roused, O! but they will challenge, and accuse in a dreadful manner; lay your account to meet with such unanswerable challenges, and confounding accusations; and if there be no other ground whereon ye can with safety bottom the eternal salvation of your immortal Souls, but the righteousness of Christ; If nothing can possibly purge▪ and pacify, cleanse and calm the Conscience, but coming to, and washing at this fountain of the blood of Christ; O! come in time; if ye cannot wash your selves, put him to it, as David doth,