The law unsealed

The peremptoriness is implied in these words, The Lord will not bold him guiltless, the Lord will not, &c. which implieth. 1. That Sinners shall be reckoned with and judged for sin, in which reckoning this sin shall be especially taken notice of. 2. That all Sinners shall be summoned to appear before the Judgement-Sea• and Tribunal of God, and have their particular Libel and Accusation of their particular sins, wherein this sin shall be particularly taken notice of, as a main Article. 3. That there shall be a Sentence and Doom passed upon the guilty, and that who▪soever shall be found guilty of this sin, shall find Divine Justice severely passing Sentence upon them. 4. That there shall be a holy rigid execution of that Sentence without mercy, by a high degree of wrath upon all who shall be so Sentenced.

The peremptoriness is implyed in these words, The Lord will not bold him guiltless, the Lord will not, &c. which implyeth. 1. That Sinners shall be reckoned with and judged for sin, in which reckoning this sin shall be especially taken notice of. 2. That all Sinners shall be summoned to appear before the Judgement-Sea• and Tribunal of God, and have their particular Libel and Accusation of their particular sins, wherein this sin shall be particularly taken notice of, as a main Article. 3. That there shall be a Sentence and Doom passed upon the guilty, and that who▪soever shall be found guilty of this sin, shall find D•vine Justice severely passing Sentence upon them. 4. That there shall be a holy rigid execution of that Sentence without mercy, by a high degree of wrath upon all who shall be so Sentenced.

If any ask, How this Threatening is to be understood? for Answ. We should distinguish betwixt such, who repenting for it, do by Faith in Christ make peace with God, and others who continue in it without repentance: and so say. 1. Tha• it is not to be understood, as if the breach of this Command were declared to be simply unpardonable to any who shall be guilty of it; for that is neither consistent with the grounds of the Gospel, nor with experience, whereby it is found tha grace often extendeth it self to the pardoning even of such. 2. But that it is in it self a sin most hateful to God, and a sin that bringeth great Wrath on all that are guilty of it, and shall be found to be so, before his Judgement Seat. 3. It sayeth that all who are guilty of it, while their peace is not made with God through Jes Christ, yea in some respect there-after, should look on themselves as thus highly guilty; and that all who are not pardoned, should account themselves to be liable to this stroke of wrath, and to be under this Sentence of the Law that standeth particularly pronounced against them. 4. It sayeth, that men do by this sin, exceedingly hazard their eternal Salvation, and that their Repentance is rare, and so likewise their Pardon; it being found in experience that men, habituated to th sin of taking Gods Name in vain, do but seldom get Repentance. 5. That whe Repentance cometh, and is given, such as are guilty of it, will be in an especial manner challenged for it, and found to be in a high degree, bitter unto them in all their after-reflections upon it. 6. That it will very readily have much influence in m ring a mans peace, and obstructing the intimation of Gods favour, and the joy of his salvation, even when it is pardoned; as we see in David, who made the Name of God to be blasphemed, and was therefore put,