The Fountain of Life Opened

Inference 1.

¹If such as sometimes feel their hearts thawed and melted with the consideration of the sufferings of Christ, may yet be deceived. What cause have they to fear, and tremble: whose hearts are as unrelenting as the Rocks! Yielding to nothing that is proposed, or urged upon them? How many such are there, of whom we may say as Christ speaks of the inflexible Jews: We have Piped unto you, but ye have not Danced. We have mourned unto you, but ye have not lamented, Matth. 11.17. They must inevitably come short of Heaven, that come so short of those, that do come short of Heaven. If those perish that have rejoiced under the Promises; and mourned under the threats of the Word. What shall become of them that are as unconcerned and untouched by what they hear, as the Seats they sit on, or the dead that lie under their feet! Who are given up to such hardness of heart, that nothing can touch or affect them. One would think the consideration of the sixth Chapter to the Hebrews should startle such men and women; and make them cry out, Lord, what will become of such a senseless, stupid, dead creature as I am? If they that have been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift; and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, may, notwithstanding such high raised affections as these, so fall away, that it shall be impossible to receive them again by Repentance: what shall we then say or think of his Estate, to whom the most penetrating and awakening truths are no more than a Tale that is told? The Fire and Hammer of the Gospel can neither melt nor break them, they are Iron, and Brass, Jer. 6.28.29.

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