A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Fourthly, Consider this, ¹It is very hard to bring presumptuous Sinners to reformation and repentance; the first step to evangelical sorrow is legal terror, which the Spirit of God works by convincing the Sinner of judgment and wrath to come, but now tell a presumptuous Sinner what judgment and wrath •s due to him, that it is impossible for him to escape the vengeance of God, that justice will over-take him, read to him all the curses contained in the Book of God, and tell him that they are all entailed upon his sin; this moves him not; he knew and considered all this before; a presumptuous Sinner must be a knowing Sinner; he knows what Hell is as well as ever any Man did that hath not felt it; he knows what a precious ⟨p. 206⟩Soul he destroys, how glorious a Heaven he forfeits, what dreadful condemnation he exposeth himself to; he knows all this and yet he sins; and though this were enough, one would think, to daunt a Devil, yet he breaks through all this knowledge to his own lusts again; the Apostle speaks of such in Romans 1.32. who knows the Judgments of God, that they that commit such things are worthy of death, yet presumptuously continue in the commission of such sins; now what hope is there of reforming and reclaiming such as these are, that sin after they have cast up their accounts what it will cost them; certainly they that dare sin when they see Hell before them, there is no hope that they will leave sinning till they see Hell flaming round about them, and themselves in the midst of it.

Fourthly, Consider this, ¹It is very hard to bring presumptuous Sinners to reformation and repentance; the first step to evangelical sorrow is legal terrour, which the Spirit of God works by convincing the Sinner of judgment and wrath to come, but now tell a presumptuous Sinner what judgment and wrath •s due to him, that it is impossible for him to escape the vengeance of God, that justice will over-take him, read to him all the curses contained in the Book of God, and tell him that they are all entailed upon his sin; this moves him not; he knew and considered all this before; a presumptuous Sinner must be a knowing Sinner; he knows what Hell is as well as ever any Man did that hath not felt it; he knows what a precious