The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

4. It provokes the sorest and most unsupportable wrath, Take heed you despise not him that speaketh, for if they did not escape who refused him that spake on earth, much less shall we that despise him that speaks from heaven; Heb. 12.25. Take heed therefore you despise not him that speaketh; the word despise signifies in the original to despise or refuse upon some colour of reason: every man hath some seeming reason against believing; one thinks time is past, another thinks he is excluded by some antecedent d• cree of election, another thinks he is not humbled, nor holy enough, another makes excuse not by pretending his Ale-house and Whore-house, but his Farm and Merchandise, Mat. 22. another thinks he is well enough without Christ, &c. Oh take heed, for the wrath of God most intolerable is your portion, the lowest dungeon of darkness is t•y place in hell for this sin; Hear ye despisers and wonder, for I will work (saith the Lord) a work in your days, which you shall not believe though it be told you, Acts 13.41. I ⟨p. 248⟩pray you what is this work? certainly a work of wrath and vengeance; but what is it? you will not believe though you be told of it, oh you secure sinners; but what is it that they will not believe? nay truly the Lord himself is silent there, and saith nothing, as if it was so great and dreadful, that the glorious Lord himself is not able to express it; and truly no more am I: oh therefore, be not worse then that generation of Vipers that cam• in to John because some had forewarned them to escape the wrath to come, Mat. 3. but come unto a Saviour, that you may be ever blessed with him. But you will say,

4. It provokes the sorest and most unsupportable wrath, Take heed you despise not him that speaketh, for if they did not escape who refused him that spake on earth, much lesse shall we that despise him that speakes from heaven;