Moab hath been at ease from his youth, he hath been settled, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity, Jer. 48.11. Consider we whether our security comes not from the same cause: We have not been emptied from vessel to vessel, we have always been at rest. Why have we so little conversion? There are two things hinder it: the hardening of a mans heart against the Word: and our settling our selves on our lees. When we have no change in our condition, we are secure, we never see an evil day. That makes us say, with the Sensualists in the Prophet, To morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant, Isa. 56.12. And this is that, which slays the foolish person. Woe to them that are at ease. It were better for thee to be emptied from vessel to vessel, to go into captivity. For as long as a man continues thus in an unregenerate condition, he can look for nothing but troubles; certain Judgments must necessarily follow, and as sure as God is in Heaven, so sure may they expect misery on Earth: and they shall receive the eternal weight of God's wrath, treasured up against the day of wrath: Therefore there is a necessity of our conversion, if we will keep off either temporal, or eternal wrath. Our Saviour makes it the case of all impenitent sinners, to be liable to wrath: One Judgment befell the Galileans, another those on whom the Tower of ⟨p. 3⟩Siloam fell: But what saith our Saviour, Suppose you that these were greater sinners above all the men of Jerusalem? I tell you nay, but except you repent you shall all likewise perish, Luke 13.3. All, every Mother's Son here present, if you turn not from your sinful courses, God will meet with you one time or other, if you harden your hearts against him, be sure. Who ever hardened his heart against God and prospered? Job 9.4. As long as a man is in this condition, his state is woeful. As many as are in the state of unregeneracy, are under the power of Satan, 2 Tim. 2.25, 26. Mark the Apostles words, In meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. The state then of the hardened and settled on their lees, is as of a bird in a cage, taken alive, at the will of the Fowler.
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, he hath been setled, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity, Jer. 48.11. Consider we whether our security comes not from the same cause: We have not been emptied from vessel to vessel, we have always been at rest. Why have we so little conversion? There are two things hinder it: the hardning of a mans heart against the Word: and our setling our selves on our lees. When we have no change in our condition, we are secure, we never see an evil day. That makes us say, with the Sensualists in the Prophet, To morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant, Isa. 56.12. And this is that, which slays the foolish person. Wo to them that are at ease. It were better for thee to be emptied from vessel to vessel, to go into captivity. For as long as a man continues thus in an unregenerate condition, he can look for nothing but troubles; certain Judgments must necessarily follow, and as sure as God is in Heaven, so sure may they expect misery on Earth: and they shall receive the eternal weight of God's wrath, treasured up against the day of wrath: Therefore there is a necessity of our conversion, if we will keep off either temporal, or eternal wrath. Our Saviour makes it the case of all impenitent sinners, to be liable to wrath: One Judgment befel the Galileans, another those on whom the Tower of ⟨p. 3⟩Siloam fell: But what saith our Saviour, Suppose you that these were greater sinners above all the men of Jerusalem? I tell you nay, but except you repent you shall all likewise perish, Luke 13.3. All, every Mother's Son here present, if you turn not from your sinful courses, God will meet with you one time or other, if you harden your hearts against him, be sure. Who ever hardned his heart against God and prospered? Job 9.4. As long as a man is in this condition, his state is woful. As many as are in the state of unregeneracy, are under the power of Satan, 2 Tim. 2.25, 26. Mark the Apostles words, In meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. The state then of the hardned and setled on their lees, is as of a bird in a cage, taken alive, at the will of the Fowler.
