The wells of salvation opened, or, Words whereby we may be saved

6. But lastly, that you may fully know that you are in a lost estate, you must get conviction, that as yet you have no interest in Christ, who alone can deliver you from the wrath of God, which is to come upon the ungodly. Indeed Christ can and doth deliver his people from wrath, and the punishment their sins have deserved; but when you know that you are out of Christ, then you may know you are in a lost estate; if you suppose that you have an interest in him without good grounds, you are like to be lost irrecoverably, and not know it till it be too late; therefore you must know that as yet you have no interest in him, that all your pretensions to him have been presumptuous conceits; that so you may be lost in your own apprehensions. Can you think you have an interest in Christ, that never truly mourned for sin, that never hungered after Christ, that have no true Faith to apply him? have you interest in Christ that have no true Love to Christ, and never yielded subjection to Christ? Have you interest in Christ that have no Influence from Christ? have you Union to Christ that have no Communion with him? No, no, all you that are Unbelievers, and have persisted hitherto in a sinful course, ⟨p. 132⟩are strangers unto Christ, and therefore be convinced that you are in a lost estate: And O how should fear and trembling possess you through the apprehensions of the dreadful wrath of God? how should you go up and down like condemned malefactors, that are condemned to Hell, and know not how soon they may be dragged to execution? O what reason have you to lye down in terror, and rise up in terror, and feed upon terror all the day long! Such thoughts as these are suitable to the condition of such as you. It may be the next step I take, I may step into Hell: Alas! Alas! I am in a state of damnation, and did not know it; I have been dancing about the brinks of Hell, and did not perceive it; I have been affronting God all my days by my sins; now I see that God is highly offended with me for those sins I made light of: I am the covetous person whom the Lord abhorreth, Psal. 10.3. I am the deceiver whom he curseth, Mal. 1.14. I am the Adulterer whom he will judge, Heb 11.4. I have greatly sinned, and now I see God is greatly angry, and his anger burns like fire;