Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection…Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion…

4. Hence to perish from under the Covenant will be a most astonishing perdition. If Judah provoke God to destroy her, She comes down wonderfully, even to the astonishment of all her Neighbours: Let me tell you, there are none that leave the World with such amazing Fears and Terrors that close their Lives with ⟨p. 81⟩such dreadful agonies and horrors, as such do, who have been related to the Covenant, and enjoyed the privileges of it, and slighted them: The remembrance of their Church state, their Baptism, the Ordinances they have sat under, the Threatenings, Warnings, Counsels, and Encouragements of the Covenant, which they have despised, will fill their Consciences with most dreadful regrets and reflections. and if any have been so seared, as to stifle and suppress all these remorses, and to depart this Life under a sullen and desperate hardness, or a self-cheating hope; yet, in the great Day, when the Righteous Judge shall give to every one according to their deeds, then woe, and ten thousand woes to those Children of the Church that shall have despised their privileges, and slighted the Grace proffered in the Covenant; that have sold themselves to profaneness, or lived in desperate hypocrisy, that have forgotten their Covenant-engagements to God, and brought themselves under the Curses of that Covenant. Thus you see the relation of Children to the Covenant, what are their Privileges, and what are their Dangers: God of His mercy grant both to Parents and Children Grace and Wisdom to make a right improvement of these solemn Considerations.

4. Hence to perish from under the Covenant will be a most astonishing perdition. If Judah provoke God to destroy her, She comes down wonderfully, even to the astonishment of all her Neighbours: Let me tell you, there are none that leave the World with such amazing Fears and Terrors that close their Lives with ⟨p. 81⟩such dreadfull agonies and horrours, as such do, who have been related to the Covenant, and enjoyed the priviledges of it, and slighted them: The remembrance of their Church state, their Baptisme, the Ordinances they have sat under, the Threatnings, Warnings, Counsels, and Encouragements of the Covenant, which they have despised, will fill their Consciences with most dreadfull regrets and reflections. and if any have been so seared, as to stifle and suppress all these remorces, and to depart this Life under a sullen and desperate hardness, or a self-cheating hope; yet, in the great Day, when the Righteous Judge shall give to every one according to their deeds, then woe, and ten thousand woes to those Children of the Church that shall have despised their priviledges, and slighted the Grace profered in the Covenant; that have sold themselves to profaneness, or liv'd in desperate hypocrisie, that have forgotten their Covenant-engagements to God, and brought themselves under the Curses of that Covenant. Thus you see the relation of Children to the Covenant, what are their Priviledges, and what are their Dangers: God of His mercy grant both to Parents and Children Grace and Wisdom to make a right improvement of these solemne Considerations.