The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

4. Gods Judgments, added to his warnings, are wont to be his last essays with men to reclaim them. Hence, when these have been tried, and repeated, and due patience used, and no good comes of them; God, speaking after the manner of men, now seems to be at a loss, Hos. 6. 4. What shall I do unto thee, &c. Isa. 1. 5. Why should ye be smitten any more, &c. Hence he either cutteth such off in his anger, or else abandoneth them to their own •arts lusts, till they are ripe for the more astonishing ruin. True, there is a prerogative mercy that God reserves, when all means fail, to show his Sovereign Grace, Isa. 57. 17, 18. But let not bold Sinners presume on this, lest they rue it, But if any are awakened by these Judgments; and tremble at the fearful prognostics of them; let it be an argument of encouragement to them; there is hope in Israel, and this is a good Omen that God will yet return and have mercy on them, and that they shall both seek and find him,

4. Gods Judgments, added to his warnings, are wont to be his last essayes with men to reclaim them. Hence, when these have been tried, and repeated, and due patience used, and no good comes of them; God, speaking after the manner of men, now seems to be at a loss, Hos. 6. 4. What shall I do unto thee, &c. Isa. 1. 5. Why should ye be smitten any more, &c. Hence he either cutteth such off in his anger, or else abandoneth them to their own •arts lusts, till they are ripe for the more astonishing ruine. True, there is a prerogative mercy that God reserves, when all means fail, to shew his Soveraign Grace, Isa. 57. 17, 18. But let not bold Sinners presume on this, lest they rue it, But if any are awakened by these Judgments; and tremble at the fearful prognosticks of them; let it be an argument of encouragement to them; there is hope in Israel, and this is a good Omen that God will yet return and have mercy on them, and that they shall both seek and find him,