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Quest. 7. Another Question I would propound to you, is this; Are you willing to bear the displeasure of God? can you undergo the weight of that wrath which made his back to ache, who was mighty to do and suffer? can you with any patience hear that dreadful word pronounced by the mouth of that Judg, which will see to the execution of his sentence, Depart from me ye cursed unto everlasting torment; Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, for I know you not? Can you endure without any trouble that scalding hot wrath which is abundantly more painful then Fire and Brimstone, more intolerable then to be shut up in a burning fiery Furnace, or to be boiled in a Caldron of melted Lead, or whatsoever torments the wit of men or Devils can invent? Can you with any patience bear the Stone, Gout, Toothache, Colic, or some such distempers of body which last but for a while? O how long do you think the time when you are in that condition? how do you toss and tumble? what lamentable moan do you make? do not you think you can't be too much pitied in that condition? how then will you be able to lie down in those torments, the least drop of which is abundantly more painful then the greatest torment that ever you felt in your life? If these seem dreadful to you, why do you not go the way to avoid them? which is by getting an interest in him who hath the Keys of Hell at his griddle; for there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, to them that are brought into a state of Reconciliation and Acquaintance with God by his Son our Mediator.

Quest. 7. Another Question I would propound to you, is this; Are you willing to bear the displeasure of God? can you undergo the weight of that wrath which made his back to ake, who was mighty to do and suffer? can you with any patience hear that dreadful word pronounced by the mouth of that Judg, which will see to the execution of his sentence, Depart from me ye cursed unto everlasting torment; Depart from me ye workers of iniquity, for I know you not? Can you endure without any trouble that scalding hot wrath which is abundantly more painful then Fire and Brimstone, more intolerable then to be shut up in a burning fiery Furnace, or to be boyled in a Caldron of melted Lead, or whatsoever torments the wit of men or Devils can invent? Can you with any patience bear the Stone, Gout, Toothach, Chollick, or some such distempers of body which last but for a while? O how long do you think the time when you are in that condition? how do you toss and tumble? what lamentable moan do you make? do not you think you can't be too much pitied in that condition? how then will you be able to lie down in those torments, the least drop of which is abundantly more painful then the greatest torment that ever you felt in your life? If these seem dreadful to you, why do you not go the way to avoid them? which is by getting an interest in him who hath the Keys of Hell at his gridle; for there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, to them that are brought into a state of Reconciliation and Acquaintance with God by his Son our Mediatour.