Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

2. That you may be sensible of your lost estate, you must get a conviction of the punishment which God hath threatened, and you have deserved for your sins; will the Lord put up the affronts which are offered to him by his Creatures? will he bear the dishonours of his great and glorious Name by sin, without punishing the sinners? No surely, his holiness will not permit it, his Justice hath been offended, and must have satisfaction, and therefore he threateneth to punish the offenders most severely; God threateneth temporal calamities and death, as the wages of sin; and because through patience he forbeareth to punish many transgressions so remarkably in this life; and the most dreadful temporal Judgements which he inflicteth upon any, are no ways proportionable to the desert of their sins, and the demands of his infinite Justice; therefore he threateneth eternal punishment in Hell; look into some places of Scripture, where the Lord doth denounce severe threatenings against sinners, Gal. 3. 10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. Rom. 1. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. Eph. 5. 6. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 2 Thess. 1. 8, 9. Christ will come in flaming fire, taking vengeance ⟨p. 40⟩on them which know not God, and obey not the Gospel, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his power, Rom. 2. 6, 8, 9. God will render unto every man according to his deeds, to them who are contentious and do not obey the truth, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish on every soul of man that doth evil. That you may see and be sensible of your lost estate, you must be convinced not only in the general of the justice and equity that such Judgements should be inflicted on sinners, because God himself hath denounced them in his Word, who cannot be unjust toward his Creatures; and because sin hath deserved them, being the breach of his Law, which is holy and just and good; and an offence of an infinite Majesty, whose Justice is infinite, and must be satisfied with a proportionable punishment unto the offence: but also you must be convinced that you are such sinners;