The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

2. From their not believing the testimony of God he tells them plainly, that there is righteousness enough for them in Christ, that if they will come, they shall be saved: but they don't lay weight upon the Word of God, Gods Word don't remove their doubts, they are not satisfied in the preciousness of Christs righteousness, nor in the riches of Gods grace, nor in the stability of the covenant: they do not believe the report of the Gospel, Isa 53: 1. and hence they don't see their way clear, they are afraid to come to Christ, they imagine it will be presumption, they think it is a way to get a curse and not a blessing.

2. The next motive is, the certain ruin of all unbelievers: there is nothing else to be expected if you continue to reject Jesus Christ but to be destroyed for ever, the misery that will overtake you is exceeding great, 'tis not poverty, sickness, disgrace, ⟨p. 272⟩temporal death, but somewhat ten thousand times worse then those; this is that that the eternal state of your souls turn upon, if you come not unto Christ you will fall short of everlasting blessedness, and must take up your abode among Devils, you are now under a possibility of enjoying the presence of God, and dwelling in the highest heavens in unspeakable joy and happiness, but it is all lost and gone for ever if you give not entertainment to the invitations of the Gospel; and after you have spent a few days in vanity, you must lye down in sorrow and have your portion in the lowest hell; death will deliver you into the hands of tormenters, and you shall have darkness without light, pain without ease, and sorrow without joy: it had been better for you if you had never been born: the wrath of God will lie like a talent of lead upon your soul: you will have no friends, to comfort you, no worldly enjoyments to refresh you, no hopes to support you, but must set your self to bear what you cannot bear, and to endure that which is in tolerable: it may make ones flesh to tremble, to think what miseries some in this world have endured from cruel enemies, and bloody Persecutors, but those miseries were but for a little time, and fell nextly upon the body, and they are not to be compared with those miseries that are reserved for unbelievers in another world: will it not be a dreadful thing to be separated from the joys of heaven, and that glorious society that is there, will it not be dreadful to dwell with the Devil and his Angels, will it not be dreadful to be left to the terror of a guilty conscience, the beginnings whereof here have made many men choose death rather than life: will it not be dreadful to be filled brim full with the fiery wrath of God: to have every limb