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

how will you draw back when you see your selves upon the borders of destruction: men would be glad that the Rocks would fall upon them, and the hills cover them, so they might but escape: what will you think of it when the Devil shall lay hold of you to drag you down to hell? how will you cry out when tumbling into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone? what can comfort you in that condition? men take great delight here in their worldly enjoyments and pleasures, but what comfort will it be to have good things when they are tormented in this flame? men comfort themselves here, that they have laid a foundation of worldly greatness for their children, but what comfort will it be to them, to think that their children are eating and drinking, and sporting, when they are drinking the dregs of the wrath of God: and whatever honour their Sons come to, their flesh upon them shall have pain, and their soul within them shall mourn: you have much to do now to bear any little affliction, and how do you think to go through these calamities, where nothing will be moderate, where all evils shall fall upon you, and that in the extremity of them: you will wring your hands, and tear your hair, and gnash your teeth, and curse your day, and fill hell with outcries and lamentations: this will be your portion if you continue to reject Jesus Christ, Luk. 12.46. He shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers: it is not a matter of probability, a thing only to be much suspected, ⟨p. 274⟩but beyond all question, that you even you are a damned man if you do not entertain the calls of the Gospel, you are spending away your time in delays, but you had need resolve the case, if you refuse Christ you choose misery, you choose death, you choose eternal damnation, stand out from Christ a little longer, you are a gone man: men hope God will not be so hard to them as to damn them, especially considering the services they have done, and the pains that they have taken in religion: but there is one law for all men under the Gospel: he that believeth not shall be damned, Mat. 16.16. the unbeliever lies open to damnation on a double account, upon the account of his other sins, and upon the account of his unbelief, Jeb. 2.3. how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation: let mens other qualifications be what they will, yet if they believe not, the wrath of God abideth upon them,