Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…

III. God, upon great provocations, Withdraws, or Withholds from Sinful men, the Grace, which He never owed them; and Thou! they Sin, most horribly, enormously, ⟨p. 18⟩prodigiously. There are Venomous Fires, as one may call them, in the Souls of men; The Grace of God, keeps under those Fires, with Heavenly Chains upon them: If men stir up their own Sin, till He Remove these Chains, those Fires will break forth, and belch out, and vomit up Affronts to Heaven, Like so many Flaming Mountains; men will be all over Set on Fire of Hell immediately. 'Tis very sure, That God may Deny to men, the Grace which He never Owed them. God never obliged Himself unto any Unregenerate man, to bestow the Influences of His Grace upon that man. And, if this Grace have been Despised, and Rejected, and Rebelled against, how much more unexceptionable does it still become; for the Sovereign Lord of all, to forbear bestowing of it? In this point we are Silenced, from Rom. 9.14, 15. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God Forbid For He says, I will have mercy, on whom I will have mercy. To Lie at the Foot of the Sovereign God, with an Humble Silence, under His Uncontrollable Irresistible Will, is an Essential part of that Humiliation, without which, no man shall see the Lord. Now if the Grace of God, be not granted unto Sinful men, what piece of Sinfulness will they stick at? At None at all▪ Should the Dam of Restraining Grace be taken down, a devouring Flood of Sin, will presently carry all before it.

III. God, upon great provocations, Withdraws, or Witholds from Sinful men, the Grace, which He never owed them; and Thou! they Sin, most horribly, enormously, ⟨p. 18⟩prodigiously. There are Venemous Fires, as one may call them, in the Souls of men; The Grace of God, keeps under those Fires, with Heavenly Chains upon them: If men stir up their own Sin, till He Remove these Chains, those Fires will break forth, and belch out, and vomit up Affronts to Heaven, Like so many Flaming Mountains; men will be all over Set on Fire of Hell immediately. 'Tis very sure, That God may Deny to men, the Grace which He never Ow'd them. God never oblig'd Himself unto any Unregenerate man, to bestow the Influences of His Grace upon that man. And, if this Grace have been Despised, and Rejected, and Rebelled against, how much more unexceptionable does it still become; for the Soveraign Lord of all, to forbear bestowing of it? In this point we are Silenced, from