The truly blessed man

1. If your Sin be not forgiven you, you are undone. Guilt, not removed▪ will drag you down to the bottomless pit: The weight of one Sin unpardoned is enough to sink you for ever. If God had not found out a way to pardon Sin, all the race of mankind had been in a desperate condition. If you appear before Christ, in the great day, in your Sins, you will not be able to stand in the Judgment.

2. The more and greater your Sins have been, the more fearful will be your Condemnation. Great Sinners have most of all need to fly to God for a pardon; for the punishment of such is like to be far more Intolerable than that of others. You should therefore look upon the aggravations of your Sins, to be the more Potent incentives to drive you to God, for forgiveness.

3. If you do not make hast, it will quickly be too late. It must be done while God sits on a throne of Grace, or else it cannot be done at all: when he hath sat out his patience, and given out the Oath, there is then no pardon to be had. And great Sinners have the greatest reason to be afraid, lest the day should be done speedily: for of all Sinners, such have least hope to escape; and such Sins give special provocation to an Holy God to make a speedy work with them. Be then awakened, and persuaded forth-with to fly to the City of Refuge.

3. If you do not make hast, it will quickly be too late. It must be done while God sits on a throne of Grace, or else it cannot be done at all: when he hath sat out his patience, and given out the Oath, there is then no pardon to be had. And great Sinners have the greatest reason to be afraid, lest the day should be done speedily: for of all Sinners, such have least hope to escape; and such Sins give special provocation to an Holy God to make a speedy work with them. Be then awakened, and perswaded forth-with to fly to the City of Refuge.