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2. You have not only neglected your Salvation, but you have wilfully taken direct Courses to undo your self. You have gone on in those Ways and Practices that have directly tended to your Damnation, and have been perverse and obstinate in it.—You can't plead Ignorance; you had all the Light set before you that you could desire; God told you that you was undoing your self; but yet you would do it: He told you that the Path you was going in led to Destruction, and counselled you to avoid it; but you would not hearken: How justly therefore may God leave you to be undone! You have obstinately persisted to travel in the Way that leads to Hell for a long Time, contrary to God's continual Counsels and Commands, till it may be at length you are got almost to your Journey's End, and are come near to Hell's Gate, and so begin to be sensible of your Danger and Misery; and now account it unjust and hard, if God won't deliver you! You have destroyed your self, and destroyed your self wilfully, contrary to God's repeated Counsels, yea, and destroyed your self in fighting against God: Now therefore why do you Blame any but your self, if you are destroyed? If you will undo your self in opposing God, and while God opposes you by his Calls and Counsels, and, it may be too, by the Convictions of his Spirit, what can you object against it, if God now leaves you to be undone? You would have your own Way, and did not like that God should oppose you in it, and your Way was to ruin your own Soul: How just therefore is it, if now at length, God ceases to oppose you, and falls in with you, and lets your Soul be ruined, and as you would destroy your self, so should put to his Hand to destroy you too! The Ways you went on in had a natural Tendency to your Misery: If you would drink Poison, in Opposition ⟨p. 237⟩to God, and in Contempt of him and his Advice, who can you Blame but your self if you are poisoned, and so perish? If you would run into the Fire against all Restraints both of God's Mercy and Authority, you must even blame your self if you are burnt.

2. You have not only neglected your Salvation, but you have wilfully taken direct Courses to undo your self. You have gone on in those Ways and Practices that have directly tended to your Damnation, and have been perverse and obstinate in it.—You can't plead Ignorance; you had all the Light set before you that you could desire; God told you that you was undoing your self; but yet you would do it: He told you that the Path you was going in led to Destruction, and counsel'd you to avoid it; but you would not hearken: How justly therefore may God leave you to be undone! You have obstinately persisted to travel in the Way that leads to Hell for a long Time, contrary to God's continual Counsels and Commands, till it may be at length you are got almost to your Journey's End, and are come near to Hell's Gate, and so begin to be sensible of your Danger and Misery; and now account it unjust and hard, if God won't deliver you! You have destroyed your self, and destroyed your self wilfully, contrary to God's repeated Counsels, yea, and destroyed your self in fighting against God: Now therefore why do you Blame any but your self, if you are destroyed? If you will undo your self in opposing God, and while God opposes you by his Calls and Counsels, and, it may be too, by the Convictions of his Spirit, what can you object against it, if God now leaves you to be undone? You would have your own Way, and did not like that God should oppose you in it, and your Way was to ruin your own Soul: How just therefore is it, if now at length, God ceases to oppose you, and falls in with you, and lets your Soul be ruin'd, and as you would destroy your self, so should put to his Hand to destroy you too! The Ways you went on in had a natural Tendency to your Misery: If you would drink Poison, in Opposition