Sermons, on the following subjects

4. IT more evidently shows the importance of the affair, that GOD should immediately concern himself in it, than the coming of one from the dead would do. Those things about which kings most immediately concern themselves, are commonly matters of the greatest importance, while they leave less concernments to be managed by their officers. And surely th•• must be a matter of very great moment, in which GOD shows himself so much concerned, as he does in our salvation. GOD in all ages of the world hath showed himself very much concerned in this matter. How abundantly hath he warned us in his holy word? How earnest hath he shown himself in it? How many arguments and expostulations hath he used, that we might avoid the way to hell?

THIS evidently argues that what we are warned about is a matter of the utmost concern, and proves it much more than it we were only warned by one rising from the dead.

5. GOD'S warning of us of our danger of damnation hath a greater tendency to have influence upon ⟨p. 102⟩us, because he is our judge. Damnation is a punishment to which he condemns and which he inflicts. What he warns us of is his own wrath and vengeance. In his word we have his threatenings against sin denounced by himself. He tells us that if we go on in sin, he will destroy us, and cast us out of his sight, and pour out his wrath upon us, and hold us eternally under torment and misery. He tells us so himself, and this hath a much greater tendency to influence us, than to be told so by another, who is not to be our judge, who hath not in his hands the power of making us miserable.