The saints everlasting rest

Lastly, Let me ask thee, if the wrath of GOD be to be made so light of, why did the Son of GOD himself make so great a matter of it? When he had taken upon him the payment of our debt, and bore that punishment we had deserved, it makes him sweat water and blood; it makes the LORD of life to cry, My soul is heavy, even to the death. It makes him cry out upon the cross, My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Surely, if any one could have borne these sufferings, it would have been Jesus Christ. He had another measure of strength to bear it than thou hast.

Woe to poor sinners for their mad security! Do they think to find that tolerable to them which was so heavy to Christ? Nay, the Son of GOD is cast into a bitter agony, and bloody sweat, under the curse of the law only; and yet the feeble, foolish creature makes nothing to bear also the curse of the gospel: the good LORD bring these men to their right minds by repentance, lest they buy their wit at too dear a rate.

Wo to poor sinners for their mad security! Do they think to find that tolerable to them which was so heavy to Christ? Nay, the Son of GOD is cast into a bitter agony, and bloody sweat, under the curse of the law only; and yet the feeble, foolish creature makes nothing to bear also the curse of the gospel: the good LORD bring these men to their right minds by repentance, lest they buy their wit at too dear a rate.

And thus I have shown you somewhat of their misery, who miss of this rest prepared for the saints. And now, reader, I demand thy resolution, what use thou wilt make of all this? Shall it all be lost to thee? Or wilt thou consider it in good earnest? Thou hast cast by many a warning of GOD, wilt thou do so by this also? Take heed what thou dost, and how thou resolvest. GOD will not always stand warning and threatening. The hand of revenge is lifted up; the blow is coming, and woe to him on whom it lighteth. Little thinkest thou how near thou standest to thy eternal state, and how near the pit, thou art dancing in thy jollity. If thy eyes were but opened, as they will be shortly, thou wouldst see all this that I have spoken before thine eyes, without stirring from the place in which thou standest. Dost thou throw by the book, and say, it speaks of nothing but hell and damnation? Thus thou usest also to complain of the minister; but wouldest thou not have us tell thee of these things? Should we be guilty of the blood of thy soul, by keeping silent that which GOD hath charged us to make known? Wouldst thou perish in ease and silence, and also have us to perish with thee, rather than displease thee, by speaking the truth? If thou wilt be guilty of such inhuman cruelty, GOD forbid we should be guilty of such sottish folly!