travelling in the Broad-way like Fools going to the Stocks and crys after them How long will ye simple ones love simplicity 3. Is not he a Fool that takes no care to prevent afterclaps of Danger Wisdom consists in fore-sight and in prevention Is it not the property of a fool to say I had not thought my sins would have brought me to this Doth not the Lord in his Word and in his Rod cry out to poor sinners as Jonathan said to David As the Lord liveth there is but a step betwixt thee and death Oh! says God sinners sinners there are but a few steps betwixt you and death a few Years Months it may be Days betwixt you and Hell betwixt you and Ruine and yet such Fools are poor sinners that they are not solicitous to prevent their misery Oh how it will cut poor sinners to the Heart another day to sign out that dolesul note We had not thought the Great God was in good earnest with us We had not thought Divine Threatnings would have proved such Realities O this will be the Worm that will so wofully torment them We were told of all this before-hand and might have prevented it O then they will cry out what Fools they have been But all too late they see their folly by the light of that fire that so intollerably torments them 4. Is not he a Fool that doth not consult the end of his way The end in all wise Agents is first in Intention though the last in Execution Here is the difference betwixt Wisdom and Folly The one says What will this end in As the Apostle argues in that case What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed For the end of those things is death Rom. 6.21 But now a Soul that is not wise for Heaven and Salvation may say What will this Way this Course end in Will not this be bitterness in the latter end Will it not be Wrath eternal Death Damnation in the end This is a way that seems right to a man But what is the end of it The end of it is Death Prov. 14.12 Ah Sinner Sinner Art not thou a fool that never looks before thee Wast thou wise would'st thou not look before thou leapst Why dost not thou ask thy soul O my soul what will this sin of mine end in Whether will this Course and Way of mine at last lead me Is not sin the Devils high way to Hell And doth not this Course lead down to the Chambers of Death Ah poor fool All wise Men that have their Eyes in their Heads pity thee they see whether thou art going and thou wilt see too when it is too late 5. Is not he a Fool that cannot tell how to make a good choice Wisdom you know is much seen in choice The trial of a Fool hath sometimes been made thus Fools and Ideots are not to inherit Lands and when they come to try them they lay down Apples and Gold and if they chuse the Apples before the Gold they are concluded Ideots Oh doth not God put this to trial sinners foolish sinners Here is Gold and Apples laid before you Creature-Comforts the Accommodations of this Life What are these but so many Apples as Josephus tells of that grow about the Lake of Sodom that look bravely to the Eye but as soon as touched they crumble to dust And do not many thousand poor foolish Sinners choose these before the Gold Before the Gold tried in the Fire viz. Real Grace Such as make such a choice are fools and shall never Inherit Did not Moses tell the People of Israel he laid Life and Death before them Deut. 30.19 and put them to their choice And Oh! what folly sinners is it to choose Death rather than Life Oh! this will be the sting of thy eternal misery that thou like a foolish wretch didst make such a choice it was thy own choice thou art undone for ever but it was thy own doing Thou thy self art the cause of all this This will justifie God in thy own Conscience to all Eternity Oh what crying out is there Sinner in Hell What a fool was I to make such a choice I might have been happy for ever as I am now miserable if I had made a wise choice 6. Is not he a Fool that is afflicted day by day and still goes on and keeps his course of sinning still A reproof enters more into a wise Man than an hundred stripes into a Fool Prov. 17.10 A Fool will be a fool still give him one blow after another until you tell an hundred O how many blows have many sinners had Sometimes a blow in their Estates another while a blow in their Bodies another while a blow in their Families sometimes in their Trading nay added to all these sometimes in their Souls by Convictions under Ordinances And thus God lays on time after time But what comes of all these blows Alas the poor sinner is a fool still he goes on still Bray a fool in a Morter among Wheat with a Pestle yet will not his foolishness depart from him Prov. 27.22 These Fools are worse than Mad-men and Bedlams they are often restored to Reason again by Correction and Severity Poor sinner hast not thou been such a fool O how many blows hast thou laid under How many Rods hath God spent upon thee How often hath God made thee sick by smiting thee And yet Gods Rod hath not whipt out the bundle of Folly that is wrapt up in thine Heart As thou hast been so thou art a poor foolish one to this day O poor sinner what if upon thy incorrigibleness the Lord should say to thee as he did to them Why should you be smitten any more You rebel more and more O how sad would this be Sinners did you never read that word Prov. 19.29 Judgments are prepared for the scorners and stripes for the backs of Fools Thou art both whilst thou makest a mock at sin It is no wonder if the Lord have Rods for such backs 7. Is not he a Fool who hath a price put into his hand and hath no heart to use it Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get Wisdom seeing he hath no heart to it Prov. 17.16 Ah sinners how many opportunities have you had in your day to get Wisdom for your Souls for Heaven and Eternity and you have let them slip O what grand folly is this to play the fool for your precious souls Is this to redeem your time Is this to walk as wise ones As those that are wise to Salvation Is he a wise Mariner amongst you that when the Wind presents will stay on the Downs or drinking a shore and so loose his Voyage Is he a wise Man Merchant in your repute that doth not esteem his Seasons to buy his Goods and Commodities at the best hand Is he a wise Husbandman that doth not observe his Seasons for getting his Seed
is not yet done O says a wise Man I have been often about such a Business and Concernment and one thing or other doth put me off and I have neglected and delayed it but I will no longer defer it O Wisdom will say thus for the soul Have not you been often resolving solving to break off your sin often thinking you would turn from the evil of your ways Saying with the Prodigal I will arise and go to my Father But O sinner is it not yet to do Have you to this day been as good as your word O poor souls what if Death should clap an Arrest upon you before you get it done Have you any lease of your Lives May not you be sought for in the Morning and not be found Is it not then wisdom to put off that no longer which you have put off too long already 7. Is it not wisdom to do that now which is impossible to be done afterwards A wise Man will not hang a Business of Concernment upon may-be's and uncertainties O no! Thus will a wise Man argue It is certain it may now be done but it is certain it cannot be done afterwards if it be not done now There is no wisdom nor work in the Grave He that dies a fool shall be damned for a fool He will have more wisdom in Hell or however he will there see his folly but he must bear it and the merit of it to all Eternity Now is the day of Salvation and wise Men I have told you take Time by the fore-lock they redeem it It cannot be done afterwards O how positive is God in the case Luke 13.25 26. When once the Master of the House is risen up and hath shut to the Door and you begin to stand without and to knock at the Door c. But what was the answer Depart from me I know you not whence you are Yet they plead priviledges We have eaten and drunk in thy presene and thou hast Taught in our streets O they would not be said nay but doth Christ call his first words in again O no! I tell you I know you not depart from me Be gone you wretched and damned souls be gone O cutting words Were these wise Souls or Fools judg you 8. Is it not wisdom to do that which we have but a little time to do it in Were you to live the age of Methusalem or the age of the Patriarchs before the Flood you then might have something to say for your folly in delaying the great work of your sou's But alas what is your Age before God David answers the case Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth and mine age is as nothing before thee Psal 39.4 5. Suppose sinners that you should live threescore Years and ten a full Age what is this You have an hundred Years work to do in this time and what is a days time to a weeks work Or a weeks time for a years work This is the case poor sinners Time is short And is not he a foolish Traveller that hath a Journey that is large to go and only a Winter day to do it in and yet he will have it Noon ere he set out In short days you say it is now Noon and now Night Alas poor sinners It is not only Noon with many of you and the Sun of your Life may set at Noon-day but at four a Clock or five of the Clock in some of your days of Grace And is it not wisdom to make haste before it be night a night of utter Darkness eternal Darkness with you O sinners spur on put on and mend your pace else you will be nighted 9. Is it not wisdom to do that now which will bring great returns of wisdom when you die when you come to your Journeys end Wise Men will be doing that for the present which will turn to good account though they see not good of it for the present So a wise soul for Eternity for Heaven this soul will be doing that which will bring great returns Wise Merchants and wise Mariners study to make good returns Here come your returns you wise Christians when you come to die O then the soul will have returns of Peace and Comfort This was the return that Hezekiah had Lord remember me how I have walked before thee with an upright and a perfect heart O that is a sweet word of Peters Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly unto the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.10 11. Is it not greatly your wisdom to make this sure to have Peace Joy and Comfort upon a Death-bed at last 10. Is it not wisdom to do that now which you shall not have to do afterwards Now thou art moved breathed upon convinced inclined and hast a good will to repent and to return from the evil of thy ways O do it speedily for it may be neglect this time and thy Heart may be hardened Jezebel had space given her to repent in but she repented not Alas poor sinner it may be thou wilt be judicially hardned instead of mourning repenting or believing afterwards Now if thou put these together and compare them with the other ten in the Doctrinal part I think sinners you may easily see who is the Fool and who is the Wise Man and which of these you belong unto Come sinners rouze up your selves if you have plaid the fool thus long for the Lords sake for your souls sake for Christ's sake let me beg of you let me prevail with you that you play the Fools no longer lest as you have lived you shall die lest you die Fools And let me tell you sinners there is no fool like the dying fool for the dying fool will be the damned fool Prov. 14.9 Fools make a mock at Sin WE have done with the Description of the Persons in my Text the ungodly Man the Fool. We are now come to the Discovery of his Practice He makes a mock at Sin What he is you have heard but now we must enquire what he doth The Text tells us He makes a mock at Sin He is not only a Fool but he manifests his folly according to that word Prov. 13.16 A fool layeth open his folly Or spreadeth his folly layeth open the dung of his own foolishness Some read it The shame of his folly shall be spread abroad one reads it The heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness Prov. 12.23 Wherein doth this discovery of this folly consist The Text tells us They make a mock at Sin Some think the sense of it to be this * Thus some carry it They make a sport of it Seek not to appease the wrath of God kindled against them for it but amongst the Righteous there is favour viz. Among them the favour of God when they have offended is sought for by all
have say Sinners gotten a custome of it I cannot leave it Tell a sinner of his Drunkenness of his Uncleanness c. O hâ—â— hath gotten a custome of it Is this any Plea thou foolish sinner Suppose a Malefactor before a Judg of Assize should plead thus My Lord the Indictment is true I confess the Fact but I have gotten such a custome to Steal and play the Thief or I have gotten such a custome of it to cut Purses that I cannot leave it therefore I crave your Lordships favour Would this pleading Mittigate or Aggravate the Offence think you And yet is not this the Case of Thousands of sinners Some have Allegorized that passage of Lazarus being dead four days as though it set out a sinner dead in his sins and trespasses dead the first day â—y conceiving sin the second day by consenting to sin the third day by committing sin the fourth day by â—ustome in sin so that a Sinner accustomed to sin is not only dead â—ut buried in sin and a Grave-stone â—olled upon it and now no sense being left in this sinner being dead in sin he becomes a mocker at sin 6. Another thing that leads foolish ones into mocking at sin is because it doth not appear to them at present in its proper colours it appears to them in Disguises in Masks Sinners do not look at sin in two Glasses and so have not a right view and prospect of it 1. The Glass of the Law this will make sinâ— to appear in its proper colours Siâ— says Paul that it might appear sinâ— it did not appear sin before it did not look like it self before it had a painted Face but now it hath death in the Face of it yea Hell and Damnation in the Face of it Sin revived and I died Rom. 7.9 10 11 12 13. The Apparition of it thâ— sight of it kill'd him O what 〈◊〉 thing is sin that thou mockst aâ— poor sinner The sight of it will kiâ—â— a man He had been looking upon his sin in the Glass of the Law thâ— Commandment Alas Do not the most of sinners in the World look upon sin like a painted Lion that cannot take a Man by the Throat O but the Law of God will let you see it is a real Roaring Lion and will tear you to pieces if you get it not pardoned 2. There is the Glass of the Gospel to shew you sin in its proper colours The Gospel lets you see sin is the Knife that cut the Throat of Gods Isaac viz. the Lord Jesus Christ This was the Dagger that stab'd the Son of God â—o the Heart This was the Spear that let Water and Blood out of his side The Nailes that fastned his Sacred Hands to the Cross And if â—hou hadst such a sight of sin couldst â—hou nay durst thou make a mock 〈◊〉 sin 7. Another thing that leads Fools 〈◊〉 make a mock at sin is their unbelief of the severe Threatnings of â—od against it Though the Lord hath threatned it with Eternal Condemnation with Destruction yea everlasting Destruction from his Presence and the Glory of his Power to lie under Wrath to come without the least hopes of Mercy to all Eternity But alas these sinners are such fools that they put them far from them and so make a mock at that they should mourn over Did they believe the soul that sins shall die Did they believe that the wages of sin is death Did they believe that the wayes of sin do lead down unto death Did they believe that Jesus Christ will come in flaming fire rendring Vengeance to them that know him not and obey not the Gospel Could it be that they durst make a mock at sin But alas Do not all these severe Threatnings seem to them like so many idle Tales as things spoken they think meerly in Terrorem and that God will never make theâ— good upon them But what a dream what a delusion is this God will as surely perform his Threatnings as he will his Promises Not one Threatning shall fall to the ground no more than one Promise 8. Another thing that leads Fools to make a mock at sin is this A secret apprehension that they have taken up that God will never call them to an account hereafter for what sin they run into now O if poor sinners did but reckon of a day of Account of standing before a Judgment Seat of being called before Gods Bar could they durst they make a mock at sin Did the Thief in the act consider I must answer for this before the Judg would it not strike him with dread and terrour while he is about it Would he then make a mock at it What at that which he must answer for And sinner hath not God said we must all appear at his Judgment Seat And that to give an account of all the deeds done in the Body whether they be good or evil And hath not he told us after death we must come to Judgment And that we must give an account for every idle word at the great Audit-Day Then surely we must for every action Mat. 12.36 1 Pet. 4.5 Is not Christ Judg of the Quick and the Dead before whom we must all appear And sinner is all this in Jest can the Holy God thus dally with guilty sinners What is all this an idle story Is this only a Romance Are these only big words Come come poor sinners you will find every syllable of this to be true and will you go on mocking at that which you must be accountable for to an Impartial Judg Will the Judgment Day be a mocking matter Is the dreadful Tribunal of God a jesting Business Then go on like Fools and make a mock of sin 9. Thing that leads Fools to make a mock at sin is a wretched Conceit sinners have taken up that God will forget sin as fast as they commit it Tush say they will God remember He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it Psal 10.11 And so poor deluded souls go on making a mock at it Ah poor sinner what a madness is this in thee to harbour such a Conceit God did foresee such a piece of Atheism as this in the hearts of the Sons of Men therefore he hath laid us in with plentiful Texts of Scripture against it Deut. 32.34 Is not this laid up in store with me and sealed among my Treasures God hath laid them up to bring them out when occasion serves Therefore you read that in Job Job 14.17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag thou sowest up mine iniquity Some read it Thou packest up mine iniquity Others complicate them together Lays one of them upon the top of another Former sins with present sins to make up the pack and aggravate one another When the great Assizes come we read how sinners must be proceeded against out of the Books which are written says the Text Rev. 20.15 O poor
when he will Turn you out of your Clay Cottages at his pleasure Secondly Is it not folly to grieve him that can call you to an account when he will You must be accountable to him for your grieving of him at his own time and pleasure Thirdly Is it not a folly to grieve him that we cannot contend with Is there any standing out with God Did ever any harden himself against the Lord and prosper Job 9.4 Did you never Sinners read that word seriously over Can your hearts endure or your hands be made strong in that day that I shall deal with you saith the Lord Ezek. 22.14 You may it may be endure through the hardness of your hearts the day that Gods Servants deal with you But Oh Sinner God's day of dealing with thee will be another kind of Day Fourthly Is it not folly to grieve him that hath done you so many kindnesses Is not this great Ingratitude and is not this Folly O foolish People and unwise will you thus requite the Lord 4. Is not this Folly to mock at that which cost Jesus Christ his precious Blood What died the Lord Jesus Christ for Was it not the Remission of sins Without shedding of blood says the Apostle there is no Remission Heb. 1.3 When Christ had purged by himself our sins he sate down at the right Hand of the Majesty on high Ah poor sinners do not you tread the Blood of Christ under foot and account it an unclean thing while you make a mock at sin O hard hearted wretches can you make a mock at that which let out the Heart Blood of Christ Can you make that a matter of Laughter which made the Lord Jesus sorrowful even unto death Can you mock at the Gall and Vinegar that those cruel Jews that Crucified our Lord gave him to drink Would you have Laughed to have seen him hang upon the Cross You all that make a mock at sin do as much as if you Laught at him when he went to Execution And is it not Sinners to Crucifie him again and to put him to open shame 5. Is it not a Folly to mock at that which brought the Curse into the World until Sin entred into the World there was no such thing as the Curse known and to mock at sin is to mock at the Curse O what madness is this To mock at that which shortly you must feel the effects of which consists in two things First Death Temporal In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Would you know how Death that King of Terrours entred into the World and hath such an universal and uncontrollable Regency in the World The Apostle answers it Death entred into the World by sin Rom. 5.12 Ah sinners will you make a mock at Death Is dying a jesting matter with you Will you mock when this grim Serjeant shall Arrest you Will not then your mocking be turned into mourning Doth the guilty condemned Malefactor when ready to be turned off the Ladder use to die mocking at the Executioner I believe when you lie a dying you will tell another story Secondly The Curse that sin hath brought consists in eternal Death called the second Death The first Death that consists of separation betwixt Soul and Body but the second Death that consists in a seperation betwixt the Soul and God it is called Everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. 6. Is it not a Folly to make a mock at that which hath made many a poor Soul go groaning under the weight and burden of it many a Day yea many a Year Poor sinners you may sport at it for a while but if the Lord once make you feel the Load of it and lay upon you the Sense of it then your Note will be changed What was it that made David cry out Psal 38.4 5 6 7. My Wounds stink and are corrupt And at another time My Sores run day and night and ceaseth not I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart What was the matter What occasioned this tumult in the Soul of poor David He tells us For mine in quities are gone over mine head as a burden as too heavy a burden for me to bear c. And poor Sinner wilt thou mock at that which other gracious Souls have so sadly mourned over Poor penitent Souls are called weary and heavy laden Souls And shall it be to you a jesting mocking business 7. Is it not a great Folly to mock at that which Satan is so earnestly solicitous to draw Souls into It is the great design of Satan to draw Souls into Sin and Guilt It is called The work of the Devil O how industrious is he in tempting O how diligent is he in laying snares for poor Sinners And shall Sinners mock at Satans snares Are not Sinners his Vassals and Captives And is this a mocking matter to be tied to his Chariot Wheels To be lead in triumph by this devourer and destroyer of Souls Would you make a mock at a company of poor Captives that are taken by the Turks and there put into the Galleys or cruelly beaten and abused by their hard hearted Patroons And is not this the case Ah poor Soul thou art Captive to Satan for all thy mocking Thou art in a worse condition than any Galley-Slave in the World though thou art not sensible of it 8. Is it any mocking matter to mock at that which degraded Angels and Men How came Angels to be degraded from that Dignity and Honour in which they were Created We read an Answer to the Question 2 Pet. 2.4 God spared not Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into Chains of darkness to be reserved unto Judgment These Angels were glorious Courtiers once though condemned Prisoners now What was then the matter for which they were thus severely dealt with They rebelled against God and so were degraded from their first Station Jude tells us They kept not their first Station their first Estate Jude ver 6. Secondly Sin degraded Man and shall we mock at that which degraded us from that excellent State in which we were Created Man being in Honour abideth not he is like the Beast that perisheth Psal 49.12 Or Adam ledged not in Honour no not one night as the Hebrew reads it And the Septuagint He understood not He understood not the Excellency of that Estate in which he was Created and so was degraded And 〈◊〉 this a mocking matter Sinners To be degraded and stript of that glorious Robe of Original Righteousness with which he was in his Primitive State clothed To be rob'd of Communion with God and Conformity to God in which consisted his Excellency and to be degraded of this Glory O sinners is this a mocking matter Put all these Particulars together and weigh them in the Ballance of the Sanctuary and lay them to your
Ranting before their Execution Would you not think him a Mad-man indeed that should laugh in the face of the Judg passing a Sentence of Law upon him to go from the Bar to the Gibbet This is such an high degree of sin that Scorners are said to be in the highest Form in Satan's school and that he is a blessed Man that is not one with them in this Form Blessed is the Man that walketh not in the councel of the ungodly Here is one degree one form in this School Nor standeth in the way of sinners Here is another Form of Sinners and this is still an higher Form Nor fitteth in the seat of the scornful Psal 1.1 This is the highest Form in in all the Devil's School This is to take the * The Septuagint reads it Chair it is called the Chair or Seat of Pestilence To note the height and hainousness of it Other Sins are like ordinary Diseases but this is the Plague this is the Pestilence this is the highest Infection the highest Malignity of Sin Such Sinners have taken their Degree they are Masters of this Black Art and are in the Chair For the Hebrew Moshab is used for a Chair And will not you be cautioned poor Sinners against such a piece of Sin which is the highest degree of Folly and Madness Secondly O take heed poor Sinners of making a mock at sin This degree of sin arrived at very rarely are poor sinners converted from I do not say but the Lord hath had Mercy of some gone thus far But such Instances are very rare very seldom heard of When a sinner is gotten into this Seat or Chair it is a very hard thing to raise him They frequenly die upon this Seat Satan puts forth all his power to hold his own he lulls them asleep in this Chair it is the Sinners sleepy Chair and their sleep usually is unto death Those die of a Spiritual Lethergy they are not in an ordinary way recovered if at any time they be Some of Satans snares are more easily broken but this holds many until they be found dead in it The Bands of mockers are usually made strong O then poor Sinners will not you take heed of coming under such Bands Thirdly O take heed of being mockers at sin many times such have had strange testimonies born against them O how often hath God reached forth his hand against such in a very eminent manner He hath not let this sin of all others go unpunished When Men come to glory in their shame then God makes their end destruction Judgments are prepared for sinners and stripes for the backs of fools Prov. 19.29 They must be sure great Judgments that are prepared Judgments yea prepared Judgments by the great God It speaks the greatness of his Judgment as preparing Mercy speaks the greatness of his Mercy How great are those things says the Apostle God hath prepared for them that love him They are Judgments too not one Judgment but variety of Judgments Little do such sinners know what they expose themselves unto When the scorners are punished the simple is made wise Prov. 21.11 It seems the Punishments are so great that they become teaching Examples unto others They that mocked the Messengers of the Lord did not wrath come upon them and that without remedy 2 Chron. 36.16 I might give you Instances out of History but I refer the Reader to Doctor Beard 's Theatre of Gods Judgments To Mr. Fox's Book of Martyrs and to Mr. Clerks Examples least this Piece should swell too bulky for the Readers Purse Fourthly Take heed of mocking at sin in this doing you mock at God himself and will God be thus mocked Mocking at sin is virtually mocking at God 1. Do not you in thus doing mock at the Justice of God Who many times makes Examples of such Persons If he be a Just God and will reward the Proud and the Evil doers will you mock at sin that God in his Justice is engaged sooner or later to punish Is not he the Judg of all the Earth and will not he do right He that makes a mock at Stealing and Murder and Robbery doth not he make a mock of the Judg upon the Bench that sits to pass Sentence upon these Crimes And will a Judg upon the Bench bear it to be mocked by the Prisoner at the Bar O sinners what do you do when you laugh at the Justice of God which ere long must pass a final and an irreversible Sentence upon your immortal souls 2. To mock at sin is to mock at the Holiness of God Is God an Holy God and cannot look upon Iniquity Is God so Holy a God that without Holiness no Man shall ever see him Is God so Holy a God as he is Glorious in Holiness Is God so Holy a God as he cannot be approached unto but out of the hand of a Mediator Is God so Holy a God as he could not bear the sin of the fallen Angels though thought to be only sin in thought Is God so Holy a God as to cast Adam out of Paradise upon his Fall Is God so Holy a God as he will not let sin go unpunished in the dearest of his Children And will you not take heed how you mock at sin lest you mock at the Holiness of God If God was not an Holy God then you might mock on but God being thus Holy look you to it poor sinners 3. While you make a mock at sin you mock at God's Threatnings hath not the Lord dreadfully threatned sin What stand all his Threatnings upon Record for What hath God told Sinners of Wrath to come for Is all this false Fire Are all Gods Comminations in vain against sin Is there any thing in all the Word threatned with Judgments here and Judgments hereafter like sin Is not the wages of sin death Hath not God that will make it good said The soul that sins shall die And shall not his Word of threatning as sure be made good upon Impenitent Sinners as his Word of Promise shall be made good to Penitent Believers You forget Sinners that sin which you mock at is the Butt that all the Arrows of Gods Threatnings are levelled at Could you run on in Sin but that you sin off your souls the sense of Gods Threatnings against Sin Should not you say Sure there is something in it something more than ordinary in it that Sin should be thus threatned by God 4. Do not you make a mock at the Patience of God while you make a mock at Sin Do not you say with those Mockers and Scoffers that Peter speaks of Where is the Promise of his coming So many that see for the present that God doth not punish Sin that Sentence is not speedily executed therefore their hearts are hardned and they go on mocking at Sin They see not that God is a Word and a Blow so quick as Preachers make him to be but the Lord keeps silence