h that eternal loss, and an incomparable pain with incomparable
loss, everlasting destruction from God's presence, joined with this,
always to be destroyed, and never to be made an end of! It is the comfort
of bodily torments, and even of death itself, that it shall be quickly
gone, and the destruction ends in the destruction of the body, and so
there is no more pain. But here is an eternal destruction,--not a dying,
and then a death, but an eternal dying without tasting death. Now consider
(if ye can indeed think) what it is to have a law of enmity, and a hand
writing of ordinances against us, as many curses written up in God's
register against us, as there were transgressions of the law multiplied
and God himself engaged to be against us, to have no mercy on us, and not
to spare us! Could any heart endure, or any hands be strong, if they would
duly apprehend this? Would the denunciation of war, the publishing of
affliction, the sentence of earthly judges, would they once be remembered
beside this? If ye would imagine all the torments and rackings that have
been found out by the most cruel tyrants against men, all to be centred in
one, and all the grief and pain of these who have died terrible deaths, to
be joined in one, what would it be to this! It would be but as a drop of
that wrath and vexation that wicked souls find in hell, and are drowned
into, and that everlastingly without end.

But we must not dwell always at mount Sinai. We are called to mount Zion,
the city of the living God, to hear a sweet and calm voice of peace, to
hear the sweet and pleasant songs of the sweet Psalmist of Israel, and of
our glorious Peacemaker, Christ Jesus, the desire of all nations, and the
blessing of all the families of the earth. His song is a joyful sound, and
blessed are they that hear it. I am come, says Christ, "to seek and to
save that which was lost." I am come to save sinners, and the chief of
sinners. Let all these who find their spirits saddened by the terrible
law, or who find themselves accursed from the Lord, and cannot be
justified by the law of Moses, come unto me. Cast your souls upon me, and
ye shall find ease to them. Are ye pressed under the heavy burden of sin
and wrath? Come unto me, and I will give you ease. Put it over upon me. Do
ye think yourselves not wearied nor burdened enough, and yet ye would be
quit of sin and misery? Do your souls desire to embrace this salvation?
Come unto me, and I will not cast you