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 received him as your Saviour; for no ſooner is he employed by a ſinner, but he begins to ſave that ſinner.

Mark I. If Chriſt has really begun to ſave you, ye will have the ſaved man's thoughts of ſin, and of the wrath of God. If a drowned man were pulled alive out of a water, or a filthy, ſtinking puddle; and ſtanding at the ſide of it, looking to it after that gliff: what would be his thoughts of that water, that puddle, where he was once over head and ears, and almoſt gone? Such will be your thoughts of ſin, and of the wrath of God, Ye will have awful and reverend thoughts of the wrath of God above all awful things, Heb. xiii. 28. 29. 'Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may ſerve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a conſuming fire.' Matth. x. 28. 'Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the ſoul: But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both ſoul and body in hell.' Of all terrors it will be to you the moſt terrible. Thoſe in the ſtate of wrath, they are either ſo as they have loſt their ſenſes in it; they know not where they are, they are dreaming of ſome pleaſant place; and ſo they go on peacefully in their ſins, undiſturbed with thoughts of wrath; or elſe they have come terrible apprehenſions of it: