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 will you not acknowledge God's kindness and goodness to you? Look into your houses, go to your tables and beds, and say, who gives these, and continues them to us? Doth not the Lord? and yet ye sin against this God. Certainly, my friends, serious meditation on this must break the heart, and cause sorrow for sin! But,

II. If the mercy, goodness, and long patience of God, will not move nor melt you, consider that God is just too, if mercy cannot prevail, you will have justice enough. Take heed, O hard hearted and undaunted sinners, the just law contemned, and these righteous statutes that have been broken, and that God that hath been provoked by you will be revenged of you. Where's Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzar, Pharoah and Herod, and all these proud persons that set their mouths against God, and their hearts against heaven; what is now become of them! they are now in the bottomless pit of hell.

As the apostle saith, our God is a consuming fire, Heb. xiii. 20. And if my fire be kindled it shall burn to the bottom of hell. Meditate then on the justice of God provoked! lest thou art called to the bar