( 5 )
knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; and will not you 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 you 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 it (God is just too) if mercy cannot prevail, you shall have justice enough. Take heed, O hard hearted and undaunted sinners, the just law that hath been contemned, and the righteous statutes that hath been broken, and that God that hath been provoked by you and will be revenged of you. Where is Nimrod and Nebuchadnezzer 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. 29. And if my fire be kendled, it shall burn to the bottom of hell. O therefore meditate on the
