IV. The guilt of all thy sins hes like a mountain upon

thee. Poor soul! thou feelest it not, but this is that which seals thy misery upon thee. While unconverted, none of thy sins are blotted out. |
How light soever you may make of it now, you will one day find the guilt of unpardoned sin to be a heavy burden. This is a millstone, which whosoever falleth upon, shall be broken; but upon whomsoever it shalt fall, it shall grind him to powder, Matt. xxi. 44. What work did it make with our blessed Saviour! It press- ed the very blood out of his’ veins, and broke ‘all his bones. And if it did this in the green tree, what will it do in the dry ?
Oh think of thy case in time. Canst thou think of that threat without trembling, Ve shall die in your sins, John viii. 24. Oh better were it for thee to die ina gaol, in a dungeon, than die in thy sins. If death, as it will take away all thy other comforts, would take away thy sins too, it were some mitigation: but thy sins will follow thee, when thy friends leave thee, and all worldly enjoyments shake hands with thee: thy sins will not die with thee, as a prison’s other debts will, but they will go to judgment with thee, there to be thy accusers; and they will go to hell with thee, there to be thy tormentors. Better to have so many fiends about thee, than thy sins to fall upon thee and fasten on thee. Oh the work that these will make! Oh look over thy debts in time, how much thou art in the books of every one of God’s laws ; how is every one of God’s commandments ready to arrest thee, and take thee by the throat, for the innumerable bonds it hath upon thee. What wilt thou do then, when they shall together lay in against thee? Hold open the eyes of conscience to consider this, that thou mayest despair
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594 MISERIES OF THE, UNCONVERTED,
of thyself, and be driven to Christ, and fly for refuge to lay hold on the hope that is set beforethee. =