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Show mrnallifr to wborn{oever he pleo{etb, he prepartth tl" manfioH! tbm; you have ar: ugly Engli01 faying, That {he rriJo dieth • Virginj/JJ11 lr•d apn iw Hrll. 'Tis true only of the {piritH•I Virgilt thar is rhc Soul, rhar departs Ibis world not married ro Clui!l, not united to chrill. I do nor fay that Soul O>all lead Apu, (I underH and n nr that loolifh phrafe) but it !hall h3ve itS portion in Hell. This it 1l,al\ have at the Lords hand, it ]hall lie down i;z (imorv. There is no middle between being one with Chri}l, and being one wizb the 1Jevil. The Soul is a fub!lance, incapable of a folu re efiate; every Soul is married, ~nd further married than to a Body; r that's bur the cafe it moves in) every Soul is either one wi th Heaven or Hell, with God or the Devil ; and may fay ,either I am Chri/1! and Chrijl is mine; or I am the Devils and the Devil it mi11e. Thefe are the two great Husbands of Souls; fome Souls have made a covenant with Heaven; Some have made a marriage- covenant n>ith Hell, (it is the Prophets expreffion,your a?,reement rvizb Hell, I( 28.18.) Obferve the term, lfaid, may foy. \do not mean is able fenfibly to fay ; but only hath a true right to fay fo. There is many a Soul that is truly united to Chrifi; which it may be feeth it not, •nd fo is not able with comfort and fatishcrion to it felf to fay fo. A right to a thing is one thing, a fenfe of that right is another ; and fo on the other Soul, every Soul that really hath made no other agreement than with Hell, it _may be will not fee it, is not fenfible of it (as the witch or wizzard may be to whom the Devil hath appeared, and they have made a formal explicite bargain with them for their Souls. ) But really it is fo, really there is an agreement betwixt a Soul with Chrifi, or with the Devil. Really every Soul is either its Beloved Chri[fJ, or _its Beloved the Depils, and is not this a fad confideration·? It is no more than you have out of the mouth of Chrifi himrelf, Job. 3· 18, 36. He tbdt believeth not i< damned already, v. 36. The wrath of God abideth on him ; he was by nature a child of wrath, Eph. 2. 4· and he is under the 11biding1 of this wrath. Some Souls are delivered from this wrath, believers were the children of wrath, but they are delivered from this wrath to come. Chrifi hath made them free from it, and, faith Chrifi, they are free i11deed ; but the unbelkver, as he was a Child of wrath by nature, fo faith Chrifi the wrath of God abideth on him; he remains the Spoufe of the Devil. The Devil was his beloved by nature, and he is his brlO"IIedftiU. 0 dreadfulfiate ! Secondly, From the not being conjugally united to Chrifi two thing< follow. ' r. Thou hall no Interefl in Chri(fs goodt, 2. Chrij! bath no concern in thy Debts. . 1 fay firll, Th?u haft no Intcxefi in Cbrifls goodt.'Ihou h•ft no part ,., partr~n_m thu '!latter, thou art m tht gall ofbitterntfi, and in the ba~tdiOftniqztzty,fatth the Apol!le to Simon "'"gHt.Thefame may be faid to every unbelieving Soul, there is indeed a rrdeemer comr unto Jacob,tnere !s t~ us a [on born.a Savio•r givm,and it hath pleafed the Father that m htm fi1ou!d aVf:elnefid well, that ofh;, fulnrfi n>e (hoz,/d recezve grace for grace; there is. grace in him, and glory to come- by htm ; bLtt what pa~t ha!l thou In JefTe, what portion in the Son of Dav•dl what pretence hall thou to his meritt, or to his grace> thou ha!l no 11at~ral relation to him, there is no moral union betwiKt thy Soul and htm; thou can~! lay no daim to him or any thing of his. Hence Secondly, ~hrtfi hath no concern in thy debtt, the husband hath a concern .m t~c deb~s of his Wife, they are become his debts by vertue ofhts umon wtth the Wife ; but what hath the ~usband to do w_ith the debts of that woman to whom he fi~nc!s 10 no natural re!atton,and wtth whom he hath no conjugal union; our debtt are our fin~, they all lye upon our own fhoulders, it we have no ConJugal unton with Chrill. That man that is without Chritl llands obliged in his debt of ten-thoufand talents he is b~und. to ."nfwer the jut!ice of God for all the guilt he br~ught wtth htm mto the world, and for all that guilt which he hath contrailed fi11ce he firfl came into the world. Hence he is a Soul without hope, wi~hout hope of Pardon here, or Salvation hereafter. I mean w!lile he continues in this ellate, this is the portion of every Unbe!tever, of every_Soul that is not united to the Lord Jerus ~hnll. But [proceed m the Application. H<lrfl infinitely doth this commend the love of Cbri(1 to every truly ~Jf belzev'"g Soul l .The A:pollle faith, 'lot ho(e who brlieve he is preti- 2" 1 ' · ous, and t.o b_e adrnored rn all them that brlieve, 2 ThetT. r. 10. in-dc~ d Chrtflts many w~ys to be admired in believers, but for no-thtng mor~ th~n for hts.love; nor is ~is love fc en in any thing mor_e than tn-thts grea~ mt!lery of the mtflt~~l conJugal union. That Chrt!l fhou!d become mcarnate, and unite the diville nat me to the hum10e n~tltre. fpe~cth_hva,love I~ the[• tim {endriiglbim, Joh. 3• r6. Love m tbe Sd11commg; bJt thrs might have b«n, and we -.11 have pcrt~1ed. The hypojlatic~l rmio,, indeed, [peaks a di>or of S .d va~ i o n • |