Inference 2.
* 1.1Is there pardon with God for enemies, how inexcusable then are all they that persist and perish in their enmity to Christ! Sure their destruction is of themselves. Mercy is offered to them if they will receive it.* 1.2 Proclamation is made in the Gospel. That if there be any among the enemies of Christ, who repent of what they have been, and done against him; and are now unfeignedly willing to be reconciled, upon the word of a King, he shall find mercy. But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hai∣ry scalp of such a one as go••th on still in his trespasses. Psal. 68.21. If he turn not, he will whet his sword, he hath bent his bow and made it ready, he hath also prepared for him the instru∣ments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors, Psal. 7.12.
This laies the blood of every man that perishes in his enmity to Christ, at his own door. And vindicates the righteousness of God in the severest strokes of wrath upon them. This also will be a cutting thought to their hearts eternally. I might once have had pardon, and I refused it. The Gospel-Trumpet sounded a parly. Fair and gratious terms were offered, but I rejected them.