End; for you will be a Vessel of Wrath fitted to De|struction; and there will be no other Use of this Vessel but only to be filled full of Wrath: God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to him, that 'tis said he will only Laugh and Mock, Prov. 1. 25, 26, &c.
How awful are those Words, Isai. 63. 3. which are the Words of the great God, I will tread them in mine Anger, and will trample them in my Fury, and their Blood shall be sprinkled upon my Garments, and I will stain all my Raiment. 'Tis perhaps impossible to con|ceive of Words that carry in them greater Manifesta|tions of these three Things, viz. Contempt, and Ha|tred, and fierceness of Indignation. If you cry to God to pity you, he will be so far from pitying you in your doleful Case, or shewing you the least Regard or Fa|vour, that instead of that he'll only tread you under Foot: And tho' he will know that you can't bear the Weight of Omnipotence treading upon you, yet he won't regard that, but he will crush you under his Feet without Mercy; he'll crush out your Blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his Garments, so as to stain all his Raiment. He will not only hate you, but he will have you in the utmost Contempt; no Place shall be thought fit for you, but under his Feet, to be trodden down as the Mire of the Streets.
3. The Misery you are exposed to is that which God will inflict to that End, that he might shew what that Wrath of JEHOVAH is. God hath had it on his Heart to shew to Angels and Men, both how excellent his Love is, and also how terrible his Wrath is. Sometimes earthly Kings have a Mind to shew how terrible their Wrath is, by the extream Punish|ments they would execute on those that provoke 'em. Nebuchadnezzar, that mighty and haughty Monarch
