The Christian sermons Author:Samuel Walker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dream when one awaketh, and the next altogether unfit for you; what a disconsolate soul must you be upon the moment of your separation! And, upon both these cons... more »equences, follows, in the Third place, as the event of man's apostasy, that a sentence of wrath is gone forth against the world. God is able to maintain his own cause ' he is able fully to vindicate the wrong, which the lawless world hath done to his honour. He doth not affect a dominion, which he wants power to manage. He sitteth over all from the beginning, and he remaineth a King for ever. Hell and destruction are before him, nor can any stay his hand, or say unto him, what dost thou ? And can we conceit that God, jealous of his rights, who will not give his glory to another, shall tamely submit to so provoking an insult as the universal rebellion of his creatures ? Shall he not avenge himself upon us, and make it known from one side of the heaven to the other, by the exemplary justice he will do himself upon us, that he is OOD, and there is none else ? We have drawn a curtain over his glory, nor doth he yet make that his glory to appear; he suffers it to be hid a little space; but he will magnificently glorify himself in the day of his vengeance, and all the earth shall know that GOD is the Lord. You may make light of sin, now that ye see not the hand of justice yet stretched out; ye may take little account of the dishonour ye do unto God in the strange forget- fulness of your ways; but hear what the God of truth saith, he who changeth not, and whose words shall not fail: The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked, Neh. i. 3. The soul that sinneth shall die, Ezek. xviii. 4. And the wrath of GOD is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, Ro...« less