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O that ye would consider this curse of God that stands registrate upon us
all? What effects had it on Christ, when he did bear it? It made his soul
heavy to death:—it was a cup that he could scarcely drink. He that
supported the frame of this world was almost near succumbing under the
weight of this wrath. It made him sweat blood in the garden. He that could
do all things, and speak all things, was put to this, “What shall I say?”
When this condemnation was so terrible to him, who was that Mighty One
upon whom all help was laid, what shall it be to you? No man’s sorrow was
ever like his, nor pain ever like his, if all the scattered torments were
united in one; but because he was God he overcame, and came out from under
it. But what do you think shall be the estate of those who shall endure
that same torment?—and not for three days, or three years, or some
thousands of years, but beyond imagination,—to all eternity?
I beseech you consider this condemnation which ye are adjudged unto, and
do not lie under it. Do ye think ye can endure what Christ endured? Do ye
think ye can bear wrath according to God’s power and justice? And yet the
judgment is come upon all men to this condemnation. But alas! who fears
him according to his wrath? Who knows the power of his anger? Ye sleep
secure, as if all matters were past and over your head. We declare unto
you in the Lord’s name, that this condemnation is yet above you, because
you have not judged yourselves. It is preached unto you that ye may flee
from it; but since ye will not condemn yourselves, this righteous Judge
must condemn you.
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