But what did he speak to them? Why, even that which I have told you;
to wit, That he has in special a delight in saving the biggest
sinners. He spake this in the way of his doctrine; he spake this in
the way of his practice, even to the pouring out of his last breath
before them; Luke xxiii. 34.

Now, since this is so, what can the condemned at the judgment say for
themselves, why sentence of death should not be passed upon them? I
say, what excuse can they make for themselves, when they shall be
asked why they did not in the day of salvation come to Christ to be
saved? Will they have ground to say to the Lord, Thou wast only for
saving of little sinners; and therefore because they were great ones,
they durst not come unto him? or that thou hadst not compassion for
the biggest sinners, therefore I died in despair? Will these be
excuses for them, as the case now standeth with them? Is there not
every where in God's book a flat contradiction to this, in multitudes
of promises, of invitations, of examples, and the like? Alas, alas!
there will then be there millions of souls to confute this plea;
ready, I say, to stand up, and say, O! deceived world, heaven swarms
with such, as were, when they were in the world, to the full as bad
as you.

Now, this will kill all plea or excuse, why they should perish in
their sins; yea, the text says, they shall see them there. "There
shall be weeping, when you shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,
and all the prophets in the kingdom of heaven, and you yourselves
thrust out. And they shall come from the east, and from the west,
and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the
kingdom of God;" Luke xiii. 28, 29. Out of which company it is easy
to pick such as sometimes were as bad people as any that now breathe