O this Lamh of God! Sinners were going to hell; Christ was the
delight of his Father, and had a whole heaven to himself; hut that
did not content him, heaven could not hold him, he must come into
the world to save sinners.

Aye, and had he not come thy sins had sunk thee, thy sins had
provoked the wrath of God against thee to thy destruction for ever.
There is no man hut is a sinner; there is no sin hut would damn an
angel, should God lay it to his charge.

Sinner, the doctrine of Christ crucified cries therefore aloud unto
thee, that sin has made thy condition dreadful. See yourselves, your
sins, and consequently the condition that your souls are in by the
death and blood of Christ Christ's death gives us the most clear
discovery of the dreadful nature of our sins.

I say again, if sin he so dreadful a thing as to break the heart of
the Son of God, how shall a poor, wretched, impenitent, damned
sinner wrestle with the wrath of God?

Awake, sinners; you are lost, you are undone, you perish, you are
damned; hell-fire is your portion for ever, if you abide in your
sins, and be found without a Saviour in the dreadful day of
judgment.

Sinner, doth not all this discourse make thy heart twitter after the
mercy that is with God, and after the way that is made by this
plenteous redemption thereto? Methinks it should; yea, thou couldest
not do otherwise, didst thou but see thy condition. Look behind