ng arms? What power can break through them? And this he promised
to himself, (Psal. lvii. 3.) God shall send them out. Mercy made so many
precious promises, and truth keeps them. Mercy is the fountain and source
of all our consolation, and truth and faithfulness convey it to us, and
keep it for us. It is these two that go before his face when he sits on a
throne of majesty, and makes himself accessible to sinners (Psalm lxxxix.
14,) and so they are the pathway he walks in towards those who seek him,
Psalm xxv. 10.

But this sweet and precious name, that is as ointment poured forth to
those who love him, how doth it smell of death to those who walk contrary
to him? "He is a God of truth" to execute his threatenings on those who
despise his commands, and though ye flatter yourselves in your own eyes,
and cry, "Peace, peace," even though ye walk in the imagination of your
own heart, yet certainly "he is a God of truth." I pray you read that sad
and weighty word, that will be like a millstone about many men's necks to
sink them in hell, Deut. xxix. 20, 21, ye who "add drunkenness to thirst,"
whose rule of walking is your own lust, and whatsoever pleaseth you,
without respect of his commands, and yet flatter yourselves with a dream
of peace, know this for a truth, "the Lord will not spare thee, he that
made thee will not have mercy on thee. His jealousy will smoke against
thee, and all the curses written in this book shall be upon thee, and thy
name shall be blotted out from under heaven." It was unbelief of God's
threatening that first ruined man, it is this still that keeps so many
from the remedy, and makes their misery irrecoverable. The serpent brought
them to this question, "Hath God said ye shall die." And then presently
the question entertained becometh a conclusion, Ye shall not surely die.
Thus ye see how the liar, from the beginning, was contrary to the God of
truth, and he murdered us by lying of that God of truth, and it is the
same that shuts out all hope of remedy. Ye do not as yet believe and
consider that curse that was pronounced against Adam, but is now also
inflicted upon us, therefore, there is no solid belief can be of the
promises of the gospel, and ye who think ye believe the gospel, do but
indeed fancy it, except ye have considered the true curse of God on all
flesh. But if any man have set to his seal that God is true in his
threatening, and subscribed unto the law, then, I beseech you, add not the
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