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(((is there. Contempt of God is there. And what punishment does not he deserve, who thus rejects the instructions and the help of God; and the means and the hopes of salvation? Ask not him who has tacitly discarded them without a single sober reason for his impiety; ask not him "whose mouth is set against the Heavens;" and who saith to his soul, "Take thine ease," "God hath forgotten," I shall never be in adversity. But follow him to the bed of death, if he be not wholly given up to a reprobate understanding; follow him to the judgement seat of Christ where even the hardened reprobate shall at last tremble before his Maker. Ask there what death he deserves, who, when God spake, refused to hear; when he sent his Son, trampled him under foot; turned his wisdom into ridicule; and spurned the offers of life eternal? Heaven, earth & hell will approve the sentence: This my foe, who would not have me to reign over him, bring hither and slay him before me.")))

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