I have done despite to the Spirit of grace, Luke
19:14; Heh. 6:4-6; 10:28, 29; therefore I have shut myself out of
all the promises, and there now remains to me nothing but
threatenings, dreadful threatenings, fearful threatenings of certain
judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour me as an
adversary."
CHRISTIAN. "For what did you bring yourself into this condition?"
MAN. "For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the
enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now
every one of those things also bites me and gnaws me like a burning
worm."
CHRISTIAN. "But canst thou not repent and turn?"
MAN. "God hath denied me repentance. His word gives me no
encouragement to believe; yea, himself hath shut me up in this iron
cage: nor can all the men in the world let me out. O eternity,
eternity! how shall I grapple with the misery that I must meet with
in eternity?"
Then said the Interpreter to Christian, "Let this man's misery he
remembered by thee, and be an everlasting caution to thee."
"Well," said Christian, "this is fearful! God help me to watch and
he sober, and to pray that I may shun the cause of this man's
miseiy."
We that religiously name the name of Christ should depart from
iniquity, because the Spirit of the Father will else be grieved.
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