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yea, nothing shall enter in that defileth or worketh an abomination.

It is called entering into the king's palace; but there are some who shall depart, under the curse of God, into everlasting punishment.

It is called entering into the wedding chamber, from which the foolish virgins are for ever excluded. The state of the just and unjust shall never be altered in the day of judgment, nor to all eternity. As they rise, so shall they continue. Some shall bear the image of the heavenly Adam, and some the image of the earthly Adam. The former shall be approved, 1 Cor. xv. 43, and the latter despised, Ps. Ixxiii. 20. Hell shall never refine the former, nor sin defile the latter. They shall unalterably and eternally remain as they rise. "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still."

32. The credulity and emptiness of those who believe in this restoration are pointblank against it. No vessel of mercy, chosen of God in Christ, ever received or died in the faith of it, because it is not an article of the faith of God's elect. No person that ever was born again believed in it, because it is not to be found among all the things which the Spirit of God teaches the heirs of promise: besides, they have passed from death unto life by faith, and are never to come into condemnation, much less into damnation; therefore they have

no call for it. The pious professors, who embrace this lie for want of a shelter, are persons made sensible that they have no part in Christ, and who are driven from every claim upon God by the force of truth and conscience; whilst, by hiding themselves under such falsehood, they tacitly acknowledge that all their former pretensions to faith in Christ Jesus, to a spiritual birth, to conversion to God, and adoption into his family, were nothing but falsehood, and their whole profession nothing but deceit and hypocrisy. None but such professors as these have any call to make their bed in hell, or to scrape any acquaintance with devils. But then persons who can dare to be stageplayers in the great day of atonement, and to act the part of hypocrites in Zion, where the King of heaven keeps his court, are, and must be, the blackest characters that exist, except devils. These are the persons who embrace purgatory, and confess their faith in it: but, as they have acted such a base part in Zion, having made shipwreck of their own faith and conscience, and having turned from the holy commandment delivered to them, like the dog to his vomit, the credit of such men in religious matters is of little weight, and their testimony of little worth. "Let God be true, and every man a liar." "They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."

33. The names of reprobates are not enrolled in the spiritual court; their witness is not in

heaven, their record is not on high. They are not found written among the living in Jerusalem, or among them that are ordained to eternal life; their names are not written among the members of Christ, Ps. cxxxix. 16; they stand not in the Lamb's book of life. They have sought their register there, but all in vain; therefore truth and conscience, those great reformers, have thrust them as unclean from the royal priesthood. They could not make their calling and election sure; and therefore they are making their reprobation clear, and their damnation certain. But how the generation of serpents are to escape the damnation of hell, is a question asked by the Lord of Hosts, and shall never be answered either by reprobates or devils; for "they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."

34. There are three characters in this world that cannot embrace Mr. Winchester's lie. And they are these: the soul that is born from above, made free by the truth, and who stands complete in Christ; the next is a sinner alarmed, awakened, convinced, and convicted, by the word and Spirit of God; and the third is, such an one as Spira, a man shut up in despair, or given up to a fearful looking for of judgment. "He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening." The Spirit of truth forbids the two former; and the sentence and earnest of eternal damnation forbids the latter. Hypocrites and wretched apostates; men of hard hearts and seared consciences, void of life and

empty of thought; such as are blinded by devils and duped by impostors; the untaught of God, who are ever learning; and the natural simpleton, who believes every word; are the recipients of Mr. Winchester's grace; and these trust in vanity, and vanity shall be their recompence. They expect hell, and it is to be feared their expectations will not be cut off: and they hope for a restoration; but the hope of the hypocrite shall perish; for "they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."

35. After the general judgment, when the earth and all the works of it are burnt up; when the devils are confined in everlasting chains, and the wicked gone into everlasting punishment; when the sun that rules the day, and the moon that rules the night; when the revolutions of day and night, weeks and months, times and seasons, years and millenniums; and when all the planets, by which times and revolutions are measured, are no more-I say, to talk of times, periods, and ages, when all is vast eternity, is talking nonsense; unless, like Milton, they mean

ages of endless date.' It is arguing against the Saviour's oath, who swears by him that liveth for ever and ever, that time shall be no more, Rev. x. 6. Mr. Winchester cannot fix the period when this restoration is to take place. It cannot be at the end of the millennium, for then the souls and bodies of all the wicked descend into hell. To fix the time is impossible. So that, upon the

whole, his uncertainty is like Bellarmine's purgatory; the former is little less than eternity, and the latter little less than hell torments. And we

may warrantably put them both together, and call them, as God does, eternal damnation, prepared for all liars; for "they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."

36. The unwarrantable liberty that Mr. Winchester has taken with God, and his word, proves him to be a blind, hardened, arrogant, presumptuous man. God will not have hardened reprobates thrust into his covenant, nor bastards and children of the devil palmed upon him. Christ has delivered these into other hands. "Ye are of your father the devil." And who, but Mr. Winchester, would thrust Cain, Esau, Judas, and devils, into the brotherly covenant, and mix them among the fraternity of Christ? The bond woman and her children, Jezebel the prophetess, the witch of Endor, and the whore of Babylon, are all brought into the Saviour's green bed, and put together with his bride, his undefiled, who is but one, the chosen daughter of God, the only one of her mother, and the choice one of her that bare her, Song vi. 9. This daring insolence will never go unresented, nor unpunished. God will avenge himself of his enemies, and ease himself of such a company of adversaries as these; for "without holiness no man shall see the Lord," nor shall the Spirit of truth ever be communicated to sanctify

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