Time was, when the "Father sent forth his Son, not to condemn the world, but that through him the world might have life," John iii. 17. But the time is coming, when God shall send him arrayed with Majesty, and with righteous indignation, to condemn the rebellious world, and inflict upon them the pains of eternal death. Hast thou seen him, O my soul! in the discoveries of his mercy, fly to him with all the wings of faith and love, with all the speed of desire and joy fly to him, receive his grace, and accept of his salvation, that when the day of the wrath of the Lamb shall appear, thou mayest behold his countenance without terror and confusion.
Isaac Watts — "The Vain Refuge of Sinners: or, A Meditation on the Rocks near Tunbridge-Wells, 1729," on Revelation 6:15-17, in The World to Come: or, Discourses on the Joys or Sorrows of Death, Judgment and Eternity (Dayton: B. F. Ells, 1836), p. 119
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