Rejection of Christ

1. You put the greatest contempt and slight upon all the
attributes of God that is possible for a creature to do: God has
made his justice, his mercy, his wisdom, and all his attributes to
shine in their brightest glory in Christ. Never was there such a
display of the glory of God made to the world in any other way.
    O then, what is it to reject and despise Jesus Christ, but to
offer the greatest affront to the glory of God that it is possible
for men to put upon it?
    2. You hereby frustrate and evacuate the very design and
importance of the gospel to yourselves; you "receive the grace of
God in vain," 2 Cor. 6: 1. As good, yea, better has it been for you,
that Christ had never cone into the world, or, if he had, that your
lot had fallen in the dark places of the earth, where you had never
heard his name; yea, good had it been for that man if he had never
been born.
    3. Hereby a man murders his own soul. "I said therefore unto
you, that you shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I
am he, ye shall die in your sins," John 8: 24. Unbelief is
self-murder; you are guilty of the blood of your own souls: life and
salvation were offered you, and you rejected them. Yea;
    4. The refusing of Christ by unbelief will aggravate your
damnation above all others that perish in ignorance of Christ. O, it
will be more tolerable for heathens than for you; the greatest
measures of wrath are reserved to punish the worst of sinners; and
among sinners, none will be found worse than unbelievers.