‘a A we i a” 
iv. The Author to the Reader. 
the Word of God is not credited, 
what Force can all it’s Arguments 
“have? 
The Threatenings of the Law 
have no Terror, and the Promifes of 
the Gofpel hae no Sweetnefs in them 
to an Unbeliever. 
If Men do not believe themfelves 
concerned in the Threatenings and 
Promifes; do not apprehend that it 
is their own Danger which the Scrip- 
tutes warn them of; their own Mi- — 
fery which they defcribe;. and_ their 
own Intereft and Happinefs which 
they teach; they can receive no Im- 
preflions anfwerable to fuch a Reve- 
lation. And final Infidelity fixes 
the Soul under Wrath. * | 
In an Age of reigning Infidelity, — 
when Vice and Immorality are un- 
der no Reftraint, but practifed with 
impunity, and- without Controul, 
triumphing over all Laws, both Ee 
‘man and Divine; when Men not 
only 

# John ii, 36. 
