The Epifile De4ictstory. Heare when you fhould hear. Know your time for elofet,'- andI.ime for fhop: and when your retiring coi a few minutes now and then fpent in taking a repetition of what formerly youheard, fhall not (I hope) another day be reckoned with your loft time. The Subject of the Trea tile is folemn, rfWar between the Saint and Satan, and that fo bloody a one, that the cruelleft which ever was fought by men, will be found but fport and childes play to this. Alas, what is the killing ofbodies to deftroying of follies,: 'Tis a fad meditation indeed,to think howmany thou lands have been fent to he grave in a few late yeares among us by the fword of man 5 But far more aftoni(h- ing, to confider howmany of thole maybe fent tohell by the fwordof Gods wrath. 'Tis a spiritual war you (hall reade of, and that not a hiftory of what. was fought many ages paft and is now over , but of what now if°, doing. the Tragedy is at prefent aeting, and that not at the furtheft end of the world, but what concernes thee and every one that reades it. The Rage whereon this war is fought is e- verymans own foul. Here is no Neuter in this war, the whole world is engaged in, the quarrel, either for God ae gainft Satan, or for Satan againft God: It wa.se a great queftion Come yeares paft, Who are you for e The not giving a good account to which bath coil many a life. 0 , my: dear friends, think Colemnly what anfwer you meane to give to God and confcience , when they in a dying houre (hall ask everyone of you, Who art thou for t; 'Tis' an incomparable mercy, that you are yet where youmay choofe your iide : It will not be ever fo, may be not a day to anend. If once in another world,' you mull then Rand toyour colours, yet you :nay run from the Devils, quarters, ° and be taken into Chrifts pay. The Drum- beats in the. Gape]. for Voluntiers. 0, theLordmake you
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