or onver ton. homeupon thy heart all God's threatnings againfl: it : Repentance drives before it the whole herd, but efpecially. fiicks the arrow in the bel<?ved fin, · and fingles thts out, above the reif:, to run 1t down, P{al. 1 8. 2 3. Oh, labour eo make this fin odious to thy fou1, anddouble thy guards, and thy refolutions againfi: it, becaufe this hath, anj doth .mofl: diiho~ nour God , and endanger thee. DireCt. III. Strive toaff::Ci thybeJrt witb .adr:ep {enfe of thy prefent mifery. ReaJ over the foregoing chap– ter a5ain, and a~ainj andget it out ofthe.book, into thine heart. Ren1ember when thou 1ie11 down , that for Ohlght thou knoweft, thoumayefl aNake in flames ; and when thou rifefl: up, that by the next night thou mayeft n1ake thy beJ inhell. Is it a juft matter to live in fuch a fearful cafe ? To fiand tot~ tering upou thebrink of the botto1nlefs pit, and to live at the mercy of every difeafe \ that if it will but · fall upon thee~ will fend thee fort:[lwith into the ·burnings? Suppofe thou f:1.we£t a condemned wretch .hanging over Neb_uc/Jadn.czz ~tr ·s burning fiery fur– ·nace,by nothingbut a twine thread, which were rea· dy tobreak every tnvme:Jt, would not thine heart t re i11b1e for fuch anone? \Vhy~ thou an: the tnan : T hisis thy very cafe,O rnan,woma ~1,t'1a t r·eade1 thi3, if thou beret un.:onverted. What if the ·thread of thy life ibould break ) (\Vhy, t hou knnwel1 n·)t hu ~~ it maybe then'exc night, yea the next 1nomer1t) VJnere· would~1 thou be then? \Vhither wouldit thou drop~ Verily,upon the .:rackbut of this thread, thou falle;l into the lake that burnerh vv> ith fi re a~d brimfione ; where t hou muft lie f:alding and -f~.veitering in a fiery o:ea:J, ~while God ha:h abei~1g, if thou die in thy pre:ent ea ~e . And·dotlin ot thy fi')ul tre nble as thou r.eade1 ? DJ not: thy tears be· · dew the paper, and t:1y heart thro:, in thy boCom? Doft thou not yet begin to fmite on thybrea1:, ~n~l beth1ni~
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