icft hand a legion of evil Angels, expecring ever~ moment to receive ~he prey. Here is a light indeed, able to break the very heart-flrmgs of each feer. If fomehave LJft their wits, by means of fome dreadful light; yea, if the very fufpicion of Devils have caufed many men to tremble, and the haircs of their heads to Hand flaring upri"bt. \:Vhat then was the fear and terrour_ of this man, when fo many dreadful, horrible' bellifh mqnflers Hood round about h1m, now ready to receive him, 0 ye fonnes of men: 1 {t~l. 1 .. 4 • .fl 1 md in aJVt andjirme not, commune JVtth yoter onm heartJ, ~tnd z,n your chamber, and beftill; Will not this fear you from your linnes? Suppofe then you)ay on your beds of death were the Judge in his Throne, your fouls at the Barn; tile accufer at your elbowe; ana hell ready open to fhut her mouth upon you : 0 then, how would you curfe you; felves, and bewatle your finnes? What horrible vifions would appear to you in the dark.} horrible mdeed! lrt fo much (faith *one) that were there no other ptmijhmem than the appearmg (f De•;ils, you IVouldrathrr burne to ajhes, than endure tlmrfight. Good God, that any Chriftian fhould live in this danger, and yet never heed it till he fees its terrour! How many have gone thus fearfully out of this miferable world? I know :lf-Cyrilde ·v:r>~ bl!ari H1e1·on. ad fin· Ep1jl. Gen. 4· 14. not what you have feen, but there is very few which have not heard of many, too many, in this cafe: What were J~<das thoughts, when he flrangled himfclf, that his bowels gu(hed out again? \Vhat were Cams vifions, when he ran like a vagabond roaring and crying, Whofoevcr findeth me jha/1flay me? What are all their affrights that cry when they an~dying, they fee Spirits and DevilsJlying about them, coming for thon, roaring againft them, as ifan hell entred into them, before themfelves could enter it? I dare inftance in no other butthis wretched mifer : What anight was that to him, when on a fudden adar(!'tj[e feized on him, that never after left him? Thus many go to bed, thilt never rife again, till they be awakened by the fearful found of the Jail: Trumpet: and was not this a terrour ? Whore heart doth not guake t Whofe fle(h doth not tremble? Whofe fenfes are not afl:onifhcd whileft we do but think on itl And then what were the futferings ofhimfelf in his perfon? He might cry, and roare; and wail, and weep, yet there is none to help him; his heart-il:rings break, the bleffed .Angel~deavehim, Devilsfl:ill expecrhim, and now the Judge hath pronounced his fentence, This night, i7J the dark_, they mufl: feizc upon him. Yet this was not all-the horrour ; it was a night both of dark_nejfe and drowjinejfe, or fcCIIrity in fin. He that reads the life of this man, may well wonder at the fearful end ofro faire beginnings: walk into his fields, and there his cartel profper; come nearer to his houfe, and there his barns fwells with corn; enter into his gates, and there e– very table flands richly furniihed; fiep yet into his chambers, and you may imagine doun.beds curtain"d with golden-hangings: nay, yet come nearer, we will draw the curtains, and you ihall view the perfon ; he bad toiled all day, ond now fee how fc– curely he takes his reft; this night, he dreams golden dreams of cafe, ofmirth, of paf. time,(as all our worldly pleafures are but waking dreams) but ftay a.whikand fee the iffue : jufllike a man, who ftarting out. offlecp, fees his houfe on fire, his goods ran~ facked, his family murthered, himfelf near loft, and not one to pity him, when the very thrufling in of an arme might deliver him : this, and no other was the cafe of this dying·mifcr: in that nig.ht while his fenfes were moll: drowfic, moft feoure, death comes in the dark,and arrdl:s him on his bed: Awakf,rich Cormorant! what charms have 1Hile4 thee thslf ajlap? Canft thou jlumker w.hileft death breai<J down this houfc thy body, to rob thte ofrhact jew~l thy. Sottl ? what a deep, dull, drowjie, dead Jleep isthis? 0 fool I this night is· thy foul af!aulted; fee Death .approaching, .EJevil.shovering, Gods juftice thrratln· ing; ca71jl thouyetJleep ?_ 11nd are thJn< eyesyer heavy? Behold, the h011re :sat hand, and thy foul m11fl be deliver.ed '!'to the h«nds ofthine entmies: Heavy eyesrl he ficeps ~dl, Ius care all,day-had call htm mto ~o ~ead a fieep this night, that nothmg. can warn htm. u~til death awake him. ,That th1ef IS. moll dangerous that couJes at mght 1 fuch ,t th1ef IS · Death, 4 thiefthitt fteals men; which the11 is moll bufie, whil~ll: we are moll drow~e, C.atro hominis moll: [ecllflf inJinne; Heark the Jluggard thatlulls htmfclf m h1s fumes, Yet a lmte 11~re jleep, a little more Jlumber, ">1ot hss deftmEI:son frsddcn, mtd povtrty comtng on h1111 l1k! l'rw. I6. "· an tmmd man? Prov. 6. IJ. Watch, (faith our Saviour)for you k,.nolV not 1vhcn the M.t– fter ofthe ho11[e comerh, at even, or At mid.night, 11t the cock..J ,,.o~v, or in rhc.morning, ltft .U.r.s•·JS,3 6 · coming]t,dden!y hejho 11 1t(ji 71 dyou Jleeping, Mark Il· .; 5. Was not this the w<etche.!· neffc of the foolifh Vlrginsa how fweetly could they fiumber? how foundly could th~y Jleep un.til mid·nigst? thf..Y never awake, nor fo much as dream to buy oyl fo• the1r Marrh.•l· x6. lan:~ps; imagine th.en.how• fearful were thofe fummons to thefe fo.uls~JJi<hoLII, the_ ,_ ! U BndegroollJ<,
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