help? No power to .refcue, is there no other way but yeild and dye for it?' 0 mifery ! enough to break an heart of braffe ~g"in ..: Imagine that a Pnnce a whllepoffeffed fome royal City, where(ifyou w~lk thdtr~ets) you may fee peace fio~nfhmg, wealth a– bounding, pleafure waiting, all hts netghbours offenn~ th~tr fervtce, and )"rmmfing to affifl: him in all his needs·and affatrs: tf on a fudden thts Ctty .wne befieged by fome deadly enemy, who coming (like a violent £lream) takes o~e holdafter another, one wall after another one ca,He after another, and at lafl: dnves thts Prmce ondy to a _ little .Tower, and ;hcr,e .fets on him ; what fear , a~guifh and mifery would t_his Prince be in? If he looks about, his holds arc tahn, hts men ar~ flame, hts fnends a!Id \ neighbours now fl:and aloof off, and th~y begt1' to abandon huu; .were not thts a wo– ful plight.trow you? Even fo 1t_fares Wtth a poorfoul at the ho~r of her departure; the body wh'ercin fhe reigned hke a JOlly Prmc~ffe, then droops anulangutfhes, thek_:e pert 1. tremble, the.ftrong_ mm bu1v, thegrmders ceafe, and they WilY. dark_that look out at·the wm- E" /,f..u. !• dows;no wonder,iffearbe in.the way,when the m:ms,the legs, the teeth,the eye (as fo many walls wherein thefo~<l was invironed) are now furpnzed and beaten to the ground : her !all: refuge is the hetm, and this is the liltle Tower whither at !all: fhe is driven :But what is !he there fecure? No, but moil:fiercdy alfailed with a thoufand enemies ; her dear~fl: friends (yamh, and Phy{ick_, ana other helps) which foothed her in profperity, do now abandon her; what will fhe do? The enemy will grant no truce, will make: no league, but night and day affails theheart, which now ( like a Turret fl:rack with thunder) begins all to fhiver; here is the woful fiate of a wicked fo11l, God is herenemy the Devil her foe, Angels hate her, the earth groans under her, ,hell gapes fo~ her: ~he reafon of all, fin fl:ruck the alarm, and death gives the battel? It is but This night (a minute longer) and then will the r~~ing enemy enter o~ _her. De..th is nq beggar to inu·eat, no futtor to wooe, no petitioner 10 ask, no folictter to crouch and crave afavo~r ; jbe rnns raging, rn/ing, charging, req1<iring : heark this rich mans ar- Rt'•l"' ruit, refi, thy foul jhall be required.] It fhn/1? Yes, the word is peremptory; what? Be Juribu,Ja_mo. required ? Yes, it comes with authority. Here·s a fatal rcq~tiring, when the font !hall be forced by an unwilling neceffity, and droils by force hurry her to her endldfe fury. Adieu poor [0111! the Writ is fcrved, the Goal prepared, the judgement pafi, and Death (the Executioner) will delay no longer; This night thyfo~<lJhn/1 be required of thee. · But to whom fpeak I? Think of it, you miferable covetous, tlw joyn haufe to hou[e; , 1 • Vft. : and '"11 the lands afteryo11r own name;: ToMIMY tmft iny011r wealth,and bo.rftyourfeives P[aJ. 49 •6, 1 ; in the m11ltitude ofyour riches, but none ofyou can by Any means redeem his brother, no nor himfelf, Pfal. 49· 6. When Death comes, (I pray) what compofition wjth the Lord of heaven? could ever any buy out his damnation with his coyn? Howl'oever you live merrily, delicioully, go richly; yet D<ath will at !all: knock at your doors, and (m>t: withfl:anding all your wealth, honours, tc ars, an~ groans ofyour dearell: friends) will take you away as his prifoners, to his darkell: dungeon. Your c11fe is as with a man w_ho lying fall alleep upon the edge of fome fteep high rock,dreanis merrily of Crowns Kmgdomes, Poffeffions; but Up<ln the fudden, fl:arting for joy, he breaks his neck· a_ud tumbles into the bottome of fome violent fea : Thus is your danger every hour; Satan_makes you a bed, _lull~ you afleep, charms you into.golden dreams, and you concetvcyou are wallowmg mthe Sea of all worldly happinefre; at !aft det~rh comes (ag~intl which there .is no r~lillance) and then are you fuddenly fwallowed up of defpatr, and drowned m that ptt of eternal death and perdition. . l~ave re~d offome, whom (in fome fort) we might parallel with this tich nian con-· ce.rnmg thetr fcarf~l horrid departure out of this miferable world: ye~, . I fuppofe the– books are fo worktng, that any man whofoever he is, that would but read them. and P~~de_r them in a ferious way, they would certainly work in him much matter ofhulllthatton, and make him to fiiefin, as the very ll:itrg of a fcorpion. Wiliian.-Ji,,trJ One oft~em I mean to ~peak of, was an EnglijhmAn: Mr. Abbot that relates the The Y~ung fiory, tells tndeed of two m one year that died thus' uncomfortably; the one fo many• m•us """''1· . waycs lo?kmg_homewards, that he died miferably rich: the other fo lafhing outward '"~ Pl<«,. bJI that he dted nuferably poor ; both of different wayes of life, yet both of uncomforta' Ro ' Abbor. ble I?alf:~ges out ofth~·world. The one coming tahis deaths-bed; t~e Authour reports' ofhtm, tha't-lirft the Devtl prefenred himfelfunto him to he his Phyjid4n, t<nd "fur Chrift f ~ppeared t• h~Jn Jittmg on the Throne., .condemnmg_hu ~mproji.fllble life, and bidding him fo.lf:.f~r htm;rlf, for he wmld h11ve nothmg t• d• w.uh htm: The other (of whom I am toE cc: 4 fpeak)
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