/ _x_o_7~6 __ B_o_ok_-v_. __ L_.__o_kz_'ng_u_nt_o_1_ef_us_.___ c_ bap. I .SeCl:.7_ Only one word ofufe, Chriflians! what's the matter that we . are fo bufie about this world ? why look about you, not one of thefc vifible objects Q:!all that day remaine, or have a being . . thofe houfes wherein we dwell, thefe Temples wherein we meet' this Town, this Country, this Ifle, and the feas and waters tha~ furround it, {hall be all on fire, and confurne to nothing; the fea fhall be no more, and time fhall be no more, or ifwe look . · higher, yond Sun, and Moone, and Stars fball be no more; that glorious heaven which rolles over our heads, fhall be rolled . together M a fcro/1, and all the hoaft [ball fall down M aleafe falldh from the vine, and M a falling jig from the jig-tree :-the hea- ~ens fball va>:i/b away like fmoa.f?.! (faita Ifaiah) comminuentur in nihi!um (as Hierome reade; i_t )they fball be bat:ered into nothi-ag. Alas ! ·alas! wh!lt do we toyhng all the day (tt may be all our life) for a little of this little, almof\: nothing -earth ? you that have an hundreth, or two hundreth, or a thoufand acres, if every acre were a Kingdome, all ~ill be at !aft burnt up; fo that none . fhall fay here was Prefton, or 'here was Lmdon, or here was England. or here was.Europe, or here was the Globe of earth on whtch men troad; let others boaf\: as they will of their inheri· ranees, but Lord give me an inheritance abov~ all thefe vifibles; . heaven iball remaine, when earth ihall vantfh; th-at empireal . lleaven, ~hofe feats of Saints, thofe man_fions above, prepared by Jefus Chnll: fball never end, but for my rtches, lands, poffeffions,. moveables, goods real or perfonal they will end in fmoake, in nothing ; wht~t ? wilt tiJou Jet thine qes upon a thin!, that is not ? upon t_his the primitive C~rifl:iansr toofdoyf:t!lj th: !poyling of heir goods, tt was but a loffe a httle berore the ttme, and they /z.new in . ther(l[elves that rhey had in heaven a bette!", a;Jd an enduring fub· . ft,mce. 0 let this be our care! here we have no abiding City, but 0 let's feek one to come, even that one that will abide for ~ver and ever. Amen. Vfe Ila. 34 4• lfl. 51· 6. SECT.
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