594 Book IV. Part+ Luoking unto :fef~M, Chap.2.Sect:.x Mar.17· 5· Vfe laying in for heaven againft the time :chat we !hall come and live there; we fhould have our thoughts and hearts fet upon heaven; fo it is faid of holy Mr. Ward, that b~>ing in the mid'ft of a dinner very contemplative; and the people wondering what he was mufing about, he prefently breaks our, for ever,for everJor ever; and though they endeavoured to fiill him, yet he fiill cryed out, for ever, for ever, for ever; Oh eternity ! t,o be for ever in heaven with God and Chrift , how1fhall thisfwa11ow up all other thoughts, and aimes? and efpecially all worldly, careful, finful thoughts, aimes, or ends? . 2. Pil>~te having difmilfed Jefus, this houre is concluded with-- a fad difafter of wicked {nda~; then {udM which hadbetrayed him, when heJaw that he wM condemntd, repented himfelf, &c. now his confcience thawes, and grows fomewhat tender, but it is like the tenderneffe ofa bo1 le, which is nothing elfe but a new difeafe; there is ,a repentance that comrs too late ; E fau wept bitterly; and repentedhim, when the bleffing was gone; the five foolifh Virgins lift up their voyces aloud when the gates were fhut; and in hell men fhall repent to all eternity; and fuch a repentance was this of {udM; about midnight he had received his money in the houfe of rvf11nas, and now betimes in the morning he repents his bargainr, and throws his money back againe ; the end of this tragedy was,that {udas dyed a miferable death ; he perifhed by the moil: infamou; hands tn the world (i.) by his own hands; he went and hanged himfelfe. And as Luk.f, he fell headlong and 6urft afunderin the midft, and all hisbowe/1 gufhed out. In every paffage of his death, we may take notice ofGods juftice, and be afraid of fin; it was juil: that he fhould hang in the ayre, who fur hisfinwas hated both ofheaven and earth, and that he fhould fall down headlong~ who was fallen from fuch an height of honour; and that the halter i11ould'ftrangle that throat, through which the voyceof treafon had foundrd ; and that his bowels fhould be !oil, who bad loft the bowels of all pity, piety, and compalfton ; and that his Ghoft (hould have its patfage out of his mid' it, ( he bu~il: afunder in the mid'ft) and not out of his I ps, becaufe with a kilfe of his lips he had betrayed his Lord, our bleffed Jefus. He· e's a warning piece to all the world; who would dye fuch a drath for the pleafure of a lit tle fin? or who would now fuffer for
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