who Ji tall they de that are riot able Serpai z. day ? if the leale of thy houle be altnoft expired ; and the Land-lord hach given thee warning to provide thee another habitation, for he will nor fuffer thee to renew it any more, doff thou not prefentiy enquire of thy friends, and of thy neighbours ; Sirs, can you tell me where I may have a convenient dwelling, I have but a little timer jtn the houfc where I am, and I have had warning to go olat by fuch a day ? Arc thou not careful to have an houfe ready to go to upon the very fame day thou leaven the former ? Alas ! max, dolt thou not know the leafe of thy life is alrroft out ? Nay, doll thou not know that thou art onely a Tenant at will, and God may turn thee out at an hours,at a moments warning ? and yet doli thou not make fure of an houle not made with hands, eter- nal in the Heavens ? bath not God given thee warning ? did thy head never ake ? was thy heart never lick ? furely if thou didfi not forget thy own mortality, thou wouldtft be more careful, painful, diligent in thy bufinefs. I fee frequently men upon their Fick -beds, when they think they muff die, begin to inquire after Heaven, and how they may know their fins are pardoned,and whether their fouls (hall be faved ; becaufe the apprehention of the neernefs of the grave dot!) rouze them ; and for all thou knowefl,thou,though now in heaith,mayefl be as foon in thy grave, as he that lieth fick. God can flop thy breath when he pleafeth. Art thou mortal ? look then after thy foul. 4. Is not this coo great a fleighting of the comforts of the fpirit ? of God ? of Cbrifl and happinefs ? is there not fo much excellency in ail thefe,and fweetnefs in difcerning thy propriety to them, as co provoke thee to diligence,in making fure of them ? S. Dof} not thou know that others have looked long after it, and dof} thou think thou (halt come fo eafily ro it ? others have prayed much, and fearched themfelves often, and yet have nor been able to fatisfie all their own doubts, whether they have gone farther than e- ver any Hypocrite went , and doff thou think it will be fo eafily dif- cerned, whether thy heart be fincere with God ? many finde it a hard thing to diftinguifh betwixt the highefl degrees of common grace in Hypocrites , and the kw/eft degrees of faving grace in a true Be- liever. 6. Dof% thou think that Confcience will never be awakened to dif- quiet thee, when thou canut not facisfieit about thy falvation ? will it alwayes be in this 1pirirual flumber ? doff thou think that ficknefs will never Come ? and that death will never come ? and that trouble will never feize upon thee ? when thy confcience fhall be fo alarmed, that thou wouldefl give all thou art worth to know what (hall become of thy a
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