Spiritual Per f ec on. cant and lively Expreffions do they (le- cry the Vanity of this World, and the Vanity of their Hearts in fèeking it 'Tis related of Philip King of the Ma- cedonians, that while one was pleading before him, he drop'd afleep, and wa- king on a fudden, paft Sentence againft the righteous Caule : Upon this the in jur'd Perlon cryed out, I appeal. The King with Indignation ask'd, To ïnhom He reply'd, Fren your felt fleeping to your fig f waking; and had the Judgment revers'd that was againft him. Thus in matters of eternal moment, if there be an Appeal from the fleeping to the wa4 king Thoughts of Men, when Death opens their Eyes to fee the Drofs of falfè Treafures, and the Glory of the true, what a change would it make in their Minds, AffeElions and .Anions ? But O Follyand Mifery ! they but fuperficially confider things, till con- itrain'd when 'tis too late. From thefe Confederations We under- Band the Realons of our Saviour's de- claring, 'Tis is eafe for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, ít3 for a rich Man, that miffs in his Riches, to enter into the I(ingdom of Heaven. But what is imponible with Men, is pokible with God. He can by fo ftrong a Light reprefent h huid digrrúnì fíòPidì, idiehz tibus imprecer , Opes bonores ambiant : Et cum faifa gravi Mole paraverint , tam vert cognofcant bona°
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