?he Life of Faith. waited on God in faith, and holinels, and hope, for that bid- fed Crown which now they were : If you hadfelt one mo- iynent of their j ayes ; ifYou had teen them thine as the Sun in gory, and made like unto the Angels of God ; if you had heard them fing the long of the Lamb, and the joyful Halle- lujahs, and praite to their eternal King : what would you be, and what would you refolve on after fuch a fight as this If the rich mau Luke 16. had teenLazarus in Abrahams bafom in the midtl of his bravery, and honour, and (cailing, and . other fenfual delights, as afterwards he law it when he was tormented in the 8kmes of Hell, do you think (each a fight would not have cooled his mirth and jollity, and helpt him to underlland the nature and 'value of his earthly felicity ; and have proved a more c fc6tuai argument than a delpifed Preachers words ? at leatl tohave brought him to a freer ex- .ercifeofhis Reafon, in a lober confiderationofhis (late and wales ? Hid youpen one hour what Abraham, David, Paul, and all the Saintsnow fee, while fin and flop Both keep us here in the dark, what work do you think your f Ives it would make upon your hearts and lives ? g, Suppofe you taw the face ofDeath, and that you were now lying under the power of tome mortal tìcknefs, Phyfi- cians hating forfaken you, and Paid, There is no hope : Your friends weeping over you, and preparingyour winding (beet and coffin, digging your graves, and calling up the skulls, and bones, and earth, that mutt again be alit in to be your covering and company : Suppofe you law a Meffenger from God to tell you that you mull die to morrow ; or heard but what one of your prcdeceffors heard, Luke i a. oo. Thou fool, this night Pall thy foulbe required of thee : then wbofe(hall thrfie things be that thou haft proviried?1 How would fuch aMel- Cage work with you ? would it leave you as you are ? If you heard a voice from God this night in your chamber in the dark, telling you, that this iv the fait night that you Pall live on earth, and before to morrow yourfouls muff be in another world, and come before the dreadfulGod: whit would be the effect offuch a Mefage ? And doyou not verily believe that all this will very (hortly be ? Nay, do you not know without .believing, that you mutt die, and leave our worldly glory? and
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