The Life of Faith. 59 We preach not to you Ifs and Ands : It is not, perhaps there is a Heaven and Hell: But as lure as you are here, and mull anon go hence, you mutt as thortly quit this world,, and take up your abode in the world that's now to us invifible. And no tongue can exprels how fenfible you will then be of the things that you will not now be made fcnfible of. O then with what a dreadful view will you look before you and be- hindyou ! Behindyou, upon Time, and fay, It is gone, andne- ver will return and hear confcience ask you, How you fpent it, and whatyou didwith it ? Before you upon Eternity, and fay, It is o.o ne ; and to the ungodly will be an Eternity of woe. What a peal will confcience then ring in the unbelievers ears ? [Now tha day is come that I was forewarned of! the day and change which I would not believe ! whither mutt I. now go ! what mull I now do ! whit (hail I lay before the Lord for all the fin that I have wilfully committed ! for all the time of mercy which I loft !' How (hail I anfwer my contempt of Chrifi ! my negle6t ofmeans, and enmity to a holy ferious l,fe ! What a ditlradted wretch was I, to condemn and difkke them thatfpent their lives, in preparation for this day ! when now I would give a thoutind worlds, tobe bat one of the manta of them ! O that the Church doe rs, and the door of grace, wert:opon to me now, as once they were, when I refufed to enter. Many a time did I hear of this day, and wouldnot be- lieve, or loberly confider of it. Many a time was I intreated to prepare : and I thought an hypocritical trifling thew, would have been taken for a futlicient preparation ! Nowwho mull be my companions ! How long mutt I dwell with woe and horrour ! God by his Minift:rs was wont to call to me, How long, 0 fcorner, wilt thou delight in (corning ? How long wilt thougo on impenitently in tby folly ? And now I enufi cry out, How long! How long muff 1feel the wrath of the allmighty 1 the unquenchable fire ! the immortal worm -! Alas, for ever ! When (hall I receive one moments cafe ? when (hall I fee one glmpfe of hope? O never, never, never! Now I perceive what Satan meant in his temptations ! what tin intended !, what God meant in the t halfnings of his Law ! what grace was-good for! what Chril was fent for ! and what was the delign and meaning of the Gape!! andhow I (hould have 12 valued
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