tat Poop ano Unfit) 'Zook. I 5 better friend toyou, than any you have in the world ? And will it make you mad to think of your houfe or land or pleatres ? Do not all men confefs that we should love God above all ? And if it make you not mad to love your friend, or your riches, or yourPelf, why fhonld it make you mad to live in the Love ofGod? Is not Love, and the noblefl Love, the fveetefl' de- light ? And will delight and the highefl delight diftra you? Tell me, Do you think that Heaven is a defrea- ble place, andbeiter than this miferable world, or noti Ifyou fayno, you bear witnefs againft your felf that you are unfit for Heaven who do not Love it or de- fire it, and God will deny you but that which you had no mind of. But if you fay, yea ; then tell me why the Hopes ofeverlafting Heavenly joyes, and the fore- thoughts theroffhouldmake one mad ? Alas man, we have no other Cordial againft all our Calamities in this world, but the Hopes and fore-thoughts of the yoyes ofLeaven. What have I to keep me from be- ingmelancholyor mad, but the Promife and belief of endlefs Glory ? If God and Heaven be not our Best;, what are we but beafts orworfe ? and what do we live for in the world? and what have we for one day to keep up our hearts under all our Croffes, but the comfortable fore-thought, that we íhall for ever be with the Lord and all his holy ones ? Take away this, and youkill our comforts I Our Hearts would fink and die withinus. And do men u fe to go mad for fear of theirfelicity ? and with delightful thoughts of the only Good ? -S. All this is true ifa man were fore of Heben But when he muff think of Hell too, andhis fears are ,g-reater than his hopes ,the Cafe is otherwii. P. Now you fay foraething : But I pray you con:. fider
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