(;6 j !fhal!lbortly fee the Majefiy of his appeuince: and the dreadftit glory of his face; and yet do you not begin to look about you, and ro make ready for fuch a day ? Yea, before that day, your feparated fouls £hall begin to reap as you have fowed 'here.– Though now the partition that fiands between you and the world to come, do keep unbelievers frrange'to the things that·rnofl: con– cern them ; yet Death will quickly find a Portal to let yoe in ; and then finnen you will find fuch doings there, as you little thought of, or at leafi did fenfibly regard on earth. Before your Corpfe can be wrapt up in your Winding-fheets, you will fee and feel that which will tell you ro the quick, that One thingw.u ne6rJ{ary. If you do die without this One thing Nectf{ary, before your friends can have finifhed your funerals, your fouls will have taken up their places among the Devils in endlefs torment and defpair : and all the wealth, and honour, and pleafure, that the world afforded you, will not eafe you. This is fad, but it i-s trnc, Sirs; for God bath fpoken it. · Up therefore and befiir you for the life of your fouls. Nuef– ~fiJJ will awake the fiuggard. Necefiity we fay, will break Hone walls : The proudefr will fl:oop when they perceive Necefsity. :The 'mofl: fioathful will bellir them when they feel NecejHt)• .The mofl: carelefs will look about them and be indufirious in Ne– cefsity. Necefsity i~ called the Tyrant of the world, that can make men do any thing that is poilible to be done. And yet can– not Necefsit] make you ca£1 away your fins, and take up a Holy and Heavenly life ? Neceflity wiUmake men fare hard, and work "·hard, and travel hard, and gq bare , and fuffer much ; yea it will even cut off a leg or an arm ro fave their lives : And yec · can it not prevail with reafonable creatures, to t:afl: away · the poifon of a fruitlefs, filthy ,deceitful fin? and to be up and doing - for their falvation 1 0 poor fouls ! Is there, think you, a greater Neceffity of your fin then of your falv~tion ? and of pleafing your fleth for a little time, then of pleafing the Lord, and {eaping ·everlafl:ing mifery ? ~ befeech you confider your own Necef-. fities. :z. confider alfe, that, It u but One thing which God bath maele Necejfary for you. And I {hewed you before, how that the means themfelves though they aremany J have acercain unity -.. - ···-·- - · · · ·- · ·- · · · in
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