(~1) . j bath he not paid dear thin~ you for his ·riches and pieafure by this time l His feeding and f~lnefs w~squickly at an.end_; but his torment is notyaencled, nor\ever W11l be. You rhmk t£ a brave thing to clamber up to riches, '~nd that which you call greatnefs. and honour in the world : but now quickly' how terribly muft you wme down ! Go into tC~St:mfl.uqr}: of God and underft.and your end: ~urely Godh~thJet t~em ~~ jltpfery places, and c~ftah them down mto deflrucilon : flo"'J.v tZr~ .thry hrought t.P defollltJon .u in amoment! They are Htterly con(~m~drr.ith terr~urs. As a dream when one awakfneth , /@at the awa'k!m,1g, /bill! their Image (or jbadowof honour) be defpifed., Pf.alm 73. 17, 18, 1,9,20. How foort is the plcafure, •and how lo'!.g is 'e:he pain ! How fhort is the honour, and bow long is the fbame.! WQa t is it under the Sun that is everlafiing ? You have friends, hut \'!ill they dwell with you here for ever ? You havehoufes, but how lOI,t, '1/; ll vm1 fiay in them ? lt is but as yefierday fince your houfes had other lni.···"i– tants and your Towns and Countries other Inhabitants, anu wher~ are they all now? You have health, but how foon will you confume in ficknefs ? You have life, hue how foon will it end in death ? You have the pleafure of fin ; you fay unto your felvcs .Eat,drintandhe merry, but how foon will all the mirth be mat'd, and turned into fadnefs,everlafiing fadnefs ! When you hear,Thou fool, this night Putll tht] require thy[011!, and then -whof~ fball thefe thing.s be? Luk.,e 12. 20. · Oh miferable wretch ! If thou hadll chofonGad ~nfiea:d of th.J fin , .and the t'l!erlafting ](ingdom infiead of this world, thou wouldfl: not have been thus cafi off in thy extremity :Godwould have fiuck be.ttcr to thee: Heaven would have proved a more durable Inheritance : For it is a ](ingaom that cannot he moved, Heb. 12. 28. The day is near when thy defpairing foul mufl: take up.this lamentation, [My Jeareft friendJ a_re now for{akjng me , I mufi part with all_that I laboured for, and deiighred in. 1 ha-ve drtmk__ Hp all my part of plell{ure, and there uno more left. My merry company, and honours, and recretttions are paft 11nd gone ; I /hall eat, aPJddrink~, andJport no more ~: but Goi:l would not hif.ve u(ed me thm, if I haafct my heart uprm him and his Kingdor,n. Oh that 1 had chofen him, and made him my p11rtion, tmdfpent thefe thoug.hts, 11nd ct~res, and labours ,for the obtaining of his love, and promifedGlory, which I [pent frJr the pleajing and providing for my Jlefo. Then1fhould have h~da happinefs that death could not deprive K 2 - - - me
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