~ - - - ! ( 68.) 'i'i'Je of, ~tnd a CrDWH th~t fadeth not tti'PilJ~ Neither life nor'death ,' nor Any cre.ature could have fepllr~tet mefrom his love. 1 nfednot then have gone out of theworl~ tU 1t ri[oner out of the (jaol; to the barr 11nd to the place of execut•en. ,l'vfy dep~~trting. foul ./hould not thenneed to have been afraid of f 11tling into t·he hands of an unre– conciled God, ~~.nd fo into tht hand.s of ]heDtvils .uhis executioners, nor cf paffing out of the fi~fo to hell. · ' . Oh poor finners , for h~n' fhor t a pleafure do you· fell your hopes of everlafiing Bldfed nefs , ancl run your felves into endlefs pains ! 0 whllt compari fo~s -there between the time of your pleafure,and the cyer\afl ingne~s of.your Puni~m~nt ! How fhort a while is the Cl:lp at your moutpes? or the drmk m your bellies? or the harlot in your embract-ments ? or the wealth of the world in your Poffeffion ? .\ nd how long a rime mufi you pay for this inhell ? How quir.Aiy are y9ur merry hours pafl: L but your tor– ment~ n·:N u..:ver be pafi .When your corpfes are laid in the grave, rr· n. can fay, [ NoW he hath done hu frztufying thefle/h P~nd follow– ing the '\Vorld] but never man can truly fa.y, l NoW he h-uh done f ufferiNg for it.] Your life ·of fin -is palling as .a dream, and your honours as ::1 fhadow, and all you r bufinefs as a talc that is ·told : but the life of Glory which you rejected for this, would haveen.. dured for evermore. Supp-ofe as many thoufand years as there are. fands on the Sea, or piles of grafs on the whole earth, ot? hairs on the heads of all men in the world , yet when thefe many are pafi, the }0yof Saints and the Torments of the wicked are I as far from an end as.ever they were: The eternal God doth give them a durat ion, and make them eternal. When our joyes are at the fweerefl:, this thought mufi needs · bepart of that (w.eetnefs, that ·, their f weetmfs £hall never have an end. If our fuort fore-tafiebe Joy un[peak..ableandfull of glory, what iliall we call tliat j-oy which flows from the moft perfect fr uition and perpetuation ? I Pet. I. 7~ 8. We have roy here, but alas how feidom ! Alas how[mall in comparifon of what we may there expect ! Some {oy we have, but how oft do Melancholy or ~rwjfes) or !ojfes in the world, or tcmpt;~tions, or finJ, or deferti- -- ons .interrupt it ! ·.Our fun is here moft commonly under a cloud, and too often in an Ecclip[e; and we have the night as often as the day. Yea our fiate is u[~a/ty aWinter; Our dayer. are coldand foort, and our ni.~hts are llmg. But when the flourifhing fiate of ~ gl-ory come.s~we_fhall have no l~terfcijfion.s.. nor .Ecc.lipfes. The.. · · · · - · path
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