Par.t rr. A S~tlnt or A Brute~ I 33 Everlafiing life. Wo.u1dfl: t~ou under th~ ha~d and feat give · away thy hopes and poffib1hty of everlafhng hfe, and run the hazzard of an everlafiingTormen~, for the Pleafures of fi~, or to avoid the trouble of a Holy ltfe f Why then thou madr . as well even fell ir all for pins, or points, or childrens rackets Then thou ar,t as foolifh ;:~s the worfi ofWircbes, thctt fell their fotJli to a lying fpirit,, tb ~ r, whatever he doth promife them, -doth pay themwith nothing but calamity and deceir.When thou comefl: to' know bener what it is that tbe world can do for thee, thou wilt then confefs there wa$ oothing in it, that ihould not have been fleighred for the fmalejl h{)pes of an EverlafHng life. DorLthou think .rhe world will be much better to thee, for -tbetime to come than hirherro it bath pro 'fed'? Deceive not rhy felf;. it will prove the fame: yea and worfl: at Jaft. Look back now upon all the pkafures of thy life, from thy infancy to this day, and tell me what the better rhotl art for them. If thiJ were the hour of thy • death, would all the profits or pi~afures of thy life, be any comfort to thee, or make thy death a whif the eafier? Ha~e the duft or bones of the Carkaifesof Voluptuous !inners, any com– fort or benefic now,by all the pleaf1:1re of £heir form~r fin? Surely I need not all thefewords to a man of common undedlanding~. to conv-inc~ him that ifHeaven were as f4nce~tain as the Infidel doth imagine, a man of Reafon fhonld venture all that he hath upon the meer P{)Jlibility; becaufe his All indeed is Nothing~ and he is f ure he can be no lo{er by the bargain : it being not·~, fo much as the venture of a pin for the Poffibility of a. Crown. . ~tr. 3. But thats not all. What if I {b~tl prove to thee' pai.l: all denyal, that even in this life, Holinefs is far the inofl: delightful,gainjtJ/, honourable life, and that the ungodly live in a continual mifery ? Will not this ferve turn to convince thee that a Holy life, fhould beundertaken for a meer Poffibility ,ofHea– ven, 1f we had no more? Read bnt the Proofs of this anon and if r make it not good to thee, call me a deceiver.-But if I p;o-re that Holinefs is the fweeteft life on . Earth; and He11.ven the [t~,re Rew~erd hereafter ; and that fin i~ a mifery -it felf to the finner,and Hell the certain punifhment hereafter, then fee that thou com fefs that yod is a good Mafi~r 7 ,and the Devil a bad one; for at . lafi thou ihalt be forced tPconfefs it. · ~er. 4· Well-! "(_t>U fay TM '(Ire not f ure thlft there u ano:. ~· 3. --- · ~be11:
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