(:&3) ' b'e withot:Tt : They atway ferve himwith this referve:though it. be not alwayes explicite and difcerned by them , [ Provided that -. it may go well-with me in-the world , and I may h~tv~ fome compe• tent proportion of honour, prept or pl~afure, .,.~d Rebg~un may not – expo[e me to be undone: J If God wrl~ not rake them on th~fe terms, ( as moll cerrainly he neverWJ!l) .he m~fi go look htm other fervants : and fo he will ; and make them know at lafl: · ·umo their forrow, .that he needed not their fervice , but it was they that needed him, and the benefits of his fervice. · I thought meet (though I have done it oft before) to give · you this dtfference between the Hypocrite and the fincere : And now it is my earnefl: re<quefi unto you 011\, that you will prefently . call your fouls to an account, and know which of thefe two · wurfes you have taken; _and which. of thefe. two is your own. condition. If nature had made you fuch firangers to your fe.lves,- as that you were un_able to anfwer fuch a qqeH:ion,1 would never trouble · you with it : .but I fuppofe by faithf~l enquiry, you may know · this much of your -1elves, if you are but willing. You know w.here it ie that you have dwelt~ and -what-it u that you have hem ' dr>int, in the world, _and you can review the action; of ydur lives, . though. they have been of fmaller confequence. . Why then may you not quickly know if you will, fo great a thing, as wh.. zt hath , lmn the very :End and Bufinefs jrJr which you hav.e lived in the · world tilt no\\? ? Have you been running fo !ong, and know not - yet what i1 thepri:.:,ethat you have run for ?·Have you for·got the : erra.nd that you have been fo. long going on ? Have you been b1;1fie ~11 you,r ~aies ~ill now; and know not_ t~bout »hat ·or why? ' · Gertawly tbts ts a thmg that mAy be k_nown, tf you are willing and · diligent [0 know it : 1[ is for one of tbefe two that you have ' lived; for the world, or for qed: To pleafe your fiefo, or to . p)eafe GrJd and befavrd : Either to make provifion for Earthor Heaven: Which of thefe is it ?·Deal plainly with your felves, , for your falvation is deeply concerned in the account. Perhaps you will fay, that It was for bvtb ~ for as ~ou have a foul and a body, fo you mufl: look eo both : Yea, but fo as one rhat k~owerh, tbat One thing is Needful : As your body .is hue t~e pri[vn; the cafe; theferv&nt .of your fouls ; fo ir rnuft be pro– vtded to.r and ufed but as a.fervant, and niaimained only in a fir– ~efsfor Hs .wor~:_ J3ut the qt!d1ion is> Which of them bath hacl - da~ :
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