( 33) ff it were onl~ fo~ the matters of this tranfitory life. For though I may not deny hut yet man were the nobler creamre , yet alas the difference would be bm graduall and fmall, as an Ape or Dog excells aSwine : And as to his Happinefs, it is doubtful whether Man would not have the worH: of it. For as brutes have not mans knowled~, fo they have not hi~ toil a.nd trouble of mind~ his care and fear, and griefs, and dtfappomtments : Nor have t'hey fo~errible fore. thoughts of death throughall their lives, as man muil: have, much lefs fuch fears of what would follow after death. . . And therefo.re I may boldly fay, that you have thrown away your wits, and laidby your Reafon as to the,,prim:ipal ufe of it, if yo1;1 have forgf)t, or have not chie~yfought theOne thillg neceJ!~ry. Wherewere your wits when a lump of flefu was preferred before immortal fouls ? ~nd when the trouble and dung of a tranfitary world, was more efieemed then God and endlefs Glo– ry ? \Vhere ,were your wits when you might have had Chrift, and Life in him, and his pardoning, healing, fanctifying grace, and you had no mind of him, and were not fenfibl\! of your ne– ceffity, and pail him by with as much negleCt, as if you could have been faved without him? When you might long ago have made fure of Heaven ; and now you are even re.uiy to drop into Hdl, and flay but fora Feaver, or Confumption,or fomeother difeafe to cut the thred, and turn the key, unlefs a fpeedy found~ converfion £hall yet prevent ir. What have you done in'all your life-time, that fhould make a wife man judge you ReafonAhie ? Is that your Reafon to be penny wifeand pound fovlifh; to be wife to do ev1l 1 and to have no knowledge to do good? rerem. 4. 2Z. , To run up and down for I know not what, and to leave that tin,. don~ ~hac you were created and redeemed for? ~ Can you think that 1t 1s Reafon~ble to make fuch ado for the air of dying mens applaufe , and to.be we11 ehought of, or to live like Gentlemen, or to the contentment of a flefhly mind , w~en you,know that you are jufi ready to pafs out ·of this .world into an end,lefslife of Joy or Torment, (yeacertainly of ~orment,.ifyou thus,boldo~) ? . Whereall tht>fe things will afford you no 1:elief or benefit ; but the memory of your courfe will be the fucll of your mifery : Can that man be wife that damm his foul ?Can he deferve the name of a fober man, that will fell his falvation for fo {hort· fo frnall1 f~ filthy a ple~fuE~ as fl~ ·affordeth ~ h,heworthy tbe' n~me ,__ F -- ·· --··-- · ·- · or
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