((43 j what comfort can 11ny thing in thi-1 tranfitory life; affor'd that man that haeh no matter of comfort in rhe life to come, yea that mufhbere live in endlefs forro~s ! 0 let me not ta{fe of that frantick and unrcafonable mirth, that tendeth to fucb heavif.iefs, and driveth away tbofe wife recovering thoughts that are necef– fary w prevent it'! .For rhe Lords fake, and for your fouls fake., all you cbat neglect the One thiHJ. needful, will ·you but fear eh the Scripture, and foberly confider .whether all this be not cer~ rain truth .: and if it be, how it fhould affect you, and what a .change in reafon it Qlou!d make upon you! I have done with this V fe: If you have r<~ken a furvey of your own hearts and lives, .wiii you next for theel'ercifing of your cornpaffion look a little ,further. · Vfe 2. 1 F One thing he Nadful, and the neg!eB: of rhis be fo unrea– , fonable, fo unmanly, and fo dangerous, as we have teen ic proved, then what an object of compafilon and lameruation is the diflrad:ed world .? Look upon this text of Scripture, and look alfo upon the courfe of the earth, and confider of the dif– agreement, and whether it be not frill as before the flood, that all the imaginations of man> heart are evil continually : Gen. ,6 5. were it but pofilble for a man to fee the atfedions and mo– tions of all' the world at once, 01s God feeth them, what apittiful · fight would it be ? \Vhat. a ftir do they make , alas poor fouls, for rbey know not what ? while they forger, or flight, or hate the One thing necejfary. What a heap of gadaing ants fhoulq we fee , that do nothing but gather 1hcks and firaw? Look among per~o_ns of every rank, in Cttie and.Countrey, and look into the famdte~ about you, and fee what trade it is that they are moft Luf.ily driving on, whether \t be for Heaven or earth? and whe– ther yon can difcern by their care and labours that they under-. fiand what is the Om thingnecefary? They are as bufie as bees~· but not for honey, b~at in fpinning fuch a fpiders web, aG the bee– feme of death will prefently fweep down, 'fub8. I 4. They labour hard; but for what? for the food that. perifheth , and not for t~~t which will endure to everlafiing li(e. 'fohn 6. 27. They are ~1hge~E [~ekers; but for what? Not firit fQr God his King- . --- -·- -·- ·- ---- G z -- ---· -- · a ·-· · dom ...._, ~
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