HEAVENLY LIFE UPON EARTÍI. 199 when God bids them not go, then they will be pre- sently marching. If God say, Love not the world, nor the things of the world, we dote upon it. I-low free- ly, how frequently, can we think of our pleasures, our friends, our labours, our flesh and it% lusts, yea, our wrongs and miseries, our fears and sufferings ! But where is the Christian, whose heart is on his rest? What is the matter? Are we so full of joy as to need no more? Or, is there nothing in heaven for our joy- ous thoughts ? Or rather are not our hearts carnal and stupid? Let us humble these sensual hearts, that have in them no more of Christ and glory. If this world was the only subject of our discourse, all would count us ungodly ; why then may we not call our, hearts ungodly that have so little delight in Christ and heaven ? 2. But I am speaking only to those, whose portion is in heaven, whose hopes are there, and who have forsaken all to enjoy this glory ; and shall I be discou- raged from persuading such to be heavenly - minded? Fellow - christians, if you will not hear and obey, who will? Well may we be diséouraged to exhort the blind Ungodly world, and may say, as Moses did, Be- hold the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me, how then shall Pharaoh' hear me ? I'require thee, Reader, as ever thou hopest for a part in this glory, that thou presently take thy heart to task, chide it for, its wilful strangeness to God, turn thy thoughts from the pursuit of vanity, bend thy soul to study eternity, busy it about the life to come, habituate thyself' to such contemplations, and let not those thoughts be seldom and cursory, but bathe thy soul in heaven's de- lights; and if thy backward soul begin to flag, and thy thoughts to scatter, call them back, hold them to their work, bear not with their laziness, nor connive at one neglect. And when thou hast, in obedience to God, tried this work, got acquainted with it, and kept a ward on thy thoughts till they are accustomed to obey, thou wilt then find thyself in the suburbs of hea- ven,, and that there is indeed a sweetness in the work
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