TO A SOUND CONVERSION. 341 of you all will shortly be among other company, and in another case than now you are : you will dwell in those houses but a little longer; you will work in your shops, and fields, but a little longer; you will sit in these seats, and dwell on this earth, but a little longer ; you will see with those eyes, and hear with those ears, and speak with those tongues, but a little longer; and can you forget this? O what a place will you be shortly in of joy or torment ! O what a sight will you shortly see in heaven or hell ! O what thoughts will shortly fill your hearts with unspeakable delight or horror ! -What work will you be employed in? To praise the Lord with saints and angels, or to cry out in fire unquenchable with devils? And should all this be forgotten ? And all this will be endless, and sealed up by an unchangeable decree. Eternity, eternity, will be the measure of your joys or sorrows ; and can this be forgotten? And all this is true, most certainly true; when you have gone up and down a little longer, and slept and awaked a few times more, you will be dead and gone, and find all true which now I tell you. And can you now forget it? You shall then remember, that you heard this sermon, and that on this day, and in this place, you were 'remembered of these things: and yet shall they be now so much forgotten ? Beloved, if the Lord had not awakened me to believe and lay to heart these things myself, I should have pe- rished for ever: but if he has made me sensible of them, it will constrain me to compassionate you. If your eyes were so far opened as to see hell, and you saw your neighbours, that were unconverted, dragged thither with hideous cries, though they were such as you ac- counted honest people on earth ; such a sight would make you warn all about you, lest they should go to that place of torment. Why, faith is a kind of sight; it is the eye of the soul, the evidence of things not seen : if I believe-God, it is. next to seeing; and therefore I beseech you excuse me, if I be as earnest with you about these matters, as if I' had seen them. If I were to die to-mor- row, and it were in my power to come again from another world, and tell you what I had seen ; would
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