436 DIRECTIONS AND 'PERSUASIONS nies he parteth with his soul : and you have seen, it is like, the corpse that was left there behind; and seen it laid in the common earth. But you see not what became of the soul, nor what an appearance it made in another world, nortiwhat company did attend it, nor what a place or state it passed into, O sirs, when the hour is at hand, that this must be your own case, it will awaken you to other.-kind of affections-than you have, or can have at the reading of these words. It is wonderful, that a little distance should make us so in- sensible of that change which we are all certain will come to pass : and yet throùgh the folly and deafness of our hearts' it is so; but there are other kind of th<. wzhts of these weighty matter s,. which we shall have the next hour after death, than the liveliest affections beforehand can .afford us. The,ìnisery was great that the Redeemer did find you in, and which you deserved by your sin against the law of the Creator. But if you be found uncon- verted at last, your punishment will be much sorer, and your case far worse than it was before. The Re- deemer's law or gospel bath its peculiar threatening, which differeth from the law of the mere Creator in se ,,erai respects : Even, 1. in the nature of the punish- ment, which will be torments of conscience for the neglect of a Redeemer and "recovering grace, which you should never have felt if you never had been redeemed. 2. And in the degree of the punishment, which will be far sorer. And, 3. in the remedilessness of it, the sentence being irreversible and peremptory; the grst;law indeed provided no remedy, but it did not exclude remedy, nor make it impossible; but the law of Christ loth positively and expressly exclude all i e- medy, and leaveth the soul, that goeth unconverted out of the body, to utter desperation and misery, without help or hope of end. II. Having told you what should be the matter of your consideration, I shall, next tell you (hut briefly) in what manner you should perform it. And here I shall not stand to prescribe to you any long or exact
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