comfortable walking with God. 165 every one of our particular day and doome cannot bee farre off. As yet,perhaps, the Alr nightieis withus, his providence proteas our"bäbrtations, itóremarkable afìiit}ion bath taken hold uponus ; fo Chat there is no mourning, or fpeáaclesof miferies inour families; no crying, O my Father Abraham, and 0 mytonne Ifaac; O my forme eAbfalom, myfoone , my f nne e.lbfalont; O Abfalom, my fânne, myfanne I And thefe housesofflelh,it maybee, wherein wee dwell for afew and evil( daies, are as yet in reafanable good repaire; and it is every way with us, as it was with lob in the daies of his youth, whenhe wafhed his (teps withbutter, and the rockes powred himout rivers ofogle ; yet wee may buildupon it, as a Principle whichnever failed finfull mortalitie, that daies ofdanger and dif}reffe will have their turne and time alfo. Sorrowand lickneffe, perplexitie and feare, temptation, de.. fertion, trouble ofconfcience, the def}roying Sword,a fierie :triall ;; ftriving unto blood ; Marian times of molt abhorred Memory, or force dreadfull vifitation in onekindor other, May feize upon us, we know not how foone. Buthowfoever we efcape in the meane time , fare dam, thefe fraile bodiesof ours, after a fhort while, will fall in fonder, and moulder a- away into rottenneffe and duft; and our naked foules mutt Randat the jut} Tribatnall of theever living God, countable withexaanefle and truth, for all things done in the bodie. Farre bee it from us then, and every one, that at the (aft and greatDay would not cry to this Rocke and that Mountains to cover him, like formes and daughters of confufion, to trifle away time in this heate of our fpirituall harvefl; but rather with doubled and extraordinarie refbolurion, let us gird up the loines of our Mindes , and with all farthfulnef1 andpower, improove every honre ofthis faire Day of our gracious vifrtation; to treafure uppeace to our poore foules againfl the flormie winter night ofdeath, towards which e- very windedrives us, and both fief pingand waking wee are potting apace, though we perceive it not. 4. Wee mutt bee countable for time. At the dreadful( Barre of that laítTribunal(, as wee mutt beexally..anfwer M able
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