f1ea'd If. Cautiotu again.fl fo/fo Hope,. t.ip their peace with Pod: ~ut man lieth down, tiHd 'rifet~ 'not till the heavenJ be no mote; they /ha(/ not awake, n~r Be raifedout of their jleep,' Jobxiv. 12. · Lafl!y, In the other world, men ' have no ,acc'efs to get their ruined fia:te and tondition ret'rieved, if they never fo fain would; Ff/r there iJ tfo 'work, not;. d::·oice; ndr' kniJw!edge, no_r wifdo1n in th~ jrave whither thou g'oifi, Ecclef. ix. 1 o. Now, a man may flee from the wrath to come; now he may get into a re– fuge : but when once deat~. his done itS' work, the door ir \ jhut; there ate no n1oie offers of me,cy, no mote .pardons: where the tr'ee is f..tllen, there ·it qJafi: lie. Let what has be'e~ faid be careft~lly pondered., and that it may be of ufe? let me exhort ,you, . ffrfl, To ta~e heed that ye entertain no hopes o~ 1lea– ve:n, but what are built on a (Qlid ·fou6dati'o'n: tremble to th'ink what fair hopes of bappin.Ms d·eaih fwee·ps away like cobwebs ; how the hopes of many · are cat off. when they feein .to rhemfe'lves·to be oa roe ve·ry thrdhold of heaven ; how, in the moment they e·xpecred to be carried by angels into Abraham's bofom, into the regions of blifs and peace, tney are carried by devils in'to the fociety of the da'mned in h'eH, i.iito the place of torment, and regions of horror. f _befee.ch 'YOU to beware, ( 1.) Of a hope bui,lt l~p·, where the gr~imd was never cleared. The wife bUilder diggt·d deep, .Uuke vi. 48·. Were yo ti'r hopes of hea.Ven never fhaken; but y'e have 'fiad good hopes all your day~ ? ATas for it; 'yo'u' may fee the myftery of your cafe exp1ained, Ltde xi. 2·f. ,Wk_en t1 flrong ffttm a1'1/1ed keepeth hjj palace, hi; f!. Ood; tire in p-etra. But if they· b·ave ,tee'n fh :tken take hee-d le!i: there nave on'ly fcime b-reaches been mad'e in the old b~ilding. whicli you tiave got.repaired ,agaia, by ways and meac-. s of yo·ur own. I affure you·, your hope (ho'\vfoever fair a bni!d· ing.,it is) is .not to trun to; unle!s your old hopes have been 1.azed, and you have' b'uih on a foundatiori .qu'ite new. ( 2.) 'Beware of tha~ hope which loob hrifk in the c!a : k , but lofeth a!l' its lull:re yihen it is fet in the Hghi. rif God's word, when it is examined and tried by the tou r.:h ft one of d;v!ne revelation, Johniii. 20. For n·er_y one that dqth e·r:i!, hateth 'theJight; neither cometh to the li,ght , lefl his deed; j hould he reproved . Ver. 2 I. Hut he that doth the f,. uth , CQ1?lrth t1 t'h: light, that bh deedJ r.•ta_y be tl!ad.: manifejl, thnt they · B b , . are \
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