bto OfEedinai Calling, S a XIÌ. Chri[tian is compared toWaiching. AWatchman on theTower, is able to df- cern theEnemy afaroffapproaching : Now this forefight confias in two things t. Fire, To prevent after-repentings, that will be full of horror and perplexity, but wholly vain: Thus the damned in hell are brought in, calling upon the hills and mountains tocover them, that theymay avoid the wrath of the Lamb: In- fzpiextireft dicere non pnubam: Fools ufe to fay, I did not think this, I never thought the miferies andguilt of fm, the flamesof hell, the horror ofcoofelence would have been thus horrible : He then that is wife, looks Upon fin and the world, as one in hell would look on them, with amazement and aaonilhmeny endeavoring to fly from it. a. Secondly, lrorefight Lech in attending to our latter end, that the relent time quickly flieth away : Oh that mypeople were wife, faith God, that they tveulei re- member their latter end,Deut. 3249. This is heavenlywifdom, to confider, that theprefent pleafures and advantages will immediately dye : The time is coming, when thou wilt Jie languilbing on chy deaths -bed, that all friends and worldly comforts willtake their leave of thee : This confideration would be a fpecial prefervative agaìnftfin; though thethoughts of death, and making up thy ac- compc, arefor the time bitter, yet they will make for thy future good : Othen how foolifh and bruitifh are the greaceft part of men I they never confider what will becomeof them, when dying, when (landing at Gods Tribunal :Oh they think not what confufion will beon their faces, to fee themfelvescanin - to utter darknefs, when others are received, to be commanded to depart, as thofe that are curled, into everlafting fire. 3. Thirdly, Herein Bethprovident witdom, to forecafl for eternity, that we may be happy for ever: Alas! no mans happinefs conflits in enjoying the great and glorious things ofthis life; nomore then theMalefaêtor in theprtfon, thatfareth delicioufly, maybe called an happy man, when he is immediately to be called out to the place of execution : Yet who can ever perfwade the world, that there is any other witdom, then to get the good thingsofthis life? Givemu today (faith the prophane man) takethou tomorrow; give me this life, take thou eternity. O beans, rather then men 1 yetloch worms are we, and no men : The Scripture loth reprefent eternity fo dininftty, whetherof hsppinefs or mifery; thatits a wonder men mould no more meditateabout it, that they cry not out, OEternity, eternity, to be with the Lord forever, or the Devils and damned forever : Oh this for ever, what an overwhelming word is it. Tlfe of Infirattiott: Who is the true wife man? not a man of the'greateft parts, of the greaten reach and craft; but one who is made wife by God, bath the Scripture the ruleof his witdom, and performs all thofe forementioned acts. This man is more wife then Solomon in Come relpelts ; yea, ifall the learning and prudenceof all the men in theworld were put into ooemans head,yet with- out grace, be bath nor fo much knowledge and wildern as the weakeft babe in Chrin : Oh when all accomprs are call up, and there will come to be a final de- eifionof all things, then all the world will fee, who is a wife man, and who is a fool: Thou mayen lay thy ear to hell, and hearken how the damned roar out, Oh their folly, their madnefs ! they did not believe thefe things, which now bitter experience makes them feel : Now, indeed, the godly teem fools, are judged fo by the world, but whenyou lie them fee on the Thrones,ofglory, and crowns of immortalityput on their beads, them their wifdom will be publifh- ed toall the world. vfe: Slat MOat.
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