Mr. Brook 's Faravei Sermom.. Cbriftians. But more of that', by and by, LoJe upon all the things of this worldAsyou will upon them, when you come to dye. At what a poor rate do men look on the things of thisworld when they come to dye ? What a low value do men fet upon the pomp and glory of it, when there is but a fiep between them and eternity ? Men now, may put a mask upon them, but then they will appear in their own colours. Men would not venture the Joffe of fuch great things for them, did they but look on them now, as they will do at the fall day. 3C Leg. 16. Never put of your Confcimces with any plea, or with any argument,that you darenotfland by in the great day ofyour account. Its dreadful to confider, how many in thefe daies puts offtheir Confci- ences, Wedid this, and that, for our Families, they would have elfeperifhed. I have complyed thus, and wronged my Confcience thus, for this and that concernment : will a man {land by this argu- ment, whenhe comes beforeJefus Chrift at the (aft day? Becaufe of the fouls of men, many plead this, or that : Chrift doth not Bland in needof indireft waies to fave fouls, he bath waies enough to bring in fouls to himfeif. Leg.17. Eye more, mind more and lay to heart more, the Spi- ritual and Internal workings of =i ed in your fouls, then the exter- Providence: of God in the world, Beloved , GOD looks that we fhould confider the operations of his hand, and the defpifing the worksof his bands is fo provoking to himothat he threatens them to lead them into Captivity for not confidering of them. But above all, look to the work that God is carrying on inyour fouls : not a foul, but he is carrying on fome workor other in it, either blinding or ellightning, bettering or worflning ; and therefore look towhat God is doing in thy foul. Al! the motions of God withinyou , are Reps toeternity, and every foul (hall be Neil or curft, faved or loft to all eternity, not according to outward difpenfations, but accord- ing to the inward operations of God in your fouls. Obferve,what humbling work, reforming work, fans ifying work he is about in thy fpirit, what he is doing in that little world within. If God fhould carry on never fo glorious a work in the world, as a conqueft of Nations to Chrift, What would it advantage thee, if fin, Sathan, and
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