Air:Seermah's FaYe*el Sermon, "Aug.- 7 341 Secondly, My second an Couniei unto you is this, That you would live, as you would die, live to c:ay as if you mid die to morrow : Let me askyou, would you be content to die in the Rate you are in ? if. my foul cloth not delire to be in a better itaie when I come to die, than now I am in , Imay very well lit down latisfied ; if not then farely it greatly concerns me to look after a better; would any man be content to die a Drunkard , I ask you that are :Drunkards, I do believe you will anfwer no; why then do you live in Drunkenneffe ? How know you that God will fpare you when you are clunk, until you are fober again ? wemay read of many that have died in their drunken fits , God cloth not a lwayes fend his.He- rauld to warn thee, before he fends his Searjeant to. Arrett tree; how .knoweft thou but Deathmay ftrike thee on a Inclden? what will then become of thy Soul ? O Beloved,I befeech yoU live not in that you are unwilling to die ;xi: Balaamwas not filch a. wretch , but he .couAcry out, Good Lord, let me die the death of the Rightem. Thirily, Lay up for fuffering times; there is few of you I believe :we fo badhusbands, but will lay up for a rainy day. I mean aga'nft a time of fickneffe comes , wherein you will be unable to work ; are you thus careful to maintainyour bodies ? and will you be care- leffe of your fouls ? 0). be care.ul toprovide for fformy weather you have winter oarments for your bodies to preferve them from cold oh let patience he your wintergarment to preferve and keep your felves warm in afflictions ; I know that he that will live god-. ly in Chrift Jefus, (hall fuller perfecution, and that through tri tion and fufferings we mutt enter into -the Kingdom of Heaven.; fhall I not thenprovide for them ? but you may fay, what, cloth per- fecution attend all the godly? a man may efcape them as well as fuffe: them ? put cafe afflidion.fhould not come, thou wilt be never the worfe for being provided for them, for he that is fit to die is :fit to live; and that man that is fit to fuffer affliaions is fit to live without them ; It was Pamir exhortation to the Ephelians 6. i o. Finally my Brethren, put on the whole armour of God, that ye may ,be able to 144. Aland the wiles of the Devil : And it is wifdcme in .a man, to provi -e for a mifery before it comes ; there is ment'on made of a Nazion(c!-e Spartans I think) that ufeth to chafe their King as we do our Lord Mayor every year, and whilft they are in their annul Government, they live in all abundance of ftate, have all the fulnelle their hearts can will ; but whentheir year is over; all their pomp and glory is over too; and they banitht into' foricr:t obi-cure remote place for ever. Where theyfpend the remainder of their lives in great want and ir& 'feryi- One p:3 (knowing this) being cafe; to rule ,over that Nazi- Aa a z on
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