384 Motiues to pertracde vs to hitflea our repentance. pilgrimage, to the flower andgraffe of the field, to thewind, a cloud, finoke, vapour, to a dreame, a tale told, a (panne, fhadow, and the paffage ofÿweauers II:urtle, yea it is called van itie it fclfe. And therefore Peeing our flues are fo fhort, fiirely theyare al too little though theywere w holly (pent in Gods feruice; but feting weehaue (pent a great part ofthis fhort time,cuen our whole life before our conuerfion,after the lufls ofthe Gentiles, let vs thirike that enough,yea farre toomuch to bee fo ill bellowed, andfrom hencefor.rard let vs liue(asmach time as remaineth in e,2,)not after the lull; ofinen but after the iril1of ad., as the Apoíile admonifheth vs, I .Pet.4.z.3. But thoughour life were fhort,yet ifthis fhort time were certain there were Tome more Phew ofreafon why we fhould deferour conuerfion;butas it is fhort, fo is it molt vncertaine, for wee haue not afhurance that wee (hall liue one houre, wee are tenants at will in thefe earthly taberna- cles, neither doe wee know how Toone our great Landlord will turne vs out ofthem; we are the Lords (lewards here on earth,and we knownot hov;' Toone our Lord and mailer will call vs to a reckoning,and therefore it behouech vs,to haue our accounts alwaies perfeeó, and the booker ofour confciences made vp in readineffe. We are vncertainewhen deathwill arrefl vs andcarrievs to iudgement,and therefore we fhouldbe prepared for it at all times; whenwe go tobed we are fo to layvs downe as though wewereneuer to rife till we rife to receiueour fall fcntence; when.we rife vp in the morningwee-are fo to fpend that, dayas though itwere the Taft ofour flues, for howmanic hauegone well to bedwho haue been deadbefore the morning,?howmanie haue rifen (as they thought in perfe& health) and yet haue been at- tached by death before the euening? and therefore it be- hooueth euerieone who hath any regardof the eternall station ofhis fouie to turne fpeedily vntoGod, and while to day they heare his, voice not to harden their hearts. Men vfùallie delaicmattcrs of leafi waight and in the firfi place difratchbufirnçffeofgreatef}iniportance, and therefore vn- leffe we thinke the.perferuing ofour bodies and foules from theeternal} torments of hell fire, and the affuranceofeuer-- :lafling
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