}320 CHRIST'S larm and fán&ified in Jefus Chrilt ; how few are fo ; how hard a thing it is to awaken mens hearts; nay, the world and the cares of this life, carry their minds quite and cleane away ; how farce any almoft lerroufly confider their latter end? don't we fee how the Devitt tempts, how the Fle fh and the World reigne in moft,and how iitde Religion we have up and down ? The Saints fcarce, the wicked many ; times very bad, the fhortneffe of life, the irrecoverable eftate after death ? The immortality of the foule, the paines of hell, and the joyes of heaven, and how that without holinefi'e no man (hall fee God, how fnould we beflirre our felves to beat there truths into meas minds, that they may bethinke themfelves and flee from the wrath to come? The cold Preaching of filch weighty things cleane cozens the world, f> that they hardly conceive any great matter in the bufn ffe ; live and dye, and penih for ever in their hirmes, and we give them fach faint warn- ings, that no wonder fo few do take any warning ; we found the Trumpet too too low, that fcarce any alrncli prepare them - felves ; we conic, into the Pulpit, but we doe little or no thing there, may be we preach good Do &rtne, but we doe not prefle it to the quick, that the Confcience may feele; we doe not bleed for our peoples fecurity, and though they do not heare, how little does our foul weep in ferret or melt in pub - hke? Pnceiccrus that admirable lively Preacher, was wont to fay, That a Minder fnould preach ffebiliter , ófecretorie anxie, humaliter, ex peEtere cum gemítu ; that is, a Minificr fheuld preach mournfully over (copies foules, bet echingly, anxioufly, humbly, heartily, gróningly; as it is raid of our Saviour Chrift, he groned for the peoples unbcliefe ; now when our Minifiry rs deadifh, as though we cared not much whether people doe our do &rive or no, whether they be dam- ned or no ; this is a lamentable thing. The p ^ore foules of orr heaters may fay to us, as the dilciplec of. Chaff laid to Chrift. and more jufily, they laid it unjnfily to him, Alaffer caret: thou not that we perijhh ? Mark 4.38. he was aflrep,ani they awakened him , Maf er carrl throe not that we meth ? more
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