¡6 SEBMVIOÑS up ©P Sertn,5, 6. God will have his Glory upon you, if not from you, for he is r'tfolved not to be a lofer by the Creature. Prov. 16.4. The Lard bath made all things for himfelf, yea even the Wicked for the day of Evil.* Levit. co. 3. This is that which the Lord faith, I will be fanc7ified in them that come nigh nie, and before all the People I Will be glorified. 'He will have the Glory of his Juutice in the day of Wrath and Evil, if not the Glory of his Grace in the day of his Patience and Mercy. Therefore either he will be glorified by you, or upon you. Some give him Glory in an Active, fame in a paffive way. If he have not the Glory of his Command, which is our Duty, he will have the Glory . of his Providence in the Event. And how fad that will be, judg ye, when you ferve for no other ufe, but to let forth the glory of his vindictive Jufice ! 7. It mutt be out lain End, which mutt fix Mens Mind, which otherwife will be tolled up and down with perpetual uncertainty, and diutra&ed by a multiplicity of Ends and Obje&s, that it cannot continue in any compofed and fetled Frame. Pfalm 86. r t. Unite my Heart tó fear thy Name. James 1.8. l double- minded Man is ha- fable in all his ways. A divided Mind caufes an uncertain Life, no one part of our Lives will agree with another, the whole not being firmly knit by the Power of fome laut End running through all. III. That when we come to die, this will be our Comfort. Chrift hath left us a Pat- tern here, And Hezekiah, Ifa. 38.3. Remember now, 0 Lord, how I have walked be- fore thee in Truth, and with a perfect Heart, and have done that which is good in thy fight. Oh the comfort of a well -(pent Life to a dying Chri(tian ! 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8, I have fought a good Fight, I have finifhed my Courte, I have kept the Faith. Henceforth there a laid up for me a Crown of Righteoufnefs, which the Lord, the Righteous Judg, (hall give me at that Day, and not to me only, but to all them alto that pall love his appearing. Then a Man can run over his Life with comfort, when he hath been careful for the Matter and End to glorify God. Z1fe. Oh then confider two things. . 1. The End why you were lent nto the World : Why do I live here ? moil Men live like Bealts, Eat, Drink, Sleep, and Die ; never fu down, and in good earned confider, Why was I born ? Why did I come into theWorld ? and fo their Lives are but a weer Lottery, the Fancies they are govern'd by, are jumbled together by Chance; if they light of a good Hit, it is a cafual thing, they live at peradventure, and then no wonder they walk at Random. 2. What we thall do when our Lives are at an end, and we are to appear before God's Tribunal. Oh that you would confider this, now you are in your Health and Strength ! Dent. 32. 29. Oh that they were wife, that they underflood this, that 'they would confider their latter End ! Much of Wifdom lieth in confidering the End of Things. We are ha(lening apace into the other World, it is good to confider what we have to fay when we come to die; Job 3r. 14. What (Ball I then do, when God rifith up ? And when be viftteth, what (hall I anfwer him ? viz. At the latter End, when I am im- mediately to appear before God, when he fummons us by Sicknefs into his Prefence, and the Devil is more bufy at fuch a time to tempt and trouble us, and all other Com- forts fail, and are as unfavory as the white of an Egg, then this will notably embolden our Hearts : 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our rejoicing is this, the Teflimony of our Confcience, that in fmplicity, and godly fncerity, not Witt flefbly Wifdom, but by the Grace of God, we have had our Converfation in the World. Oh will this comfort you, that you have fported and gamed away your precious Time, that you have fared of the Belt, lived in Pomp and Honour ? Oh no, but this, I have made Confcience of honouring and glorifying God ; of being faithful in my Place, in promoting the Common Good there, .where God bath call -my Lot. Oh then, go on, your ComfOrt will increafe. If hitherto you have been pleating the Fle(b, idling and wantoning away your precious time, fay, 1 Pet. 4. 3. For the time pat of our Life may fufftce us, to have wrought the Will of the Gentiles, when we walked in Lafcivioufnefs, TO, Excels of Wine, Revellings, Banquet - tings, and abominable Idolatries. You have too long walked contrary to the end of your Creation, in,di(bonouring God, and deftroying your own Souls. S E R M:
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