.. ' the tafte-0f thernperifheth, as the fiveetneffe of meat in the eating; but (faith our-Saviour)[eefe thoft things -thttt wilt ttbide fot .ever :.;yG>u -thave. an everlail:ing lifeto liv~, therefqre YC>.U muft ma~e fome .provilionanfwerable thereunto: As for·tne . body, the foule wcares it but as a garment, and when it is worne our, the fo.ule mull have a new fuit-ofappareU one day. , · 1 ., . ; .._ _ -- · WelJ, feeing G.odbath brought this point to our hands this day, -let me but prevaile with yoLt lfo far-re, as to fet·fometime apart the following I wee~e, whenyou mayenter into a ferious confi1 derationofeternitie, thevery thinkingofit, wiH beofgreat moment t6 you; for looke what the ·objea is, fuch _is the foule,about which it is con:. · verfant;highobjed:s lift up the fouie tO theLord, and make the mind anfwerab,le to them) and low . ·obje6t.smakethe mind like to them. ·Now eter– nity is an high objeCt, and i.c will worke in men high mindesj and hence it is, for the want ofthis con!ideration,thatwhen aman,cornes,to die,and– fees eternity beforehim,hawd-ot-hit-then amaze the foule ofman ? I have feene it byexperience : I knew one who fa id, If it were hut for & thoufand 1 yeere1, I cot~ld heare it, hut feeing it is to eternitit, \thit amazeth mee. :6ehold, if you would conft... l der that after-many thoufands of yeeres are paft, yet you are to begin as at the firtl ; if men did confider this ferioufly, _would they let theireter.. \nail eftat:e depend fo upon incertainties? And let ·~themconfider this, that-areye_ t fl:rangers to the · lifeofGod,that ifdeath fhould come,they fhould \ , M 3 not , I
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