234 T'hat ·there are· but. We know little the extent of the univerre, <Or what proportion't~·e wicked or n1iferable part of rational beings cloth ca.rry to thofe - that are~happy-and good: but this we know, that God \vas infinitely happy before he had 1nade al}y creature; / that he needeth · not the fociety of the holy angels, and ·will never adn1it that of wicked and irreligious· n1en. But, that I may hafie towardsa clofe. . The doctrine we have been infifi:ing on isfad ana1an1entable ; but theconfideration of it n1ay be very ufeful. It 1nufl: needs touch any ferious perfon w,ith a great deal ()f grief and trouble to behold a multitude of people conveened togeth~r, and to think, that, before thirty or forty years, a little - more, or a great deal iefs, they fhall all go ·down unto the .dark and filent grave, and· the greater, the far greater part of their . -fouls ihaH be damned .unto en-dlefs and un– fpeakable torments. B,ut this may fl:ir us · ~P unto -the· greateft diligence and care, that we may do _what we can t9wards the prevention of it. Were the fenfe of this d0eply engraven on all our n1inds, with what tare and diligence, with what feriouf- · nefs -and ~eal w-ould Minifters deal with . the people con101itted to their charge, t~at ' by .anymeans they might fave fon1e? How · · · · would
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=