CHAP.26 d3 t...! Comma;tarievpon the 490 timeofthis appearing : Lin regard of the vncertaiutieofit,Reu. t 6. r S Ignoraturvnus Beholdl comeatatheefe in the night, 61effed ishe that watcheth : for if the dies°tool what houc keeper knew at hourethe theife would come, would he not uncutmulti. P , watch ; but we knowe nohoure, that wemight watcheuery houre. 2. In regard ofthe ueareneffeofit:the Apofiles time was the ]aft houre, and ours then cannot but be thelaft minute: a fearefull thing,and full ofdan- ger it is, toconcciuc that the mailer will define his comming,or that the Lord is flow, as men count flackeneffe ; or that the law is but a fcarcrow becaufe fellons areput is prifon, and bound ouer to the afiîxes, and not prefently executed. This day maybe nearer in it felfe, at leaf+ to thy (elfe licb,ta v, then thou thinkefi for ; andyet a very littlewhile, andhe thatJim IIcome wiÏi come, andwillnot tarrie. Let vs apply our hearts hereunto a little. Eueric man when he leech euery thing growworfe and worfe can fay, furely the world draweth oeare an end: and much more may we, who bane our reti- res exercifed in the word, when we fee Satan fo buffe and furring in the plotting, contriuing, and executing mifcheife again't theChurch; may we not conclude, that furely his time is eerie (boil? when we fee parti- cular iudgements vpon our countrie, lingring and durable plagues, threatnings of whole kingdomes and countries; with vifible iudgments vpon particular petCons; why doe we not conclude, that furely chefe are forerunners ofthe generall,and that it is not (arre off. Ifwe fee the fun andmoone,and great lights in theChurch fàl from heauen,and be dark- ned ; ifthe ltarres, the profeffors of the Gofpel, look their thine and fall from their 6rft loue; why doe we not thinke that fhortly the heauens themfelues (hall fhriule away like a fcrowle, and be no more?Peeing the Scriptures afirme that immediately after fuck things this appearing (ha] be. In a word, when we fee fuch general! fecuritie, that all men cry, peace, peace, vnto themfelues : if we (hall perceiue Noahs daies retur- ned againe, in whichmen fate, and drinke, build , andplant, marrie and glue in marriage, and thinke nothing, either nothing elfe, or nothingmore; how is it that we cannot conceiueofthis appearing, which (hall be as a flood and deftruaion to all that thinke not of it? for as a friar: (hall k come vpon all the vngodlyof the earth. III Vfe. 3. Seeing the do6lrine of the Gofpel not onely bringeth the uideuce of faluation, but lifteth vp theheart to wait for it, it appearech chat it is the doelrineof God, brought by the Sonne ofGod from the bofomeof his Father; the dothine that raifeth the minde to heauen mufi needs be heauenly : and this is the doétrine which we preach, be- caufe it is fruitful! herein. Some burl; themfelues in prying more into the men,and their callings that bring it, then into the 4,o6irine it felfe, and refufe this mot} bleffed treafure,becaufe they fee not the holyGhofi fo
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