Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

from which all the Gold and Pearl of East & West can no more deliver him, then can an handful of dust; I say, then shall be poured upon his head, that terrible shower of snares, fire and ¹brimstone, and an horrible tempest. His soul sinks immediately in a moment into the depth of remediless misery, and is desperately plunged for ever into the bottom of the burning Lake. His body descends into the grave, as into a dungeon of rottenness & horror, arrested, as it were, by the second death, in the devils name, and at length haled and dragged unto the terror of that great and last Day; where no creature can rescue him, no mountain cover him, from that unquenchable wrath, & never-dying Worm, which shall ever lastingly, day and night feed upon his soul and flesh. Whereas now, on the other side, that poor neglected One, who hath in truth given his name unto ⟨image 4⟩Christ and his gainful service, perhaps by the World most disdainfully and contemptuously trampled upon even into the dust, with the feet of cruelty and pride; at least most certainly, ever made extremely vile, and contemptible by the villainy of ^ftongues, and ^gcruel mockings; yet is such an One as the World is not worthy of: in the mean time, in the meaning of the holy Ghost, ^ha Crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, as beautiful and amiable, as the blood of Christ and his righteous robe can make him; crowned full gloriously with ⁱGods own comeliness which he hath put upon him; designed from all eternity in due time, (for so his sanctification now assures him) to wear an everlasting Crown of bliss. And when his pilgrimage is past, death is to him the day-break of eternal brightness. Upon his last Bed, his blessed soul shall find that fresh-bleeding Fountain for sin and for uncleanness set wide open unto it, by the hand of Faith, ready now at its departure, to raze out the last sinful stain: It may confidently, in the Name of Christ cast it self into the open arms, enlarged bowels, and dearest embracements of the Father of all mercies: It may feel the glorious presence of the sweetest Comforter, presenting unto it a foretaste of Heavenly joys: It shall have the last sweetness, and triumphant truth of all the promises of life, able to confront and confound the utmost rage, and very Powder-plot of all the powers of darkness, made good unto it: