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…

2. Secondly, there must very shortly be an everlasting separation between the Christian and profane men: at the farthest, they must part upon their death-beds, and never see one another again unto the day of Judgement: and then they must shake hands for world without end. For there is set betwixt them, by Gods immutable and irrevocable Decree, a vast and immeasurable gulf, which stands as fast and unremovable, as God Almighty in his Throne of Majesty; so that they can never possibly meet. Between us ¹and you, saith Abraham to the rich man in hell, there is a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from hence to you, cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. If it be so then, that after an inch of time, there must be betwixt them an endless divorce, and an unpassable distance through all eternity; it is best for the Christian to begin this separation and disacquaintance in time, and not to repose his special love, the sweetest and noblest of all his affections, upon an object where it must not eternally rest, nor intimately converse with him, whose company he shall not have hereafter in heaven everlastingly. Let him ever only afford the dearest pangs of his kindest affection unto Gods Children, and convey the sweetest meltings of his ⟨p. 80⟩heart, and the most passionate embracements of his soul into their bosoms alone: for he shall be sure to meet them in heaven, and there the lesser streams of their former Christian love shall grow into a mighty torrent, and falling into the great and universal confluence of the united zeals and Seraphical fervours of all the Saints and Angels, run with a sweet and everlasting current, into the bottomless and boundless Sea of all love and lovely excellencies, God himself, blessed for ever.

2. Secondly, there must very shortly bee an euerlasting separation betweene the Christian and prophane men: at the farthest, they must part vpon their death-beds, and neuer see one another againe vnto the day of Iudgement: and then they must shake hands for world without end. For there is set betwixt them, by Gods immutable and irreuocable Decree, a vast and immeasurable gulfe, which stands as fast and vnremooueable, as God Almightie in his Throne of Maiestie; so that they can neuer possibly meete. Betweene vs ¹