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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 4: Now is the time. OR, Instructions for the present improving the season of Grace. Serm. IV.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. How great is the woe of those, whose Day is done, and yet their work is not done, but still to do? You have seen their end upon Earth; but you have not heard their cries, and their self-bewailings in hell. How many have ⟨p. 101⟩been cut off before your eyes, who ceased to be, before they began to live? Improve examples lest you become examples. Your Schooling is cheap, when it is at the cost of another. Let the lashes of Divine severity that have fallen upon others, quicken thee in thy Spiritual pace and travelling towards Heaven. Why should God stay for you rather than for them? Thou canst not misspend thy time at so cheap a rate as they did, by whom God hath warned thee. Hell is not so full of Souls, as it is of delayed purposes. What would not lost Souls give for a crumb of that time of which now in this world they make Orts? If the foresight of their tears for neglecting the Day of grace fetched tears from Christ, Luk. 19.41.42. How great shall the feeling be of the Eternal effects of their inexcusable folly? How Exuberant, but unfruitful, shall be the flood of their own tears for their former slothfulness, never enough to be bewailed, because never at all to be repaired? Surely a small loss could not draw tears from so great a Person, as the Son of God.
2. How great is the wo of those, whose Day is done, and yet their work is not done, but still to do? You have seen their end upon Earth; but you have not heard their cries, and their self-bewailings in hell. How many have ⟨p. 101⟩been cut off before your eyes, who ceased to be, before they began to live? Improve examples lest you become examples. Your Schooling is cheap, when it is at the cost of another. Let the lashes of Divine severity that have fallen upon others, quicken thee in thy Spiritual pace and travelling towards Heaven. Why should God stay for you rather than for them? Thou canst not mispend thy time at so cheap a rate as they did, by whom God hath warned thee. Hell is not so full of Souls, as it is of delayed purposes. What would not lost Souls give for a crum of that time of which now in this world they make Orts? If the foresight of their tears for neglecting the Day of grace fetched tears from Christ,