The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

The immediate Recompenses of Eternal Judgment, Heaven and Hell, are worthy of our most attentive and applicative Thoughts, that we obtain the one, and escape the other. Heaven is the true Happiness of the reasonable Creature, and is the first and last in the order of things desirable; the first for its attractive Excellence, the last in its consummate Fruition. This may be certainly and perpetually enjoyed by all who sincerely and diligently seek it. If in the very different States of Life here, there were any uncapable of Eternal Life, or that have another ⟨image 5⟩Object for their last End, there might be some reason why they should be coldly affected towards Celestial Happiness, and to justify their sole pretensions to the Things of Time, wherein their Interests are confined: but the offer of Heaven regards all that upon God's Terms will accept of it. The most sensible inequality, that Riches, Dignity, or any temporal Accident makes between Men here, is so true a Nothing in comparison of Eternal Glory, that it makes no difference of one from another as to the obtaining it. For this Reason it most nearly concerns every Person, First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Righteousness thereof, as the only way to ascend to it.

The immediate Recompences of Eternal Judgment, Heaven and Hell, are worthy of our most attentive and applicative Thoughts, that we obtain the one, and escape the other. Heaven is the true Happiness of the reasonable Creature, and is the first and last in the order of things desireable; the first for its attractive Excellence, the last in its consummate Fruition. This may be certainly and perpetually enjoyed by all who sincerely and diligently seek it. If in the very different States of Life here, there were any uncapable of Eternal Life, or that have another ⟨image 5⟩Object for their last End, there might be some reason why they should be coldly affected towards Celestial Happiness, and to justify their sole pretentions to the Things of Time, wherein their Interests are confin'd: but the offer of Heaven regards all that upon God's Terms will accept of it. The most sensible inequality, that Riches, Dignity, or any temporal Accident makes between Men here, is so true a Nothing in comparison of Eternal Glory, that it makes no difference of one from another as to the obtaining it. For this Reason it most nearly concerns every Person, First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Righteousness thereof, as the only way to ascend to it.