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

7. The Consideration of Eternal Judgment should be a powerful Incentive to prepare our selves for it. The Affair is infinitely serious, for it concerns our Salvation or Damnation for ever. Yet the Pleasures and Business of the World fasten Men in Security, and hinder the entire application of their Minds to prepare for their last Account. 'Tis an awful Caution of our Saviour to his Disciples, Take heed lest at any time your Hearts be overcharged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness, and Cares of this Life, and so that Day come upon you unawares: For as a Snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the Earth. A dissolute voluptuous course of Life, is joined with a brutish neglect of God and the Soul: and the indulging the carnal Appetite, though not in such enormous Excesses as the Profane are guilty of, alienates ⟨p. 238⟩the Minds of Men from due considering their Spiritual State, and lessens the preventive Fear that makes us serious and diligent to be found of God in Peace. And others are so involved in secular Business, that they are not at leisure, to regard the one Thing necessary: their Minds are so overshaded with the Cares of the present World, they cannot take a right Aspect of the World to come. The Flood broke in upon the old World, whilst they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, buying and selling, and destroyed them all: The last Fire will devour this World in the same wretched incogitancy, and stupid neglect to prepare themselves for Judgment. As it was in the Days of Noah, so shall it be in the Days of the Son of Man. 'Tis a divine and solemn Warning, Behold, I come as a Thief in the Night, blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his Garments, lest he be found naked, without the Robe of Holiness, and be exposed to confounding shame in that Day. When secure and careless Sinners shall say, Peace and Safety, sudden destruction will come upon them, as Travel upon a Woman with Child; as surprisingly, as irresistibly, ⟨p. 239⟩and they shall not escape.

7. The Consideration of Eternal Judgment should be a powerful Incentive to prepare our selves for it. The Affair is infinitely serious, for it concerns our Salvation or Damnation for ever. Yet the Pleasures and Business of the World fasten Men in Security, and hinder the intire application of their Minds to prepare for their last Account. 'Tis an awful Caution of our Saviour to his Disciples, Take heed lest at any time your Hearts be overcharged with Surfeiting and Drunkenness, and Cares of this Life, and so that Day come upon you unawares: For as a Snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the Earth. A dissolute voluptuous course of Life, is join'd with a brutish neglect of God and the Soul: and the indulging the carnal Appetite, though not in such enormous Excesses as the Prophane are guilty of, alienates