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

In short, what-ever is Temporal, extend the continuance of it to the utmost possibility of Conception, is infinitely short of Eternity. A Day, an Hour, a Minute, has some proportion with a thousand Years; for that duration is determined by a certain number of Days, and Hours, and Minutes: but Millions of Ages have no proportion to Eternity, because 'tis an indeterminable Duration. The Mind is soon tired and lost in searching after Numbers to represent it: 'tis confounded and struck with amazing Horror, and can only direct the Eye upward or downward to the two Habitations of Eternity, the glorious and the miserable, Heaven and Hell. Now let us compare the Things of the present World with those of the future State. The first are measured by flying Time, the other remain in an unmoveable Eternity. The Comforts that spring from the Earth, suddenly wither and ⟨p. 466⟩fall to it: the Tree of Life flourishes only above. Frequent changes from Prosperity to Adversity are the Properties of this mortal State. As those who are in Voyages at Sea, sometimes are in a calm, and presently suffer a storm, and are forced to alter their Course by the changing of the Winds; so 'tis with us in our passage here. But upon the first entrance into another World, all the variations of this are at an end. Verily every Man at his best estate is altogether Vanity. Surely every Man walks in a vain show, surely they are disquieted in vain. The visible Felicity of Man is of no continuance. We may frequently observe in the Evening, a Cloud by the reflection of the Sun invested with so bright a Lustre, and adorned with such a pleasant variety of Colours, that in the judgment of our Eyes, if an Angel were to assume a Body correspondent to his Glory, it were a fit matter for it. But in walking a few steps, the Sun is descended beneath the Horizon, and the Light withdrawn, and of all that splendid flaming appearance, nothing remains but a dark Vapour, that falls down in a Shower. Thus vanishing is the show of Felicity here. In this, Sense assists Faith; for the experience of every ⟨p. 467⟩day verifies what the Scripture declares, that the Fashion of this World passes away. And therefore the guilty Folly of Men is aggravated, to set their Eyes and Hearts upon that which is not.

In short, what-ever is Temporal, extend the continuance of it to the utmost possibility of Conception, is infinitely short of Eternity. A Day, an Hour, a Minute, has some proportion with a thousand Years; for that duration is determined by a certain number of Days, and Hours, and Minutes: but Millions of Ages have no proportion to Eternity, because 'tis an indeterminable Duration. The Mind is soon tir'd and lost in searching after Numbers to represent it: 'tis confounded and struck with amazing Horror, and can only direct the Eye upward or downward to the two Habitations of Eternity, the glorious and the miserable, Heaven and Hell. Now let us compare the Things of the present World with those of the future State. The first are measur'd by flying Time, the other remain in an unmoveable Eternity. The Comforts that spring from the Earth, suddenly wither and