The Saints' Everlasting Rest

SECT. V.¹

1. 1§. 5.

4. And even the godly themselves deserve this Reproof, for being too lazy seekers of their everlasting Rest. Alas, what a disproportion is there betwixt our Light and our Heat? our Professions and Prosecution? who makes that haste, as if it were for heaven? How still we stand! how idly we work! how we talk, and jest, and trifle away our time! how deceitfully we do the Work of God! how we hear, as if we heard not, and pray, as if we prayed not, and confer, and examine, and meditate, and reprove sin as if we did it not, and use the Ordinances as if we used them not,¹ and enjoy Christ, as if we enjoyed him not, as if we had learned to use the things of heaven, as the Apostle teacheth us to use the world! Who would think that stood by us, and heard us pray in private or public, that we were praying for no less then everlasting glory? should heaven be sought no more earnestly then thus? Me thinks we are none of us all in good-sadness for our souls. We do but dally with the Work of God, and play with Christ, as children, we play with our meat when we should eat it, and we play with our clothes, and look upon them, when we should put them on and wear them; we hang upon Ordinances from day to day, but ^*we stir not up our selves to seek the Lord: I see a great many very constant in hearing and Praying, and give ⟨image 204⟩[…] ⟨p. 346⟩