Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners

THE second Direction. Labour diligently to have a sound understanding of the nature of the Laws and Judgement of God. On what terms it is that he dealeth with mankind: and on what terms he will Judge them to Life or Death: and what the Reward and punishment is. For if you know not the Law by which you must be Judged, you cannot know how to prepare for the Judgement. Study the Scripture ⟨p. 312⟩therefore, and mark who they be that God promiseth to save, and who they be that he threateneth to Condemn. For according to that Word will the Judgement pass.

THE second Direction. Labour diligently to have a sound understanding of the nature of the Laws and Judgement of God. On what terms it is that he dealeth with mankinde: and on what terms he will Judge them to Life or Death: and what the Reward and punishment is. For if you know not the Law by which you must be Judged, you cannot know how to prepare for the Judgement. Study the Scripture ⟨p. 312⟩therefore, and mark who they be that God promiseth to save, and who they be that he threatneth to Condemn. For according to that Word will the Judgement pass.

THE third Direction. See that you take it as the very business of your Lives, to make ready for that day. Understand that you have no other business in this world, but what doth necessarily depend on this. What else have you to do, but to provide for everlasting? and to use means to sustain your own bodies and others of purpose for his work, till it be happily done • Live therefore as men that make this the main scope and care of their Lives; and let all things else come in but on the by. Remember every morning when you awake, that you must spend that day in preparation for your Account, and that God doth give it you for that end. When you go to bed, examine your hearts, what you have done that day in preparation for your last Day: And take that time as lost which doth nothing to this end.