A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

What confident expressions, if ever God did recover thee again, if ever thou wert delivered again, all the world should see thy repentance and Reformation? These things thou shouldest remember, and shame thy self, yea be confounded and never able to open thy mouth to excuse thy self.

What confident expressions, if ever God did recover thee again, if ever thou wert delivered again, all the world should see thy repentance and Reformation? These things thou shouldest remember, and shame thy selfe, yea be confounded and never able to open thy mouth to excuse thy self.

Fourthly,¹ The Scripture doth propound to our memory, as a special object, never to slip out of it, The consideration of our later end, the day of death, the day of Judgement, these things are to be constantly in our memory. The neglect of this is made by the Prophet Jeremiah a bitter instance in his Lamentations concerning the people of Israel, Lam. 1. 9. She remembered not her later end, therefore she came down wonderfully; Here the forgetting of her later end is made the cause of all those strange and wonderful judgements which come upon them: Thus Isa. 47. 7. Babylon is there arraigned for her pride and arrogancy, And she did not lay the judgements of God to heart, neither did she remember the later end of it; And how pathetically is Gods desire expressed, Deut.32. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their later end; Here you see the sum of all godliness is expressed, in considering our later end: No wonder then if men who forget their death, and the day of Judgement be violently carried on to all excess of riot; For what should stop or stay them in their paths? Whereas didst thou remember, (as Solomon adviseth his young man) That for all this thou must die, thou must be brought to judgement; This would bind him (as it were) hand and foot; Quicken then up thy memory, whatsoever thou forgettest, do not forget that thou art a mortal dying man, that the day of judgement is coming upon thee, which thou canst not avoid; The memory of this would make thee fly from every enticing sin, as Joseph did from his mistress.