Wait] It's fit for us to wait. Yea, but we have waited 1a long time. Well, but yet know that you are at the right door: Suppose a man be knocking at a door, and he hath knocked a great while and no body comes, he begins to think it's not the the right door, but some body 2tells him that it is the right door, and then he stays: so we may assure our heares thus much, we are at the right door certainly, and let us not think to go away, and we shall find somebody within, God will appear at length, What, shall we lose all for want of waiting a little while longer? Thus it is with many wretched Apostates, that 3have taken a great deal of pains in seeking after God a great while, and for want of waiting a little longer they have lost all: Oh! let there be this resolution in your hearts, If I die and perish, yet I'll die and perish waiting upon God. Certainly that soul that hath this resolution will never come to despair, yea, there's no such way for the hastening of Mercy, as for a soul to lie flat at the feet of God, let God do what he will with me, if I perish, I'll perish waiting upon him, though he kills me, I'll trust in him, and stay upon him: You have waited, how long I pray? Oh! you have been waiting and seeking of God it may be this half year, or twelve months, What's that I pray? O thou wretched soul! thou hast deserved eternal flames, and wilt thou grudge at God for waiting a few years? If God would keep thee waiting *all thy days, and at the last manifest Himself unto thee, thou hadst cause to bless God for ever, and therefore do not grudge though thou hast been waiting a while, and it may be though ⟨p. 308⟩Thy time is come, yet Gods time is not come, the time that you call long, God doth not call it so; One day with God is as a thousand years, it's no time with God, and therefore do not complain of the length of thy time.
Wait] It's fit for us to wait. Yea, but we have waited 1a long time. Well, but yet know that you are at the right door: Suppose a man be knocking at a door, and he hath knockt a great while and no body comes, he begins to think it's not the the right door, but some body 2tells him that it is the right door, and then he staies: so we may assure our heares thus much, we are at the right door certainly, and let us not think to go away, and we shall find somebody within, God wil appear at length, What, shal we lose all for want of waiting a little while longer? Thus it is with many wretched Apostats, that 3have taken a great deal of pains in seeking after God a great while, and for want of waiting a little longer they have lost all: Oh! let there be this resolution in your hearts, If I die and perish, yet I'le die and perish waiting upon God. Certainly that soul that hath this resolution will never come to dispair, yea, there's no such way for the hastening of Mercy, as for a soul to lie flat at the feet of God, let God do what he will with me, if I perish, I'le perish waiting upon him, though he kills me, I'le trust in him, and stay upon him: You have waited, how long I pray? Oh! you have been waiting and seeking of God it may be this half year, or twelve months, What's that I pray? O thou wretched soul! thou hast deserved eternal flames, and wilt thou grudg at God for waiting a few years? If God would keep thee waiting *all thy daies, and at the last manifest Himself unto thee, thou hadst cause to bless God for ever, and therfore do not grudge though thou hast been waiting a while, and it may be though ⟨p. 308⟩Thy time is come, yet Gods time is not come, the time that you call long, God doth not call it so; One day with God is as a thousand years, it's no time with God, and therefore do not complain of the length of thy time.
- 1Expos.
- 2Simile.
- 3The folly of Apostates.The folly of Apostats.
- *As he hath done divers
