Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

What if so be that now thou wert to dye, what would comfort thee? if God should put an end to thy days, and call thee to an account for thy ways, what account couldst thou give to the great and dreadful God, of thy ways and life? would thy ways be peace? It may be thou thinkest thou mayest have thy pleasure, and that which is spoken out of the word by the Ministers, thou canst avoid, and there are no such things as thou hearest; but what if those things that we deliver, concerning the evil of sin, and the danger of that way of sin, should prove true? then woe unto thee, if all thy comfort depends upon this, thou hopest these things that we preach are not true; and is not this all the support of thy comfort, which if it fail, thou art lost for ever? Certainly, if that glory of God, and that eternal estate we preach so much of be true, it is worth the venturing of the loss of greater pleasures and delights, then any thou hast in thy seeking after them: make but a supposition, What if it should be so, is it not worth the venturing? You will do so in other things, the very supposition of a great gain, or possibility of great evil, will make ⟨p. 161⟩you venture much: God does not call you to venture much, they are poor things that you are persuaded to leave, and be not too confident in your way, all that is written in the word may be true, and if it be but possible, yet be so wise as upon a supposition to venture.

What if so be that now thou wert to dye, what would comfort thee? if God should put an end to thy days, and call thee to an account for thy ways, what account couldst thou give to the great and dreadful God, of thy ways and life? would thy ways be peace? It may be thou thinkest thou mayest have thy pleasure, and that which is spoken out of the word by the Ministers, thou canst avoid, and there are no such things as thou hearest; but what if those things that we deliver, concerning the evil of sin, and the danger of that way of sin, should prove true? then wo unto thee, if all thy comfort depends upon this, thou hopest these things that we preach are not true; and is not this all the support of thy comfort, which if it fail, thou art lost for ever? Certainly, if that glory of God, and that eternal estate we preach so much of be true, it is worth the venturing of the loss of greater pleasures and delights, then any thou hast in thy seeking after them: make but a supposition, What if it should be so, is it not worth the venturing? You will do so in other things, the very supposition of a great gain, or possibility of great evil, will make