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

There is a request that I have to every one of you, and I will put it as fair, and easy, and low as may be, because I would not have it denied; that is, That every one that God by his providence hath brought this day here into this Assembly, would resolve in their own thoughts, and covenant with God, to spend but one half quarter of an hour in meditating of eternity every day; there is no such great difficulty in it, to have such thoughts as these renewed every day: This body of mine, though frail and mortal, it must live for ever, and this soul of mine, it must live eternally; I have spent a great deal of time in seeking after contentment to my flesh for the present, but, O Lord, what have I done to provide for eternity? The renewing of this daily, and settling of this daily upon the heart, what might it do? It cannot be imagined what it might do: Precious are the thoughts of eternity, so precious, that there is many a soul, that would not for a thousand worlds, but have had those thoughts to be settled upon them; so precious, as many souls are now in Heaven, magnifying ⟨p. 336⟩and blessing of God, that they had such serious thoughts of eternity, before they left this world.

There is a request that I have to every one of you, and I will put it as fair, and easie, and low as may be, because I would not have it denyed; that is, That every one that God by his providence hath brought this day here into this Assembly, would resolve in their own thoughts, and covenant with God, to spend but one half quarter of an hour in meditating of eternity every day; there is no such great difficulty in it, to have such thoughts as these renewed every day: This body of mine, though frail and mortal, it must live for ever, and this soul of mine, it must live eternally; I have spent a great deal of time in seeking after contentment to my flesh for the present, but, O Lord, what have I done to provide for eternity? The renewing of this daily, and setling of this daily upon the heart, what might it do? It cannot be imagined what it might do: Precious are the thoughts of eternity, so precious, that there is many a soul, that would not for a thousand worlds, but have had those thoughts to be setled upon them; so precious, as many souls are now in Heaven, magnifying ⟨p. 336⟩and blessing of God, that they had such serious thoughts of eternity, before they left this world.