A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

4 Use of Exhortation.

(1.) To those who are careless of it. Oh! by all means seek it. Will it at last comfort thee, to think of thy mirth and pleasures, how honourable, how rich, or how well stored with friends thou hast been? What should take up thy heart, busy thy thoughts or employ thy endeavours, but this that concerns thy eternal state? Wilt thou sin away the time of Gods patience, and thine own happiness? Is it not a time which God hath allotted thee, to get a pardon in? What would Cain, Judas, Pilot, Herod, and all the black regiment give for the very hopes of it? Oh prize that here, which thou wilt hereafter esteem infinitely valuable, and call thy self fool and madman a thousand times, for neglecting the opportunity of getting. The anger of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon, what then are the frowns of an infinite just God? Why is thy strength and affection spent about other things? Would a forlorn malefactor leading to execution listen cheerfully to any thing but the news of his princes clemency? Seek it

(1.) To those who are careless of it. Oh! by all means seek it. Will it at last comfort thee, to think of thy mirth and pleasures, how honourable, how rich, or how well stor'd with friends thou hast been? What should take up thy heart, busy thy thoughts or employ thy endeavours, but this that concerns thy eternal state? Wilt thou sin away the time of Gods patience, and thine own happiness? Is it not a time which God hath allotted thee, to get a pardon in? What would Cain, Judas, Pilot, Herod, and all the black regiment give for the very hopes of it? Oh prize that here, which thou wilt hereafter esteem infinitely valuable, and call thy self fool and madman a thousand times, for neglecting the opportunity of getting. The anger of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon, what then are the frowns of an infinite just God? Why is thy strength and affection spent about other things? Would a forlorn malefactor leading to execution listen chearfully to any thing but the news of his princes clemency? Seek it