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In the concerns of the present life, God would have us live at an holy kind of adventure, and leave all to providence, i. e. as to the issues and events of things.

But oh how are men turned Gods antipodes! What cannot be made sure, and God would not have to be sure, that vain man would make sure, and that which may be made sure, which God commands us to make sure, and what the Saints have made sure, this and this only, he takes upon trust, and leaves it upon: Why nots and peradventures. Thus man stands (as one saith) upon his head, ⟨p. 114⟩and shakes his heels against heaven. It is a Lamentation, and shall be for a Lamentation,

A second Consideration may be this: ¹To get assurance of heaven, is a work never unseasonable, but never more seasonable than in times of danger and uncertainty, when all sublunary things are in a doubtful and wavering condition; in such a juncture of time, he that can secure heaven by making his calling and election sure, he is like the Philosophers good man, ²four-square, cast him which way you will, he always falls upon a square, he is built upon a Rock and cannot be shaken, or though he be moved, he cannot be removed, but stands like a pillar in the Temple of God, even like those pillars in Solomon's Temple, Jachin and Boaz, stability and strength.

A second Consideration may be this: ¹To get assurance of heaven, is a work never unseasonable, but never more seasonable than in times of danger and uncertainty, when all sublunary things are in a doubtful and wavering condition; in such a juncture of time, he that can secure heaven by making his calling and election sure, he is like the Philosophers good man,