The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…

Fifthly, Consider and think seriously upon the great hazard ye are in of spiritual Judgments, if so be ye neglect holiness and the following of these directions in your life, be affrayed of blinding, hardening, of delusion, of a reprobate mind &c, be affrayed that though ye should get a long time before death, that yet ye may never get grace to repent who thus delay and put it off so long; if ye then would die well and prevent such plagues, live holily, or if ye care not to die miserably, go on in your profanity or in ⟨p. 69⟩your presumption notwithstanding of the hazard of being thus plagued, and of perishing at the last, on the fancied hope of mercy, for one of these ways ye must live and die; but we say again, consider what spiritual Judgments ye may fall under in your delaying, ye know not but a commission may come forth from God to his word and messengers, to make your heart fat, your eyes blind, and your ears heavy &c. such a sad commission as the Prophet Isaiah gets in the sixth Chapter of his prophecy to many of his then-hearers; It may be a challenge hath been resisted, or a motion of the Spirit quenched at this very time, and who knows but ye may never henceforth meet with another that shall do you good? are there not many Judgments of this kind rained on sinners daily? are not many preached blind, deaf, and hard, so that the plainest, clearest, and most home-pressed truths have no more influence on them then upon as many stocks or stones? and whence is this I pray? Is it not from your not making use of the light holden forth to you from this Word of God, and from your resisting, stifling, and smothering of challenges and motions of the Spirit ye have had? because of which God smites you with senselessness.

Fifthlie, Consider and think seriouslie upon the great hazard ye are in of spiritual Judgments, if so be ye neglect holinesse and the following of these directions in your life, be affrayed of blindning, hardning, of delusion, of a reprobat mind &c, be affrayed that though ye should gett a long time before death, that yet ye may never gett grace to repent who thus delay and put it off so long; if ye then would die well and prevent such plagues, live holily, or if ye care not to die miserably, goe on in your profanitie or in ⟨p. 69⟩your presumption notwithstanding of the hazard of being thus plagued, and of perishing at the last, on the fancied hope of mercie, for one of these wayes ye must live and die; but we say againe, consider what spiritual Judgments ye may fall under in your delaying, ye know not but a commission may come forth from God to his word and messengers, to make your heart fatt, your eyes blind, and your ears heavie &c. such a sad commission as the Prophet Isaiah gets in the sixth Chapter of his prophesie to many of his then-hearers; It may be a challenge hath been resisted, or a motion of the Spirit quenched at this verie time, and who knows but ye may never henceforth meet with another that shall doe you good? are there not manie Judgments of this kind rained on sinners dailie? are not manie preached blind, deaff, and hard, so that the plainest, clearest, and most home-pressed truths have no more influence on them then upon as manie stockes or stones? and whence is this I pray? Is it not from your not makeing use of the light holden forth to you from this Word of God, and from your resisting, stiffling, and smothering of challenges and motions of the Spirit ye have had? because of which God smites you with senselessnesse.