The Fountain of Life Opened

Thou sometimes reflectest upon the state of thy soul, and enquirest is Christ mine? may I depend upon it, that my condition is safe? thy heart returns thee an answer of peace, it speaks as thou wouldst have it; but remember (friend) and mark this line, Thy final sentence is not yet come from the mouth of thy judge; ¹and what if after all thy self flattering hopes, and groundless confidences a sentence should come from him quite cross to that of thine own heart? where art thou then? what a confounded person wilt thou be? Christless, speechless, and hopeless all at once!

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O therefore build sure for Eternity: take heed lest the loss of thine eternal happiness, be at last imputed by thee to the deceitfulness, and laziness of thine own heart; lest thy heart say to thee in Hell, as the heart of Apollodorus seemed in his sufferings to say to him.¹ I am the cause of all this misery to thee.

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(3.) If thou be one whose heart is eagerly set upon this vain world, I beseech thee take heed, lest it interpose it self betwixt Christ and thy soul, and so cut thee off from him for ever. O beware lest the dust of the earth getting into thine eyes, so blind thee, that thou never see the beauty or