Tho we judg it needless to speak much of this eminent Author, whose Praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches; yet we could not but give some account of the publishing of these small Tracts at this time. Many, who well knew how mighty this Man of God was in the Scriptures, and how skilful, from his great Abilities, and long Experience in the interpreting of them, have impatiently desired the publishing of his Labours; but that being a Work of time, it was thought fit to gratify them in the interim with this short Treatise. And tho his excellency lay chiefly ⟨image 3⟩in wading into the great Deeps of the Gospel, yet among many other Discourses, this of Hell was made choice of, wherein, we think, you have the true scriptural Notion of it. We judged that such a rousing Argument might not be unseasonable in so secure and Atheistical an Age as this; and that the Profound Mysteries of the Gospel, excellently discovered in his Lectures upon the Ephesians, might be the more welcome to those who have known the Terrors of the Lord, or have their Senses exercised to discern spiritual things. Upon the request of some, we have also added a Discourse of the State of Glory for the Saints, immediately after this Life, being very suitable to Times of Suffering; since it was the constant Method of the Apostles, to keep up in the Eyes of the Primitive Saints, the Glory of another World, ⟨image 3⟩as what was proper to support them under the Sufferings of this: And 'twas one main design of the Transfiguration of Christ, in the presence of Peter, James, and John, who were to be great Sufferers in the Times of the New Testament, as Moses and Elijah had been under the Old; intimating what the Saints in after Ages might expect, in a Conformity to Christ, after all their Sufferings.
THo we judg it needless to speak much of this eminent Author, whose Praise is in the Gospel throughout all the Churches; yet we could not but give some account of the publishing of these small Tracts at this time. Many, who well knew how mighty this Man of God was in the Scriptures, and how skilful, from his great Abilities, and long Experience in the interpreting of them, have impatiently desired the publishing of his Labours; but that being a Work of time, it was thought fit to gratify them in the interim with this short Treatise. And tho his excellency lay chiefly ⟨image 3⟩in wading into the great Deeps of the Gospel, yet among many other Discourses, this of Hell was made choice of, wherein, we think, you have the true scriptural Notion of it. We judged that such a rousing Argument might not be unseasonable in so secure and Atheistical an Age as this; and that the Profound Mysteries of the Gospel, excellently discovered in his Lectures upon the Ephesians, might be the more welcom to those who have known the Terrors of the Lord, or have their Senses exercised to discern spiritual things. Upon the request of some, we have also added a Discourse of the State of Glory for the Saints, immediately after this Life, being very suitable to Times of Suffering; since it was the constant Method of the Apostles, to keep up in the Eyes of the Primitive Saints, the Glory of another World, ⟨image 3⟩as what was proper to support them under the Sufferings of this: And 'twas one main design of the Transfiguration of Christ, in the presence of Peter, James, and John, who were to be great Sufferers in the Times of the New Testament, as Moses and Elias had been under the Old; intimating what the Saints in after Ages might expect, in a Conformity to Christ, after all their Sufferings.
