A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

I have yet a further Reach in this Address, both upon Preachers, and their Hearers.

1. To the former I would humbly offer, that they would so Preach, so Pray, so Labour, as they that are convinced they are all this while a dying; that are passing every Moment from the Improving of, to the Accounting for their Talents. Dying Ministers preach living Sermons. It deserves our Observation, that God who honoured his Servant Ezekiel with abundance of glorious Revelations and Visions, enough to have swelled a Bubble till it broke, to have lifted up a poor Worm above its measure, should yet always use to him that abasing Term, Son of Man; warning him, and in him all his faithful Ministers, to fulfil their Ministry; to work while it's called To Day; that whatever their Hand findeth to do, they should do it with all their Might, because there's no Work, nor Device, nor Knowledge, nor Wisdom in the Grave, whither they are going, Eccles. 9.10. How joyfully will a Minister receive the Summons to his Audit, when a good Conscience shall afford him this Testimony, I have fought a good Fight, I have finished my Course, I have kept the Faith? 2 Tim. 4.7. How edifying would their Preaching be, could they carry these Thoughts with them into the Pulpit; The Eye that now sees me, shall see me no more; The Ear that now hears me, shall in a little while hear me no more: There must be a last Time that I must speak in Christ's Name to this People, and this may be that last Time? O with what fervent Prayer, with what Earnestness of Affection, with what yearning Bowels to perishing Sinners, with what Zeal for their Conversion would they engage in their Master's Service, were their Souls impregnated with lively quick Apprehensions, that the Graves are ready to receive them.

1. To the former I would humbly offer, that they would so Preach, so Pray, so Labour, as they that are convinced they are all this while a dying; that are passing every Moment from the Improving of, to the Accounting for their Talents. Dying Ministers preach living Sermons. It deserves our Observation, that God who honoured his Servant Ezekiel with abundance of glorious Revelations and Visions, enough to have swell'd a Bubble till it broke, to have lifted up a poor Worm above its measure, should yet always use to him that abasing Term, Son of Man; warning him, and in him all his faithful Ministers, to fulfil their Ministry; to work while it's called To Day; that whatever their Hand findeth to do, they should do it with all their Might, because there's no Work, nor Device, nor Knowledg, nor Wisdom in the Grave, whither they are going,