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

Use 3. It is an Invitation to the Practice of Holiness. Blessedness is a great Motive, David begins the Book of Psalms with it, and Christ his Sermons; there is enough in it to allay the Sorrows of the present Life, and fill up the Desires of the Life to come. All would be blessed and happy, but we must take the right course; say as Christ's Hearers, John 6.34. Lord, evermore give us this Bread. As Balaam, Numb. 23.10. Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his. Be not content as Balaam with a Vision of Jacob's happy Seats, Numb. 24.5. How goodly are thy Tents, O Jacob! and thy Tabernacles, O Israel! As the Noble-man that saw the Plenty of Israel, but did not eat thereof, 2 Kings 7.20. And so it fell out unto him, for the People trod upon him in the Gate, and he died. The Damned at the last Day are Lookers on, but not Partakers of the Blessedness of the Righteous; Luke 13.28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and ⟨p. 130⟩Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God, and your your selves thrust out.

Vse 3. It is an Invitation to the Practice of Holiness. Blessedness is a great Motive, David begins the Book of Psalms with it, and Christ his Sermons; there is enough in it to allay the Sorrows of the present Life, and fill up the Desires of the Life to come. All would be blessed and happy, but we must take the right course; say as Christ's Hearers, Iohn 6.34. Lord, evermore give us this Bread. As Balaam, Numb. 23.10. Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his. Be not content as Balaam with a Vision of Iacob's happy Seats, Numb. 24.5. How goodly are thy Tents, O Jacob! and thy Tabernacles, O Israel! As the Noble-man that saw the Plenty of Israel, but did not eat thereof,