Sermons preached

2. Because God will one day call us to an account, Luk. 19. 23. He will demand his own with Usury. We shall be called to a reckoning, what we have done for God, what part and portion he hath had in our time, our strength, our parts our interest: therefore every prudent and wise Christian should himself keep a faithful and constant reckoning, how he lays out himself for God, for he must have a share in all things that we have or do.

3. We must be very sincere in this, because we are under the Eye and inspection of God, who considers whose business we do, his, or our own. Luk. 1. 75. That we should serve him in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our Life. We are ever before him, and though he doth not presently call us to an account, yet many times now he punisheth us for our neglect and mindlessness of his Interest. Ezek. 16. 8. Ye entered into a Covenant with me, and became mine. That was the reason of his Judgments against them. When those that are his do not carry themselves as his, when that that is Sacred is profaned by a common use, then a Judgment is coming upon a Nation if dedicated to God, and it warps from him; or upon a Person, if his ways be not upright with him.

3. We must be very sincere in this, because we are under the Eye and inspection of God, who considers whose business we do, his, or our own. Luk. 1. 75. That we should serve him in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our Life. We are ever before him, and though he doth not presently call us to an account, yet many times now he punisheth us for our neglect and mindlessness of his Interest. Ezek. 16. 8. Ye entred into a Covenant with me, and became mine. That was the reason of his Judgments against them. When those that are his do not carry themselves as his, when that that is Sacred is profaned by a common use, then a Judgment is coming upon a Nation if dedicated to God, and it warps from him; or upon a Person, if his ways be not upright with him.