Sermons preached

(2.) There is an utter Unsuitableness of Heart to them. Things present, that suit their Fancies, and please their Senses, carry away their Hearts. Psal. 49. 18. Whilst he lived, he blessed his Soul: and Men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thy self. Men bless themselves, and the carnal World applauds them in a sensual Course and Way of Living. They measure all Happiness by their outward Condition in the World, and please themselves with golden Dreams of Contentment; and this being seconded with the flattery and applauses of the deceived World, they are fast asleep in the midst of the greatest Soul-Dangers, and so go down into Hell before they think of it.

(2.) There is an utter Unsuitableness of Heart to them. Things present, that sute their Fancies, and please their Senses, carry away their Hearts. Psal. 49. 18. Whilest he lived, he blessed his Soul: and Men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thy self. Men bless themselves, and the carnal World applauds them in a sensual Course and Way of Living. They measure all Happiness by their outward Condition in the World, and please themselves with golden Dreams of Contentment; and this being seconded with the flattery and applauses of the deceived World, they are fast asleep in the midst of the greatest Soul-Dangers, and so go down into Hell before they think of it.

2. Come we now to the Regenerate. Such the Apostle looks upon the Thessalonians to be. They need to have their Hearts directed to the patient waiting for Christ, for these Reasons.

(1.) Because we have too dim and doubtful a foresight of these things. How dark a Prospect have even the best of God's Children of the World to come? We may speak of