Sermons preached

1. So as will become the belief of these things. We must not speak of them as a thing spoken in jest, and by rote, but as firmly persuaded of the truth of things, as if Heaven and Hell were before our Eyes, and as evident to Sense, Heb. 11. 1. We look upon these things naturally as at a distance, and so have but a cold apprehension of them; but we should by Faith see them as near at hand. As you would pull a Man out of the Fire, Jude 23. or as falling into a deep Pit or bottomless Gulf, as one in the greatest earnest. Belief puts a Life into Truths, which otherwise are but dead and weak in their Operation; I believed, and therefore did I speak: as if we had a deep sense of these things upon our own Hearts.

1. So as will become the belief of these things. We must not speak of them as a thing spoken in jest, and by rote, but as firmly perswaded of the truth of things, as if Heaven and Hell were before our Eyes, and as evident to Sense, Heb. 11. 1. We look upon these things naturally as at a distance, and so have but a cold apprehension of them; but we should by Faith see them as near at hand. As you would pull a Man out of the Fire, Iude 23. or as falling into a deep Pit or bottomless Gulph, as one in the greatest earnest. Belief puts a Life into Truths, which otherwise are but dead and weak in their Operation; I believed, and therefore did I speak: as if we had a deep sense of these things upon our own Hearts.

2. As will become Experience. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Knowing the Terrors of the Lord, we persuade Men. A Man that knoweth the Terrors of the Lord, that hath been scorched himself, will set them before Men as if they were at hand, ready to surprise them. Others that talk of these things but as cold Opinions, they will not be so careful to rouse up Men to mind the case of their Souls: If one went unto them from the Dead, then will they repent,