Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

1. LET them consider well what is their present State with respect unto God and Eternity. This Moses wisheth for the Israelites, Deut. 32. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end: It is the greatest Folly in the World to leave the Issues of these things unto an uncertain hazard: And that Man who cannot prevail with himself strictly to examine what is his State and Condition with respect unto Eternity, doth never do any good, nor abstain from any evil in a due manner; remember therefore, that many are called, but few are chosen. To be called, is to enjoy all the outward Privileges of the Gospel, which is all you unto whom I speak can pretend unto, yet this you may do and not be chosen: Even among those unto whom the Word is preached, they are but few that shall be saved. In the Distribution made by our Lord Jesus Christ of the Hearers of the Word into four sorts of ground, it was but one of them that received real Benefit thereby; and if our Congregations are no better than were his Hearers, there is not above a fourth part of them that will be saved, it may be a far less number: And is it not strange that every one of them is not jealous over himself and his own Condition? Many herein deceive ⟨p. 3⟩themselves, until they fall under woeful surprisals. And this is represented in the Account of the final Judgment; for the generality of those who have professed the Gospel are introduced as complaining of their Disappointments, Mat. 25. 41, 42, 43. For what is there spoken, is only a Declaration of what befell them here in the close of their Lives, and their Personal Judgment thereon.

1. LET them consider well what is their present State with respect unto God and Eternity. This Moses wisheth for the Israelites, Deut. 32. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end: It is the greatest Folly in the World to leave the Issues of these things unto an uncertain hazzard: And that Man who cannot prevail with himself strictly to examine what is his State and Condition with respect unto Eternity, doth never do any good, nor abstain from any evil in a due manner; remember therefore, that many are called, but few are chosen. To be called, is to enjoy all the outward Priviledges of the Gospel, which is all you unto whom I speak can pretend unto, yet this you may do and not be chosen: Even among those unto whom the Word is preached, they are but few that shall be saved. In the Distribution made by our Lord Jesus Christ of the Hearers of the Word into four sorts of ground, it was but one of them that received real Benefit thereby; and if our Congregations are no better than were his Hearers, there is not above a fourth part of them that will be saved, it may be a far less number: And is it not strange that every one of them is not jealous over himself and his own Condition? Many herein deceive