2. It is near; if you had but wisdom to see into eternity, and the nature of time, you would say so also, Psal. 90. 4. A thousand years are but as yesterday, and as a watch in the night. Vers. 5. our time is as a sleep, short and vain. Ver. 6. it is but as a flower of one days glory; nay, it is but as a thought, vers. 9. It is so when you see things as they are, and you will account it so. Oh therefore let me beg this of you, make Christs coming, and death near to you, tha• you may be delivered from your dead palsies, deep slumbers, and dying sick sleeps; especially seeing the signs of the Lords coming to reckon with you, do you think to escape? Masters that betrust Servants with most, will they call others to account, to whom they have betrusted less, and not you? what people under heaven be trusted with more mercies and liberties than we! and do you think he is gone to a far Country, and will never return? He let Palatine and other Churches enjoy the means long, he summons them to an account by famine, sword, and pestilence, wild beasts, and cruel Soldiers; and shall he never ride in his circuit this way? yes verily: Do you boast in the goodly stones of this Temple? If the Lord by your security be despised, and his Messengers, and Ordinances, and Kingdom, he will not leave one stone upon another: When will this be? not yet: that's true; yet awake at the signs of it, Mat. 24. Wars, rumours of wars, famine, earthquakes, deceivers that come in the name of Christ, Apostasy of Professors, whence many com• to be offended, Divisions and scatterings of one Brother against another, Iniquity abounding in the World, and Love growing cold in Churches; If these be not amongst us now, we have the less cause to fear; if so, have we not cause to awake one hour considering our time is nigh! if not, yet Christs time is nigh of coming to particular persons.
2. It is near; if you had but wisdom to see into eternity, and the nature of time, you would say so also, Psal. 90. 4. A thousand years are but as yesterday, and as a watch in the night. Vers. 5. our time is as a sleep, short and vain. Ver. 6. it is but as a flower of one days glory; nay, it is but as a thought, vers. 9. It is so when you see things as they are, and you will account it so. Oh therefore let me beg this of you, make Christs coming, and death near to you, tha• you may be delivered from your dead palsies, deep slumbers, and dying sick sleeps; especially seeing the signs of the Lords coming to reckon with you, do you think to escape? Masters that betrust Servants with most, will they call others to account, to whom they have betrusted less, and not you? what people under heaven be trusted with more mercies and liberties than we! and do you think he is gone to a far Country, and will never return? He let Palatine and other Churches enjoy the means long, he summons them to an account by famine, sword, and pestilence, wilde beasts, and cruel Souldiers; and shall he never ride in his circuit this way? yes verily: Do you boast in the goodly stones of this Temple? If the Lord by your security be despised, and his Messengers, and Ordinances, and Kingdom, he will not leave one stone upon another: When will this be? not yet: that's true; yet awake at the signs of it, Mat. 24. Wars, rumors of wars, famine, aerthquakes, deceivers that come in the name of Christ, Apostacy of Professors, whence many com• to be offended, Divisions and scatterings of one Brother against another, Iniquity abounding in the World, and Love growing cold in Churches; If these be not amongst us now, we have the less cause to fear; if so, have we not cause to awake one hour considering our time is nigh! if not, yet Christs time is nigh of coming to particular persons.
