Thus you see the Means, now use them, and long for the Lord Jesus in them, and so long as that you may meet him; and do it presently, else you may seek and not find him, and die in your sins, John 8. 21. A sad and heavy speech. Hath God singled you out of all people in the world to enjoy him, and will you now forsake him, and be eaten up with your Lots, and buried in the bellies of your Beasts, or sit grieving that your estates are sunk? It may be Hypocrites will forsake the Lord Jesus, but will you also depart? Others care not for him, others long not after him, others give him no meeting, will you depart? Lord to whom shall we go? Oh and long for more of him, forget what is behind, and hear, and pray as if thou never didst so before, as if but new to begin. There is a plot afoot to make you loath Ordinances, that so God may loath you: Men that are sick and like to die, can eat no common wholesome meat, but are now nourished by conserves, and Alchermies, and Spirits of Gold: So when wholesome Truths of God are despised, men are deadly sick, when any new-fangled device shall feed their fancy. The Lord keep you from it. Oh do you love and long for the Lord in them the more, for his Spirit, his love, his Truth, his Christ, his company, his Grace, his consolations, and then when death comes, you shall not need to fear it, but make it welcome, and when Conscience shall ask, Do you think to be with the Lord? Oh it shall be peace in thy bosom! Lord thee have I longed for, thee have I sought for, wept for here, because I could not come to thee presently in Heaven. Now Lord let me come to thee, and so go triumphing to Glory.
Thus you see the Means, now use them, and long for the Lord Jesus in them, and so long as that you may meet him; and do it presently, else you may seek and not find him, and die in your sins, Iohn 8. 21. A sad and heavy speech. Hath God singled you out of all people in the world to enjoy him, and will you now forsake him, and be eaten up with your Lots, and buried in the bellies of your Beasts, or sit grieving that your estates are sunk? It may be Hypocrites will forsake the Lord Jesus, but will you also depart? Others care not for him, others long not after him, others give him no meeting, will you depart? Lord to whom shall we go? Oh and long for more of him, forget what is behind, and hear, and pray as if thou never didst so before, as if but new to begin. There is a plot afoot to make you loath Ordinances, that so God may loath you: Men that are sick and like to die, can eat no common wholsom meat, but are now nourished by conserves, and Alchermies, and Spirits of Gold: So when wholsom Truths of God are despised, men are deadly sick, when any new-fangled device shall feed their fancy. The Lord keep you from it. Oh do you love and long for the Lord in them the more, for his Spirit, his love, his Truth, his Christ, his company, his Grace, his consolations, and then when death comes, you shall not need to fear it, but make it welcome, and when Conscience shall ask, Do you think to be with the Lord? Oh it shall be peace in thy bosom! Lord thee have I longed for, thee have I sought for, wept for here, because I could not come to thee presently in Heaven. Now Lord let me come to thee, and so go triumphing to Glory.
