Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

I come now to a second use, and that will be by way of examination. If it be so, ⟨p. 123⟩that they who have Christ for their •ife ••ll have gain by their death; then examine whether thou art one of them, to whom to die will be gain. Like a Merchant, cast up the accounts between God and thy soul, and see how much thou art worth for another world; It is good husbandry to know the state of thy flock, Prov. 27.23. but there is a greater necessity of knowing the state of thy soul, of communing with thy own heart. Psal. 4.5. Is it not a thousand pities to live known to others, and to die unknown to thy self? to speak so often,¹ and so much to others, and yet in the many years that thou hast lived, never to have spent one hour in serious discourse with thy self, about thine eternal condition, what shall become of thee for ever?

I come now to a second use, and that will be by way of examination. If it be so, ⟨p. 123⟩that they who have Christ for their •ife ••ll have gain by their death; then examine whether thou art one of them, to whom to die will be gain. Like a Merchant, cast up the accompts between God and thy soul, and see how much thou art worth for another world; It is good husbandry to know the state of thy flock, Prov. 27.23. but there is a greater necessity of knowing the state of thy soul, of communing with thy own heart. Psal. 4.5. Is it not a thousand pities to live known to others, and to die unknown to thy self? to speak so often,¹