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

Friend, it may be thou hast been very solicitous to know what shall befall thee whilst thou livest; is there not more cause for thee to be inquisitive, what sha•l befall thee when thou diest? I think it concernneth thee to be faithful and diligent about this work of examining thy soul, whether Jesus Christ be thy life, when all thy happiness hangs on this hinge, even thine estate for eternity: Trivial matters may be ⟨p. 124⟩passed over slightly, but things of weight must be minded seriously. Reader, hadst thou ever a matter of greater or equal concernment to thine unchangeable eternal estate? Are not thy following thy trade, thy providing for thy family, thy eating, drinking, sleeping, and the most necessary things thou canst imagine about thy outward man, but rattles and babies, but toys and trifles in comparison of this?

Friend, it may be thou hast been very solicitous to know what shall befall thee whil'st thou livest; is there not more cause for thee to be inquisitive, what sha•l befall thee when thou diest? I think it concernneth thee to be faithful and diligent about this work of examining thy soul, whether Jesus Christ be thy life, when all thy happiness hangs on this hinge, even thine estate for eternity: Trivial matters may be ⟨p. 124⟩pass'd over sleightly, but things of weight must be minded seriously. Reader, hadst thou ever a matter of greater or equal concernment to thine unchangeable eternal estate? Are not thy following thy trade, thy providing for thy family, thy eating, drinking, sleeping, and the most necessary things thou canst imagine about thy outward man, but rattles and babies, but toys and trifles in comparison of this?

Suppose the title I am speaking of, did but concern an estate in Land of 100 pound per annum, which thou wert buying, wouldst thou not consult with this and that man, whether the Title were good or no? wouldst thou think two or three days ill spent, in searching and advising to prevent the cozenage of thee and thy children? And doth not thy soul, thine eternal estate, deserve more care, more time, more pains, more consulting, searching and questioning, for fear of an everlasting miscarriage? Let thy reason be judge; Had not those wires need to be strong, that have such a weight as thy eternal welfare hanging on them? Should not that Anchor be cast sure, which is entrusted with a vessel so richly laden as with thy