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

Suppose I say that thou hadst heard and seen all this, and God should after it try thee in this world forty years, wouldst thou not night and day be struggling and striving with God by prayer, watching over thy own heart, waiting upon thy Saviour? With what earnestness wouldst thou pray? with what seriousness wouldst thou read and hear? with what exactness and exemplariness wouldst thou live? how diligent and laborious wouldst thou be in a faithful improvement of all thy time, talents, and opportunities, that thou mightest find mercy at such a day, even the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life! Wouldst thou after such a sight think any time too much, or any pains too great, for thy eternal good? Couldst thou give the world and the flesh, the choicest place in thy heart, and the chiefest part of thy life as now thou dost? shouldst thou dare to be nibbling again at the devils baits, or to be playing with the eternal fire, or to put off God with a few cold formal prayers, and that by fits, in stead of hearty, fiery, continual ⟨p. 213⟩supplication? or to put off Jesus Christ with a complement, that thou wearest his livery, and professest thy self a Christian, in stead of a sincere resolved dedication of heart and life to his word and law. What sayest thou man? And why wilt thou not be as diligent and as holy now? thou mayest in the glass of Scripture see all that I have spoken (for the substance of it at least) if thou hast but an eye of faith; and without question the sight of faith is as sure and true as a sight of sense; what reason canst thou have, why thou shouldst not work as industriously to escape hell, and obtain heaven, as if thou hadst known these things experimentally, when the word of the living and true God speaketh it so expressly? look 2 Cor. 5. & 10. Acts 17.13. Eccles. 12.2. ult. vers.

Suppose I say that thou hadst heard and seen all this, and God should after it try thee in this world fourty years, wouldst thou not night and day be strugling and striving with God by prayer, watching over thy own heart, waiting upon thy Saviour? With what earnestness wouldst thou pray? with what seriousness wouldst thou read and hear? with what exactness and exemplariness wouldst thou live? how diligent and laborious wouldst thou be in a faithful improvement of all thy time, talents, and opportunities, that thou mightest find mercy at such a day, even the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life! Wouldst thou after such a sight think any time too much, or any pains too great, for thy eternal good? Couldst thou give the world and the flesh, the choicest place in thy heart, and the chiefest part of thy life as now thou dost? shouldst thou dare to be nibbling again at the devils baits, or to be playing with the eternal fire, or to put off God with a few cold formal prayers, and that by fits, in stead of hearty, fiery, continual