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5. Meditate of Gods severity against sin. Every Arrow in Gods Quiver is shot against it*. Sin burned Sodom, ¹drowned the old world. Sin kindles Hell. If when a spark of God's wrath flies into a mans Conscience, it is so terrible, what is it then when God stirs up all his wrath? Psal. 78. 39. The meditation of this would fright us out of our sins. There cannot be so much sweetness in sin, as there is sting. How dreadful is God's anger! Psal. 90. 11. Who knoweth the power of his wrath? All fire compared with the fire of God's wrath is painted & imaginary. O that every time we meddle with sin, we would think with our selves we choose the Bramble, and fire will come out of this Bramble to devour us.

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6. Meditate on eternal life, 1 John 2. 25. This is his promise, even eternal ¹life. Life is sweet, and this word Eternal makes it sweeter. This, lies in the immediate vision and fruition of God. 1. This is a spiritual life: it is opposite to that animal life which we live now. Here we hunger and thirst; but there ⟨p. 50⟩we shall hunger no more, Rev. 7. 16. There is the marriage-supper of the Lamb, which will not only satisfy hunger, but prevent it. That blessed life to come doth not consist in sensual delights, meat, and drink, and music; nor in the comfort of Relations: but the Soul will be wholly swallowed up in God, and acquiesce in him with infinite complacency. As when the Sun appears, the Stars vanish: So when God shall appear in his glory, and fill the soul, then all earthly sensitive delights shall vanish. 2. It is a glorious life. The bodies of the Saints shall be enamelled with Glory: they shall be made like Christs glorious body,