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A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at…A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at…
A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farewell sermon preached at Stephens Walbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. Watson.A pastors love expressed to a loving people in a farwel sermon preached at Stephens VValbrook, London, August 17, 1662 / by Mr. Tho. VVatson.
London printed : s.n., 1662
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Direct. 20. And so I have done; every day spend some thought upon eternity. O eternity, O eternity, ⟨p. 16⟩all of us here ere long, it may be some of us in a few days or hours, must launch out into the Ocean of eternity. There is no prospective Glass, saith Boethius, by which we can see to the end of eternity; these sands can never be numbered, this line can never be measured; eternity it is a condition that is everlasting; you that are godly you shall be everlastingly happy, you shall always be sunning your selves in the light of Gods countenance, but the wicked shall be always suffering, ever lying under the scalding dropping of the wrath of the Almighty; eternity to the godly, it is a day that hath no sun setting; eternity to the wicked, is a night that hath no sun rising. The serious thoughts of eternity would be a great means to promote holiness, the fore-thoughts of eternity would make us be very serious about our souls. O my soul thou art shortly to fly into eternity, a condition that never can be reversed or altered. How serious would this make us about the heaven-born soul, Zeuxes being asked why he was so long in drawing a Picture? Answered, I am now painting for eternity. How fervent would that man pray that thinks he is praying for eternity? how holy and circumspect would that man live that thinks upon this moment hangs eternity?
Direct. 20. And so I have done; every day spend some thought upon eternity. O eternity, O eternity, ⟨p. 16⟩all of us here ere long, it may be some of us in a few days or hours, must lanch out into the Ocean of eternity. There is no prospective Glass, saith Boetius, by which we can see to the end of eternity; these sands can never be numbered, this line can never be measured; eternity it is a condition that is everlasting; you that are godly you shall be everlastingly happy, you shall always be sunning your selves in the light of Gods countenance, but the wicked shall be always suffering, ever lying under the scalding droping of the wrath of the Almighty; eternity to the godly, it is a day that hath no sun setting; eternity to the wicked, is a night that hath no sun rising. The serious thoughts of eternity would be a great means to promote holiness, the fore-thoughts of eternity would make us be very serious about our souls. O my soul thou art shortly to fly into eternity, a condition that never can be reversed or altered. How serious would this make us about the heaven-born soul, Zeuxes being asked why he was so long in drawing a Picture? Answered, I am now painting for eternity. How fervent would that man pray that thinks he is praying for eternity? how holy and circumspect would that man live that thinks upon this moment hangs eternity?