USE, 2. Let it be a loud and awakening Call to all unregenerate sinners, if you woul• not suffer the utmost distress of the most pinc• ing famine, to get away from the world Make hast out of your natural state, live n• longer in this far Country; your distance fro• God is your misery, return to him and yo• shall be happy: You that live jocund and pleasant, you that think all is well, and shall be •• though you add iniquity to sin, be perswade• to take this warning: As much pomp an• splendour as you now live in, as satisfied as yo• are at present, ere it be long a famine will com• a mighty famine, and what will you do then▪ Oh, fly from it before you come to the utmo•• distress: Did Abraham go to Egypt, the Shummite to the Philistines, being warned of a temporal famine? Do not you then despise th• warning, to come out of Egypt and Philisti•• to escape a spiritual famine: Be assured, it will be a sore and distressing thing to feel wrath and misery seizing upon you, and have nothing but a vain world to go to; miserable comforters shall you find all these things to be▪ they will not afford you one dram of consolation, nor give one morsel of quiet to your souls▪ you may cry and roar in your distress, but there will be none to help you; God whom you have ⟨p. 91⟩forsaken, it may be will not, and to be sure the world in which you have trusted cannot: It will be a complicate misery to be a bankrupt, and in a far Country, and there to be seized with a mighty famine; now you are called to avoid this: All you want is with God, for though the world be empty, he is full; that can supply no spiritual necessity, he can satisfy all; there you must needs perish, here you may be saved and satisfied: There is bread in Egypt when all other countries have none, but look one upon another, and pine and die: There is no want with God, there is nothing else but want every where else: Do but open your eyes, the Lord open them for you; the famine is upon you now though you discern it not; see and be affected with and fly from it: and let this be your encouragement, that though you have provoked God by going from him, and abused his goodness, yet, as there is with him enough and to spare, so upon your penitent return you need not doubt or fear, but to find relief and welcome with him, as will also appear in the sequel of the Parable:
USE, 2. Let it be a loud and awakenin• Call to all unregenerate sinners, if you woul• not suffer the utmost distress of the most pinc• ing famine, to get away from the world Make hast out of your natural state, live n• longer in this far Country; your distance fro• God is your misery, return to him and yo• shal be happy: You that live jocund and plesant, you that think all is well, and shal be •• though you add iniquity to sin, be perswade• to take this warning: As much pomp an• splendor as you now live in, as satisfied as yo• are at present, ere it be long a famine will com• a mighty famine, and what will you do then▪ Oh, fly from it before you come to the utmo•• distress: Did Abraham go to Egypt, the Shummite to the Philistins, being warned of a temporal famine? Do not you then despise th• warning, to come out of Egypt and Philisti•• to escape a spiritual famine: Be assured, it will be a sore and distressing thing to feel wrath and misery siezing upon you, and have nothing but a vain world to go to; miserable comforters shal you find all these things to be▪ they will not afford you one dram of consolation, nor give one morsel of quiet to your souls▪ you may cry and roar in your distress, but there will be none to help you; God whom you have ⟨p. 91⟩forsaken, it may be will not, and to be sure the world in which you have trusted cannot: It will be a complicate misery to be a bankrupt, and in a far Country, and there to be siezed with a mighty famine; now you are called to avoid this: All you want is with God, for though the world be empty, he is full; that can supply no spiritual necessity, he can satisfie all; there you must needs perish, here you may be saved and satisfied: There is bread in Egypt when all other countries have none, but look one upon another, and pine and dy: There is no want with God, there is nothing else but want every where else: Do but open your eyes, the Lord open them for you; the famine is upon you now though you discern it not; see and be affected with and fly from it: and let this be your encouragement, that though you have provoked God by going from him, and abused his goodness, yet, as there is with him enough and to spare, so upon your penitent return you need not doubt or fear, but to find relief and welcome with him, as will also appear in the sequel of the Parable:
