The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

4. What if God should take the Gospel away from you? This also is a Judgment threatened, Mat. 21. 43. Rev. 2. 5. And God is wont to execute it, when other means fail, and an Apostatizing people will not be reclaimed. How many famo•• Churches have there been in the world, which are utterly ruined, and lie in rubbish, or swallowed up in Paganism or Mohammedanism? Nor are we m••• secure! How doleful a thing would it be, to •• the whole face of a Church altered, all the me•• of grace lost and gone, God forsaking his house, and removing from us? if ever it come to this, it will be because we did not know the things of […] peace in the day of them. Let the very thoughts of such a thing put us upon improving the pre••• precious season.

4. What if God should take the Gospel away from you? This also is a Judgment threatned, Mat. 21. 43. Rev. 2. 5. And God is wont to execute it, when other means fail, and an Apostatizing people will not be reclaimed. How many famo•• Churches have there been in the world, which are utterly ruined, and ly in rubbish, or swallowed up in Paganism or Mahome•anism? Nor are we m••• secure! How doleful a thing would it be, to •• the whole face of a Church altered, all the me•• of grace lost and gone, God forsaking his house, and removing from us? if ever it come to this, it will be because we did not know the things of 〈…〉 peace in the day of them. Let the very thoughts of such a thing put us upon improving the pre••• precious season.