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

3. We must seek after this, if ever we obtain it. On how many Solemn considerations is this Command urged in the Scriptures? and, though it be a Solemn truth, that if Christ do not seek us first by his preventing Grace, we shall never seek him; yet the way in which he cometh to be found by us, is in his putting us upon seeking him He gives us such an heart, and then he comes and revealeth himself to us. All men are either seekers or forsakers of him, and we are told how it is with both, 1 Chron. 28. 9.

4. We have but this time of life to do it in, God hath limited the whole opportunity of a• treaty with Sinners hither: What said Christ to those Jews that despised him, Joh. 8. 21. Ye shall• seek me, and die in your sins. This life is mans• probation time, for another. You have but on• life to work in, take heed then that you d• not let it go before your work be done: Go• will not give you a second life to try over again, if you spend this away prodigally, though• ⟨p. 321⟩you should repent never so bitterly of it, and promise never so fairly; he will bid you to remember you had a time, but you regarded it not.

4. We have but this time of life to do it in, God hath limited the whole opportunity of a• treaty with Sinners hither: What said Christ to those Jews that despised him,