Addresses to old men, and young men, and little children. In three discourses ...…

Consider Secondly, The End of your Days, will be but the beginning of your never-ending Miseries, if you die without a saving Interest in Him that is from the Beginning. 'Tis none o•t he that is from the Beginning, who can deliver you from the woes and plagues that will never have an end. We are told in I Thes. 1. 10. It is Jesus who delivers from the wrath to come; without an Union to Him, that wrath will come upon you, and after it is already come, it will be still to come, there will be more of it still to come throughout, Eternal Ages. You that are near to your Death, are as near unto the Worm that never dyes, and unto the Fire that never shall be quenched, if a speedy Conversion prevent it not. It is a dreadful word in Joh. 8. 24. Ye shall die in your sins. Be not so thick of Hearing in this your old Age, as to be deaf unto this Warning of God; If you do not quickly get out of your sins by a closure with the Lord Jesus Christ, you I die in them; but so to Die is to die under the formidable Curse of the Omnipotent ⟨p. 28⟩God, and it is to Die exposed unto the Vengeance of Eternal Fire. Poor old man, Thou hast already seed many bitter dismal doleful days, and had thy Heart often broken with those Evil Days; but be assured, all the past black Hours of thy life are but the beginning of sorrows; if thou dost not immediately get an Interest in Him that is from the Beginning. If an old man don't get out of old Adam before he die, he will find an old Hell prepared for him; and this also circumstanced with very dreadful Aggravations. How many sins does a man commit in one Fifty or Threescore Years! But old men, if you are still out of Christ, the God of Heaven remembers all your old sins, as fresh as if they had been done but this very morning. Our Lord said of some that were Dead and Damned many years before, in Joh. 10. 8. They ARE Thieves. Even so, the old man out of Christ IS in the account of God, the same sinner that once he was; it may be said of him, as once it was of some, He is not purged from his old sins. But what a prodigious load of sins then lies upon such an old man, to sink him into the Sulphureous Abyss of Hell! Hence 'twas said in