How, How shall I set on this Thought ⟨p. 31⟩with a proper pungency? I will bring my […] as near to take, as I can for my Life. In our most Quiet and Healthy Times, take one Year with another, there Dyes out of this Town in one Year, above One Hundred and Fifty People; which I take up be about a Fortieth Part of the People. Accordingly, to all probability, there are at least One Hundred and Fifty People now living in this Town, that before […] Year come about, will be carried before be Judgment […] of God. And there is not so much as One of all you, my Hearers, but for ought he can tell, he may make one of this Number. Ah, Lord, why should not I be One of them! Now there will not be One of this Number, but if they have the Age, and the Sense, to speak Reasonably in their Dying Hours, I can certainly foretell thus much concerning them. Come to them in those Dying Hearts, when their Breath is Failing, their Throat is R••ling, their Eyes have a Cloud, and their Hands a Damp upon them; and their Soul, their Soul, is going; and, Then! Ask them, Whether they do not judge it the Highest wisdom it […] to Fear God, and Love Christ, and Hate Sin, and Slight the World and be […] abounding in the Duties of Serious Religion? They will most certainly ⟨p. 32⟩bear a lively Testimony to it, Oh! There is no wisdom comparable to that of Serious Religion. They will choose, they will wish, Oh! Let me Die the Death of the Righteous, and let my Last End be like his! And why then, will not our People be W•n unto this wisdom? Why should any Souls, under the Gospel that should win our Souls, continue like the Deaf Adder, which will not […] Voice of Charmers, that Charm […] Wisely? Let them not wonder, if we tell […] That this […] way is their Folly. The Sinner is in the Divine Oracles very often called, A […] He will a Thousand times oftener call himself, A Fool. He will regret, and reproach his own Folly, more than Ten Thousand Ages. O solicited Soul; There are Two that more thee, to make thee their own. The Saviour, He Woos thee, My Son, Give me thy Heart; Be thou mine, and I will […] a spectator and a partaker of my Glory […]. The Destroyer, he Woos thee, […] Follow the Pleasures of Sin for a Season; Gratify my Temptations, and run the venture of a share in my Everlasting Miseries. But which of these now, shall Win that solicited Soul?
How, How shall I set on this Thought ⟨p. 31⟩with a proper pungency? I will bring my 〈…〉 as near to take, as I can for my Life. In our most Quiet and Healthy Times, take one Year with another, there Dyes out of this Town in one Year, above One Hundred and Fifty People; which I take up be about a Fortieth Part of the People. Accordingly, to all probability, there are at least One Hundred and Fifty People now living in this Town, that before 〈…〉 Year come about, will be carried before be Judgment 〈…〉 of God. And there is not so much as One of all you, my Hearers, but for ought he can tell, he may make one of this Number. Ah, Lord, why should not I be One of them! Now there will not be One of this Number, but if they have the Age, and the Sense, to speak Reasonably in their Dying Hours, I can certainly foretel thus much concerning them. Come to them in those Dying Hearts, when their Breath is Failing, their Throat is R••ling, their Eyes have a Cloud, and their Hands a Damp upon them; and their Soul, their Soul, is going; and, Then! Ask them, Whether they do not judge it the Highest wisdom it 〈…〉 to Fear God, and Love Christ, and Hate Sin, and Slight the World and be 〈…〉 abounding in the Duties of Serious Religion? They will most certainly ⟨p. 32⟩bear a lively Testimony to it, Oh! There is no wisdom comparable to that of Serious Religion. They will choose, they will wish, Oh! Let me Dy the Death of the Righteous, and let my Last End be like his! And why then, will not our People be W•n unto this wisdom? Why should any Souls, under the Gospel that should win our Souls, continue like the Deaf Adder, which will not 〈…〉 Voice of Charmers, that Charm 〈…〉 Wisely? Let them not wonder, if we tell 〈…〉 That this 〈…〉 way is their Folly. The Sinner is in the Divine Oracles very often called, A 〈…〉 He will a Thousand times of•ner call himself, A Fool. He will regret, and reproach his own Folly, more than Ten Thousand Ages. O sollicited Soul; There are Two that more thee, to make thee their own. The Saviour, He Wooes thee, My Son, Give me thy Heart; Be thou mine, and I will 〈…〉 a spectator and a partaker of my Glory 〈…〉. The Destroyer, he Wooes thee, 〈…〉 Follow the Pleasures of Sin for a Season; Gratify my Temptations, and run the venture of a share in my Everlasting Miseries. But which of these now, shall Win that sollicited Soul?
