The falseness of the hopes of many professors, showed in a sermon preached in…The falseness of the hopes of many professors, shewed in a sermon preached in…

Here Consider two thing•.

1. Th•• may stand by you, when you are well, […] w••l not stand by you, when you are dying. Many men when they are in health are taken […] about Worldly business, and carnal enjoyments, and have very little sense of Eternal things, and then they can make a shift to quiet themselves with some probabilities of Eternal •ife: When Death is looked upon a remote ••ing, small encouragement will support their […], but when they come to dye, they are […] times sensible that it is a dreadful thing […] •arry, if they should be mistaken, they •ould be unspeakably miserable, and they don't •ow how to content themselves with uncer••• hopes; if a man should tell them, that there ⟨p. 20⟩is a probability of their Salvation, they think with themselves, But what if it should be otherwise? how can I bear the blackness of darkness, and the never dying worm, and unquenchable fire? Now they are more accurate in searching themselves, they cannot satisfy themselves with small appearances, and slender grounds of comfort; and sometimes they plainly discern that their hopes were delusions, that they have miserably cheated themselves, that their Religion has been nothing else but Formality. I have heard a dying Professor bitterly bewail the want of Sincerity. Then men will consider more thoroughly after what manner they have lived. When the Bridegroom was coming, the foolish Virgins complain, That their Lamps were gone out,