AND now, My Brethren; Will you Know the Things of your Peace? O Unregenerates, Defer not a Moment the Things that Accompany Salvation. Yea, Let none remain at all Unacquainted with the Things which must be done by all that would be Saved. If you do Know something of them, Take that Advice, Hosea VI. 3. Follow on to Know. Perhaps, My Friend, Thy Faith, and Repentance, and Holiness, may be yet but at the best, as a Grain of Mustard Seed. Yea, The best of us all have need of more Grace than we have. You are not yet come to Perfection. Certainly, You need more Weanedness from the World, more Heavenly-Mindedness, more Fervency of Spirit in Serving the Lord; a more United Heart in Fearing of His Name; a more Self-Abasing, and CHRIST-Exalting Disposition. May not the best of us Complain, My Leanness! My Leanness! Yea, May they not come into the Herd with Pharaoh's Lean Kine; which though they had Eaten much, it could ⟨p. 18⟩not be known, that they had Eaten at all! Truly, When our GOD comes to look upon us, He may say, Be astonished, O ye Heavens! Is this the people whom I fed so daintily? Fed with my Word and Sacraments; yea, Fed with my Son! Are these the Persons, whom I made to sit down at my Table, sit down at a Feast of Fat things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well-refined. O Ephraim. What shall I do unto thee? O Judah, What shall I do unto thee? Oh! That the Things of our Peace were better Known among us! But then, The Day of our Peace must be so too. In the Day for that Purpose bestowed upon us, Let us Press after the fullest Knowledge of these Necessary Things. The Time we now spend in the Exercises of Religion, be assured, O Traveller towards another World, It will be no grief of Mind unto thee another day. Religion, 'Tis thy Business, Make it so; and Mind not thy Inn more than thy Home. Soul Bound for Heaven, In thy Opportunities to Know the Things of thy Peace, and make sure of Everlasting Peace, What a Price is there put into thy Hand? Oh! Let it not be in the Hand of a Fool. My Friends, Our Formation this Day into a RELIGIOUS SOCIETY brings the Things of our Peace near unto us▪ and gives us a Day to know those Things; and furnishes us with Uncommon Advantages for the getting and the doing of Good. As Moses of old wished. Oh! that they were Wise: Give my Stammering Tongue leave to say; Oh! That we knew the Day of our Visitation;
AND now, My Brethren; Will you Know the Things of your Peace? O Unregenerates, Defer not a Moment the Things that Accompany Salvation. Yea, Let none remain at all Unacquainted with the Things which must be done by all that would be Saved. If you do Know something of them, Take that Advice, Hosea VI. 3. Follow on to Know. Perhaps, My Friend, Thy Faith, and Repentance, and Holiness, may be yet but at the best, as a Grain of Mustard Seed. Yea, The best of us all have need of more Grace than we have. You are not yet come to Perfection. Certainly, You need more Weanedness from the World, more Heavenly-Mindedness, more Fervency of Spirit in Serving the Lord; a more United Heart in Fearing of His Name; a more Self-Abasing, and CHRIST-Exalting Disposition. May not the best of us Complain, My Leanness! My Leanness! Yea, May they not come into the Herd with Pharaoh's Lean Kine; which though they had Eaten much, it could ⟨p. 18⟩not be known, that they had Eaten at all! Truly, When our GOD comes to look upon us, He may say, Be astonished, O ye Heavens! Is this the people whom I fed so daintily? Fed with my Word and Sacraments; yea, Fed with my Son! Are these the Persons, whom I made to sit down at my Table, sit down at a Feast of Fat things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well-refined. O Ephraim. What shall I do unto thee? O Judah, What shall I do unto thee? Oh! That the Things of our Peace were better Known among us! But then, The Day of our Peace must be so too. In the Day for that Purpose bestowed upon us, Let us Press after the fullest Knowledge of these Necessary Things. The Time we now spend in the Exercises of Religion, be assured, O Traveller towards another World, It will be no grief of Mind unto thee another day. Religion, 'Tis thy Business, Make it so; and Mind not thy Inn more than thy Home. Soul Bound for Heaven, In thy Opportunities to Know the Things of thy Peace, and make sure of Everlasting Peace, What a Price is there put into thy Hand? Oh! Let it not be in the Hand of a Fool. My Friends, Our Formation this Day into a RELIGIOUS SOCIETY brings the Things of our Peace near unto us▪ and gives us a Day to know those Things; and furnishes us with Uncommon Advantages for the getting and the doing of Good. As Moses of old wished. Oh! that they were Wise: Give my Strammering Tongue leave to say; Oh! That we knew the Day of our Visitation;
