5. Consider what a doleful Company that will be that be left after this extraordinary Time of Mercy is over. We have Reason to think that there will be a Number left. We read that when Ezekiel's healing Waters increased so abundantly, and the healing Effect of them was so very general; yet there were certain Places where the Waters came, that never were healed. Eze. 47.9, 10.11. And it shall come to pass, that every Thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the Rivers come, shall live. And there be a very great Multitude of Fish, because these Waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed, and every Thing shall live, whither the River cometh. And it shall come to pass, that the Fishers shall stand upon it, from En-gedi, even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a Place to spread forth Nets: There Fish shall be according to their Kinds, as the Fish of the Great Sea, exceeding many. But the miry Places thereof, and the Marshes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be given to Salt. And even in the Apostles Times, when there was such wonderful Success of the Gospel, yet wherever they came there were some that did not believe. Acts 13.48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the Word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal Life believed. And Chap. 28.24 And some believed, and some believed not. So we have no Reason to expect, but there will be some left amongst us. 'Tis to be hoped it will be but a small Company: But what a doleful Company will it be! How darkly and awfully will it look upon them!—If you shall be of that Company, how well may your Friends and Relations lament over you, and bemoan your dark and dangerous Circumstances!—If you would not be one of them, make haste, delay not, and look not behind you.— Shall all Sorts obtain, shall every one press into the Kingdom of God, while you stay loitering behind in a doleful, undone Condition? Shall every one take Heaven, while you remain with ⟨p. 16⟩no other Portion but this World? •ow take up that Resolution, th•• if it be possible you cleave to them that have fl•d for Refuge to lay hold of the Hope set before them Count the cost of a thorough, violent▪ and perpetual Pursuit of Salvation, and forsake all, as Ruth forsook her own Country, and all her pleasant Enjoyment in it Don't do as Orpha did; who set out, and then was discouraged, and went back:
5. Consider what a doleful Company that will be that be left after this extraordinary Time of Mercy is over. We have Reason to think that there will be a Number left. We read that when Ezekiel's healing Waters increased so abundently, and the healing Effect of them was so very general; yet there were certain Places where the Waters came, that never were healed. Eze. 47.9, 10.11. And it shall come to pass, that every Thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the Rivers come, shall live. And there be a very great Maltitude of Fish, because these Waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed, and every Thing shall live, whither the River cometh. And it shall come to pass, that the Fishers shall stand upon it, from En-gedi, even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a Place to spread forth Nets: There Fish shall be according to their Kinds, as the Fish of the Great Sea, exceeding many. But the miry Places thereof, and the Marshes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be given to Salt. And even in the Apostles Times, when there was such wonderful Success of the Gospel, yet wherever they came there were some that did not believe. Acts 13.48. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the Word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal Life believed. And Chap. 28.24 And some believed, and some believed not. So we have no Reason to expect, but there will be some left amongst us. 'Tis to be hoped it will be but a small Company: But what a doleful Company will it be! How darkly and awfully will it look upon them!—If you shall be of that Company, how well may your Friends and Relations lament over you, and bemoan your dark and dangerous Circumstances!—If you would not be one of them, make haste, delay not, and look not behind you.— Shall all Sorts obtain, shall every one press into the Kingdom of God, while you stay loitering behind in a doleful, undone Condition? Shall every one take Heaven, while you remain with ⟨p. 16⟩no other Portion but this World? •ow take up that Resolution, th•• if it be possible you cleave to them that have fl•d for Reinge to lay hold of the Hope set before them Count the cost of a thorough, violent▪ and perpetual Pursuit of Salvation, and forsake all, as Ruth forsook her own Country, and all her pleasant Enjoyment in it Don't do as Orpha did; who set out, and then was discouraged, and went back:
