N29779:117
A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity…
A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity into which all men must enter, when they go out of time. II. That we should eye eternity, and look at eternal things. III. That this looking ought to have an influence upon us, in all that we do. / By Tho. Doolittle. ; [Two lines from Matthew]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet and T. Crump for Nicholas Buttolph, 1715
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
11. Such an Eyeing of Eternity would make you serious and lively in all your spiritual duties in all your approaches unto God: If you have no Grace, the serious thoughts of the unseen Eternal World, would stir you up to beg and cry and call for it; if you have to desire more, and to exercise what you have; to confess your sin with such contrite broken penitent ⟨p. 69⟩hearts, as though you saw the •ire burning, which by your sins you have deserved to be cast into: To beg for Christ, and Sanctifying Grace, and pardoning Mercy with that lively Importunity, as if you saw the Lake of boiling Brimstone, into which you must be cast, if you be not sanctified and pardoned; to hear the Word of God that sets this Eternal World before you, with that diligent attention, as Men hearkening for their Lives; to commemorate the Death of Christ with such life while you are at the Lords Supper, while you do as it were see the Torments you are delivered from and the Eternal Happiness by Faith in a Crucified Christ you have a Title to, it will cause a fire and flame of Love in your Hearts to that Lord that dyed for you, ardent desires after him, complacential delight in him, thankfulness, hope of Heaven, hatred to sin, resolution to live to, or die for him that died for you: If your Hearts are dead and dull, and out of frame, go and look into the unseen Eternal World; take a believing view of Everlasting Joys and Torments on the other side of time, and you shall feel ⟨p. 70⟩warmth and heat, and lively actings to be produced in you.
11. Such an Eyeing of Eternity would make you serious and lively in all your spiritual duties in all your approaches unto God: If you have no Grace, the serious thoughts of the unseen Eternal World, would stin you up to beg and cry and call for it; if you have to desire more, and to exercise what you have; to confess your sin with such contrite broken penitent ⟨p. 69⟩hearts, as though you saw the •ire burning, which by your sins you have deserved to be cast into: To beg for Christ, and Sanctifying Grace, and pardoning Mercy with that lively Importunity, as if you saw the Lake of boiling Brimstone, into which you must be cast, if you be not sanctified and pardoned; to hear the Word of God that sets this Eternal World before you, with that diligent attention, as Men heakning for their Lives; to commemorate the Death of Christ with such life while you are at the Lords Supper, while you do as it were see the Torments you are delivered from and the Eternal Happiness by Faith in a Crucified Christ you have a Title to, it will cause a fire and flame of Love in your Hearts to that Lord that dyed for you, ardent desires after him, complacential delight in him, thankfulness, hope of Heaven, hatred to sin, resolution to live to, or die for him that died for you: If your Hearts are dead and dull, and out of frame, go and look into the unseen Eternal World; take a believing view of Everlasting Joyes and Torments on the other side of time, and you shall feel