N29779:91
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But this damnable preferring things Temporal, and cursed post-poning things Eternal, is the setting of God in the room of the Creature, and the Creature in the Throne of God, as if they would set the heavens where the Earth doth stand, & the Earth where the Heavens are, & so subvert the order of things which God hath appointed to be observed in the Nature of things,
4. Look heedfully at Eternity. All the things that are only for time, are toys and trifles: the Things for an Eternal World are the grand concerns we should narrowly look to in time; the gathering of Riches in time to the getting of Grace, and an interest in Christ for the escaping of Damnation, and obtaining of Happiness to Eternity is busy Idleness, careful Negligence, and laborious Sloth. If God that inhabiteth Eternity looks narrowly ⟨p. 43⟩to all our actions done in time. Joh. 13.27. how narrowly should we look to our own, when every one is a step to Everlasting Happiness, or Eternal Misery? We should look narrowly that we do not walk in the broad way that leads unto the one, but in the narrow that will bring us to the other. Mat. 7.13, 14.
4. Look heedfully at Eternity. All the things that are only for time, are toyes and trifles: the Things for an Eternal World are the grand concerns we should narrowly look to in time; the gathering of Riches in time to the getting of Grace, and an interest in Christ for the escaping of Damnation, and obtaining of Happiness to Eternity is busie Idleness, careful Negligence, and laborious Sloth. If God that inhabiteth Eternity looks narrowly ⟨p. 43⟩to all our actions done in time. Joh. 13.27. how narrowly should we look to our own, when every one is a step to Everlasting Happiness, or Eternal Misery? We should look narrowly that we do not walk in the broad way that leads unto the one, but in the narrow that will bring us to the other.