Application

be? Hear Davids Answer to that Question, in 1 Chron. 28. 15. Our days on Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none abiding: Let James answer it, in Jam. 4. 14. What is your Life? it is even a Vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and vanishes away: Let Jo• answer it, in Job. 9. 25. My days are swifter than a Post; they are passed away as the swift Ships; as an Eagle that hastens to the Prey. Our Age is now contracted into Seventy Years, and how few reach to Seventy, in comparison of them that never see Twenty of them! Besides, a big part of our few days are already past and gone with many of us: How many may sadly sit and sigh and say this day, I have been here but a little while, yet I cannot now be so long more, as I have already been!

be? Hear Davids Answer to that Question, in 1 Chron. 28. 15. Our days on Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none abiding: Let James answer it, in Jam. 4. 14. What is your Life? it is even a Vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and vanishes away: Let Jo• answer it, in Job. 9. 25. My dayes are swifter than a Post; they are passed away as the swift Ships; as an Eagle that hastens to the Prey. Our Age is now contracted into Seventy Years, and how few reach to Seventy, in comparison of them that never see Twenty of them! Besides, a big part of our few dayes are already past and gone with many of us: How many may sadly sit and sigh and say this day, I have been here but a little while, yet I cannot now be so long more, as I have already been!

Consider, 2. If God then take us not, who will? I have read of a profane Monster who on one side of his Sword had the Picture of Christ, on the other side the Picture of the Devil; with this Motto under it, Si tu non vis, iste rogitat: If He won't Take me, here's One that will. Horrid Creature! But that Frenzy is almost equalled among us, by those that wish the Devil to take them every day: Alas! that, that will be the horrible Destruction of