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no Pleafures, when that appears."--0 could you borrow for a Moment the Knowiedge of departed Spirits! Had you but once tafted the Pleafures of God's right Hand, the Joys of that State which the Wisdom of the infinite Creator hath contrived, and his Almighty Power hath formed for

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the Happiness of his Friends and People! Or did you know by Experience, what is. known now only in Apprehenfion, but fo felt in the Expectation, as to make all prefent Woe of no Account, when compared to it; ---could you but fee the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone ;---could you behold the Apoítate Angels and Rebel Spirits that are weltring in it's Flames --could you hear their inceffant Wailings, and be Witneffes to their inconfolable Defpair ---you would wang no Arguments to convince you, what littley Caufe you have to envy Sinners, and what abundant Reason there is to be constant in the Fear of God, to be fedfaft and abounding

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Thefe are awful Truths, difagreeable to Joy Negr fome Minds undoubtedly, but the more neceffary to be told for that Reason. If you have chofen the good Part, and are feeking after it in the Earneftnefs of your Souls, there is then to you no Subject of Fear. If indeed this Cafe unhappily is not your's; if, on the contrary, you have caft in your Lot with Sinners, refolved to fhare in their Pleafures, and to take your Fate with them at laft--fhall the Truth therefore be fuppressed? Shall I in this Cafe prophesy Smooth Things? Shail I prophefy Deceit ? Shall I fay Peace, when God and Reafon fay, there is no Peace? This were vile and abominable, an Act of Treaton against God and Man. Would God! the Truth would always per mit us to say every Thing, that is pleafing. But he cannot be your Enemy furely, that earnestly

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X 2 HOS earnestly warns you of your Danger. When you are walking in the Imagination of your own Heart, and there is but a Step between you and Death, certainly he cannot be your Friend, who is filent, or who fays," fhall have Peace, and no Evil fhall come upon you. May God open your Ear to Inftruction! May you fee your Danger, and

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fly from it! May you difcern your true Interefts, and earnestly pursue after them! May you confider your whole felves, your Souls as well as Bodies, and your whole Duration, not only in this World, but in the other, not only with regard to Time, but alfo to the End of Time, and the Days of Eternity ---May the Spirit of Chrift's Religion poffefs our Hearts; and may God graciously enable us to prepare effectually for the End of all Things, fo to believe and fo to live, fo to abound in the Works of God, that in the great Day of Trial we may be able to give Account of the Things done in the Body with Joy and not with Grief Desta

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SERMON XII.

PSALM XC. 12.

So teach us to number our Days, that we may apply our Hearts unto Wifdom.

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OR the better understanding of this Pfalm it must be remembered, that, when the Ifraelites in the Wilderness had murmured against their Almighty Conducter, and provoked him by their Difbelief of his Power and Goodnefs, God was grieved with that Generation, and the Hardness of their Hearts, and paffed a Sentence upon all from twenty Years old and upward, that they should E e 2 certainly

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