as for inftance, can they affirm Religion to be that, which has got fuch Hold of their Hearts, that no Time, Coft, or Labour fhall be thought too much to be laid out upon it? Is it the Prize they run for? Is it the Thing they delight in? The Thing, with which in all their Diftreffes, they support and keep up their finking Spirits? And lastly, is it that, which they value to fuch a Degree, as to be willing to part with all the World, rather than lose, or renounce it? These are great Things I confefs, and yet nothing less will reach the Measures of Christianity.

But the Lives of Men (unanswerable Arguments in this Cafe) are a fad Demonftration, how few they are, who come up to thefe Terms. Men may, indeed, now and then bestow some fcattering Thoughts upon their Souls, and their Future Eftate, provided they be at full Leifure from their Business, and their Sports, (which they feldom or never are;) and if, at any Time, they should be fo, this could amount to no more, than their being religious, when they have nothing elfe to do. Likewife, when the folemn Return's of God's Publick Worship, and the Law and Custom of the Nation fhall call them off from their daily Employments to better Things,

Things, they may perhaps, by a few devout Looks and Words, put on fomething of an Holy-Day-Drefs for the prefent; which yet like their Sunday-Cloaths, they are fure to lay afide again for the whole Week after. All which and a great deal more, is far fhort of making Religion a Man's Business; though yet if it be not fo, it is in Effect nothing.

And this, Men know well enough, when they are to deal in Matters of this World; in which, no Pains, nor Importunity shall be thought too great, no Attendance too fervile, nothing (in a word) too hard to be done or fuffered, either to recruit a broken Fortune, or to regain a difgufted Friend; though after all, should a Man chance to recover both, he cannot be sure of keeping either. In like manner, let the trading Perfon fuffer any confiderable Damage in the Stock, with which he trades; what Care, what Parfimony, what Art fhall be used to make up the Breach, and keep the Shop ftill open? And the Reason of all this, is, because the Man is in carneft, in what he does, and accordingly, acts as one who is fo. Whereas, in Mens fpiritual Affairs, look all the World over, and you fhall every Day fee, that the Sins which wound and wafte, and make Ha

vock of the Confcience, which divide and cut it off from God, are committed easily, and paffed over lightly, and owned confidently; with a bold Front, and a brazen Face, able to look the Pillory itself out of Countenance; nor does any one, almost, think himself so mortally ftruck, even by the fouleft Guilt, as to need the Balfam of an immediate Repentance; and a prefent fuing out of Pardon at the Throne of Grace. And yet, if a Man dies, as to his temporal Condition, poor and bankrupt, he is not at all the worfe; but if he goes out of the World unreconciled to God, it had been good for him, that he had never come into it. For what can it avail a Man to pass from Mifery to Mifery, and to make one wretched Life only a Preparative to another?

In fine, this we may with great Boldness venture to affirm, that if Men would be at half the Pains to provide themselves Treafures in Heaven, which they are generally at to gt Eftates here on Earth, it were impoffible for any Man to be damned. But when we come to earthly Matters, we do; when to heavenly, we only difcourfe: Heaven has our Tongue and Talk; 'but the Earth our whole Man besides.

Nevertheless, let Men reft affured of this, that God has fo ordered the great Business of their eternal Happiness, that their Affections muft ftill be the Fore-runners of their Per-: fons, the constant Harbingers appointed by God to go, and take Poffeffion of those glorious Manfions for them; and confequently, That no Man fhall ever come to Heaven himSelf, who has not fent his Heart thither before him. For where this leads the Way, the other will be fure to follow.

Now to him, who alone is the great Judge of Hearts, and Rewarder of Perfons, be render'd and afcribed, as is moft due, all Praife, Might, Majefty, and Dominion, both now and for evermore. Amen.

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