without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1.17 God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory honour and immortality Eternal Life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath Romans 2.6 7 8. Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 The heart of this people is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes have they closed least they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them Act. 28.27 Save your selves from this untoward Generation Act. 2.40 Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out Act. 3.19 Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 18.3 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luk. 13.3 5. Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God Joh. 3.3 Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. Heb. 12.14 Neither is there Salvation in any other but Christ for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved Act. 4.12 He that believeth on him is not conlemned but he that believeth not is condemned already Joh. 3.18 There is no condemnation to them â—â—at are in Christ Jesus who walk not â—fter the flesh but after the Spirit â—om 8.1 To be carnally minded is death â—â—t to be spiritually minded is Life and â—eace Ver. 6. If ye live after the â—esh ye shall dye but if ye by the â—pirit do mortifie the deeds of the Body ye shall live Ver. 13. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adulteries Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like They which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5.19 c. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Romans 8.9 If any man be in Christ he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.17 They that are Christ's have Crucified the Flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. Love not the world nor the things that are in the world For if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 Joh. 5.4 Let him that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 11.19 By this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not Righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Joh. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13.13 14. If any man come to me and hate not his Father and Mother and Wife and Children and Brethren and Sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple Luk. 14.26 If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his Cross and follow me Matthew 16.24 For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul Ver. 26. The Grace of God which bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly Righteously and Godly in this present world Looking for that blessed hope and the Glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.11 12. c. Ye are all the children of the light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober 1 Thes 5.5 6. How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation Hebrews 2.3 If the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the finner appear 1 Pet. 4.18 The Tryal of a Christian's State IT highly concerns me to examine and try whether I be in a State of Sin or in a State of Grace that if I be in the former I may hasten out of it to escape damnation and if in the later I may bless God for his goodness and go on to Salvation Now thus I must try my self If I understand so much of GOD as that I do really esteem and value Him his grace and love above all the world and am heartily willing to take Him alone for my portion counting him enough though for him I should lose all the world besides If my care and delight be to do his Will and my chief rejoycing be in his love and my heart's desire and longing be to enjoy him more fully in Heaven If to this end I apply my self to Jesus Christ trusting in him alone for Eternal Life in the presence of God and giving my self intirely to be governed by him willing to obey his Laws whatsoever it shall cost me though it be with the loss of all worldly advantages and earthly pleasures and even Life it self If I can for his sake love enemies bear wrongs forbear revenge mortifie lusts and passions bridle my appetite disregard my own will and pleasure endure shame and reproach lose wealth friends and liberty yea and life too If I watch as narrowly over my heart affections and thoughts as over my outward actions and earnestly desire more than any worldly treasure to be throughly renewed and cleansed by the Holy Spirit from all inward corruptions If I hate every sin in my self and strive all I can against it and am restless till I conquer it and troubled at my heart at my own imperfections longing to be freed from them If I really delight and find pleasure in the worship and service of God and do not come forcedly and constrainedly to it as rather willing to do otherwise if I durst if I find holiness and obedience sweet and pleasant and no burden or wearisomness to me If I can and do heartily resign my self to God not minding what I naturally would have or do nor what any thing else would perswade me to but meerly what is the will of God and going on cheerfully to do his will pray fervently for his assistance and cast my self confidently on his mercy through Jesus Christ for Salvation If I find this in my self my state is comfortable and good But on the contrary If I yet
what he is the same for ever God is Almighty able to do all things Omniscient knowing all things infinitely Wise in ordering all things God is Infinitely good and the Fountain of all goodness Holy and Just and Merciful God is self-sufficient perfectly blessed and happy in himself alone needing nothing but Infinite in all perfections The Father begetting the Son the Son begotten of the Father the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son are Three Persons but one uncompounded undivided GOD blessed for ever God is the Maker or Creator of all things the Preserver and Vpholder of all things God is the absolute Owner and Lord of all things God is our Soveraign King Supream Law-giver and Righteous Judge God is our chief good and loving Father and bountiful Benefactor All Life and Power and Wisdom come from God and our final rest and perfect happiness is in Him alone God is a most free Agent and doth what and when and how he will In the Beginning by his Word of his own good pleasure he made the World and all things in six dayes when before there was nothing but Himself All that God made was very good God by his Providence preserveth ruleth and ordereth all things great and small There is no goodness in any thing but what God giveth nothing can come to pass but as God permitteth it God may justly do what he will with every thing he can do no wrong to any thing he ordereth the whole course of the World wisely and for the best God made an innumerable company of Angels or pure Spirits A great multitude of these Angels continue holy and happy in loving praising and enjoying God doing his Commandments and serving him in such Ministries as he pleaseth to employ them in for the good of his people Many of the Angels did sin and were cast down to Hell into Everlasting torments These are Devils under Beelzebub the Prince of Devils the Old Serpent and Satan The Devil is the Spirit that worketh in the children of Disobedience the Father of Evil-doers going about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour God made Adam the first man of the Dust of the Earth and the first woman Eve of a Rib of Adam Man hath two parts a Body of Flesh and Bones and a Soul which is a Spirit God made Man after his own Image he gave him an Immortal soul endued with understanding a free will and a power to do good and authority to rule and use the creatures for such ends as God designed them God made not man a Lawless creature to live as it should list him but God made him for himself and to serve him in Holy Love and perfect Obedience Man understood God's Will and that Will understood was the Law in his heart whereby he was to live Knowing God to be his Owner and Governour and chief good he was bound to resign himself to his disposal submit himself to his command and to delight himself in him above all If Man had done thus he should never have dyed but have lived for ever happy in the love and enjoyment of God God having placed man in the garden of Eden gave him free leave to eat of all the Trees thereof only excepting the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil which upon pain of death he charged him not to eat of But the Devil in a Serpent Tempted Eve and by her he tempted Adam to eat thereof and so sin against God in breaking his command By breaking God's Law they lost their Holiness and became Mortal under the curse of Death hearkening to the Devil they fell under his power loving their own pleasure more than God they lost their Happiness Thus they who were made Wise and Powerful and Happy made themselves foolish and weak and miserable We are all the children of sinful Adam and of unholy Parents are born unholy ignorant of God our duty and our happiness dead to goodness forward to evil easily conquered by the temptations of the Devil the World and the Flesh and if left to our selves must perish Everlastingly If God had punished Adam according to his sin with death He had cut off Mankind from the Earth But he was graciously pleased to shew mercy God suffered man to live for a time upon Earth but so as he might be sensible of the great evil he had brought upon himself by breaking God's Commandment The creatures are accursed to bring forth for him vanity and trouble and vexation hard labour pains and sicknesses come upon his body he becomes ashamed of himself and is filled with terrors of Conscience and having struggled through many evils and difficulties must at last dye and return to dust Yet God opened unto him a new way to Eternal happiness after death in such a way as to magnifie his Love and Mercy to Mankind and manifest his hatred of sin and Zeal for the keeping of his Laws that he might at once shew grace to the Offender and secure the honour of his just government God did graciously promise that a man should be born of a woman who should conquer the Devil and deliver man from his Tyranny and give such satisfaction unto God's Justice that for his sake all they should be Eternally happy that would accept of him for their Saviour Accordingly God so loved the world that he gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting Life God the Son took to himself our humane nature Soul and Body and was made truly man yet ceased not to be truly God but is both God and Man in one Person God manifested in the Flesh He was wonderfully made Man by being Born without all stain of sin of a pure Virgin called Mary who conceived him by the Divine power of the Holy Ghost when she had never known man An Angel from Heaven revealed his conception to the Blessed Virgin and commanded his name to be called Jesus because he was to save his people from their sins Being Born and Circumcised according to the Law he lived many years upon earth in an humble and low condition gave us an example to imitate in his Life doing the whole will of God and conquering all the temptations of the Devil and the World This is that Messia whom many Prophets had foretold the very CHRIST or anointed of the Lord to be a Prophet a Priest and a King and in this Threefold Office the Mediator of a New Covenant between God and Men. As a Prophet he hath in his Gospel and by his Apostles made known unto us all his Fathers will concerning our salvation and the way to it As a Priest he was Crucified and dyed under Pontius Pilate so offering himself once for all a perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins in consideration whereof God hath granted pardon and Life to all true Believers Being dead he was buried and wentiamong the dead
CHRISTIANITY in Short OR The way to be a good CHRISTIAN Recommended To the use of such as want either time or capacity for reading longer and Learneder discourses Mat. VII 13.14 Enter ye in at the strait Gate for wide is the Gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat Because strait is the Gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it Ver. 21. Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven By C. Ellis Author of the Gentile-sinner LONDON Printed for Tho. Guy at the Oxford Armes on the West side of the Royal Exchange 1682. To my Beloved Neighbours for whose Use this little Book is written My Dear Friends I Hope some of you need not much the help this little Book can afford and indeed it is a shame either for you or me that any of you should need it except Children Yet I fear it is too needful I pray God it may prove as useful to many of you I have often told you that neither an Ignorant nor a Carnal nor a Worldly nor a Formally Religious course of Life can ever bring you to Heaven I now â—ell it you again and at you love your Souls let me intreat you to believe me except you become other men than some of you yea than the most of you yet are you cannot be saved You have God's Word to read you may hear Sermons when you will you may be instructed privately when you will you have many good Books to instruct you you have so much sense as to know you are a dying you have understandings to consider what 's like to become of you you have sure the wit to know that all things here will have an end and that nothing can concern you so much as the Salvation of your Souls to all Eternity I am confident were you dying you would say so Can it be any thing then but a brutish inconsideration that keeps you in the state you are in Awake awake and see here in short what you have to do 'T is short that you may not plead you want time to read and learn it 'T is plain that you may not plead 't is above your capacity 't is cheap it shall cost you nothing but the pains of reading it for your instruction in the way of Life You will in a little room see what it is to be a Christian Practice then what here you read and then dye in Peace But if you slight these easie helps and will go on your old way I must leave you to God and comfort my self in this that I have not dealt deceitfully with you The good God make us all wise unto Salvation Amen Consider seriously Learn industriously Pray devoutly Believe firmly Repent sincerely Love unfeignedly Resolve deliberately Practice constantly Hope Patiently Receive Thankfully And Enjoy Eternally The Entrance into CHRISTIANITY I Must shortly dye and after death I must for ever be either endlesly happy or endlesly miserable It concerneth me therefore above all things in this short time of my Life so to prepare for Death that after Death I may be Eternally happy To this end two things are altogether necessary a sound Knowledge and a sincere Practice Two things are needful to be well known the End which I am to aim at and the Way which will lead me to it My daily practice must be to walk in the way in hopes of attaining the End What both these are JESVS CHRIST hath abundantly taught us in his Gospel which it therefore highly concerneth me diligently to read and learn Christ hath instituted two Sacraments the one for our entrance into the other for our confirmation and strengthning in the way of Life Baptism and the Supper of the Lord. In both these the whole substance of Christian Religion which is the way to happiness is summarily comprehended and represented Christ JESVS commanded his Apostles to go up and down in the World and by Preaching the Gospel to perswade men to be his Disciples and learn of him the way to Life He commanded them to admit men into his Church or the Society of his Disciples by Baptism or washing them with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost This Ceremony of Washing with water did signifie and assure them that as many as continued Christ's faithful followers were washed from the guilt of their past sins and should be daily more and more Sanctified and prepared for Eternal Glory Persons of years to understand were thus in Baptism to give up themselves in an Holy Bond or Covenant to God and thus my Parents when I was an Infant did give and dedicate me to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost In this Baptismal Covenant God the Father doth give himself to be our reconciled Father and God the Son Jesus Christ to be our Saviour and God the Holy Ghost to be our Sanctifier In the same Covenant we do accept of God the Father Son and Holy Ghost to be our only God submitting to him as our Owner and Governour and chusing him as our chief good and portion and heartily consenting to be taught and ruled made Holy and â—saved by him in a firm belief of his word and humble Obedience to his Lawes We do also promise and resolve not to follow nor be led by the Devil the World nor the Flesh but to watch against and resist all their temptations and to persevere so doing unto our lives end Every one that keepeth this Covenant sincerely is a good Christian and hath the pardon of his sins and Eternal Life sealed and assured unto him by God in this Sacrament of Baptism As I therefore desire to be Eternally happy and would avoid Everlasting Torments it concerneth me to see that I keep Covenant with God which I cannot do without learning and knowing what I am to believe and do If I have not already learn'd this it is no time now any longer to delay it seeing my Eternal happiness depends upon it And I know not how soon no not whether this night God may call me out of this world by death when if I be either ignorant or wicked I am undone Soul and Body for ever The Christian Faith THere is a GOD and but one God the FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST God is an infinite and most glorious SPIRIT a most pure and living substance without body parts or passions God is invisible cannot be seen or perceived by sense God is incomprehensible cannot be perfectly known by any but himself God is Immortal cannot dye Impassible and cannot suffer God is Immense not limited to place but is every where God is Eternal not limited by time but without beginning or end God is Independent not caused or governed by any other God is Immutable not subject to change but necessarily
and the Third day rose again to Life now to dye no more and having sealed the Covenant in his Blood he left instructions with his Apostles to admit men into it by Baptism and teach them how to keep it and promised them the gift of the Holy Ghost After some dayes he in their sight went up into Heaven and is glorified at God's Right-hand in Power and Majesty And as King ruleth and protecteth his Church Reigneth in the hearts of his subjects subdueth all his Enemies and is our Advecate with the Father rendering our persons and services accepted of him and prevaising for all good blessings on us Shortly after his Ascension on the day of Pemecost Christ sent the Holy Ghost the Eternal Spirit of the Father and the Son upon the Apostles to guide them into all saving truth to enable them to Preach to every Nation in its own Language to write the Holy Scriptures and to seal and confirm the truth of them by many Miracles and wonderful works and to encourage them to a constant suffering for Christ even unto death The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the very Word of God which Holy men of God spake and writ as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and they contain all things necessary to Salvation and are the standing Sealed Rule of Faith and Life The Holy Ghost is Christ's Advocate pleading his cause with men He is our Sanctifier enlightening opening softning changing and renewing our hearts and minds to receive and grow in knowledge and grace Making the word effectual for our conviction and conversion helping us to pray and stirring us up to goodness comforting us with a sense of its operations and strengthening us to withstand temptations and hold out in a Christian course unto the end All those that are regenerated enlightened and converted by the Holy Ghost are one Holy Church whereof Christ is the only Head All that outwardly profess Christianity and have been Baptized are to be accounded Holy by a visible separation and dedication to God till they cut themselves off by Schism or are justly cast out by Excommunication Christ's Church is not limited to any Nation or People but extends to all places is propagated in all Ages and containeth all saving truth and in this sense is Vniversal or Catholick All the Sanctified Members of this Mystical Body of Christ have Fellowship with the Father and Son by one Holy Spirit with Angels in their love care and Ministries with the glorified Saints in Heaven in their love and prayers and with one another on Earth in the same Faith and Hope and Love Word and Sacraments bound to hold the Vnity of the Spirit in the bond of peace All these have in consideration of Christ's satisfaction a full pardon of all past sins given of God and Sacramentally sealed unto them in Baptism with an assurance of final justification and Salvation upon condition of their perseverance in Repentance and Faith At death the souls of the faithful rest with God in peace and happiness and the souls of the wicked go into an endless state of misery The bodies of all men shall be raised again after death and shall be again united to their souls All men shall after the Resurrection appear before the Judgment seat of Christ where the wicked shall be condemned to Everlasting torments but the Righteous shall be finally acquitted and go into Everlasting Life and Joy happy in the constant and perfect love of God praising him delighting in him amongst all Blessed Angels and Saints to all Eternity The heads of the Christian's Duty IF any man would be saved he must first be born again of the Holy Spirit be converted and become a new creature Holy in Heart and Life otherwise he cannot enter in the Kingdom of God The grace of God hath appeared teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly and Righteously and Godly in this present World I must not think my self to be my own so that I may live as I list but must humbly acknowledge there is a God above me whose I am and whom I am bound to serve all the dayes of my Life I must take the true God alone for my God even the Father Son and Holy Ghost and worship him as my Maker Redeemer and Sanctifier I must by a daily diligent reading studying and meditating on his word and considering of his works labour get a true knowledge of God and not content my self in ignorance of him I must worship God in Spirit and in Truth with the heart and soul sincerely I must stedfastly believe the whole Word of God the History for my instruction the Precepts for my direction the Promises for my encouragement the threatnings to affright me from sin bewaring of all temptations to unbelief or a false Faith I must live in a patient expectation and hope of what God hath promised neither despairing of mercy if I repent nor presuming of Mercy if I repent not I must love God as the chief good with the highest love chusing him for my only portion delighting in him as my only comfort willing to part with Life it self to enjoy him and making light of all things so I may please him loving his Image as far as I see it in every man especially in Jesus Christ my Saviour It is my duty to stand in awe of God's threatnings and judgments and to be very cautious and circumspect in all my wayes watching over my thoughts words and actions fearing to offend him in any thing neither fearing nor loving any thing else so much as to venture upon the least sin I must intirely trust and confide in God both in all wants and dangers whether of Soul or Body Conscientiously using such means as he alloweth Praying devoutly unto him for his Blessing and casting all my care for the success upon him not doubting of his never failing power and goodness I must walk humbly before God thinking meanly of my self renouncing all my own worth or merits acknowledging all that I am have or hope for to be of his gift taking patiently and thankfully all his chastisements and labouring to profit by them and confessing that he doth all things wisely and well I must behave my self uprightly and sincerely as in his presence and do all I do as unto him with a pure heart avoiding all guile dissimulation and hypocrisie not indulging the least evil thought inclination or desire keeping up high and honourable thoughts of him and preserving my Conscience tender and my heart soft and easie to take the impressions of his word and spirit I must shun all gross representations of God or likening him so much as in my thoughts to any creature I am not to worship him after my own conceit or fancy but according to the rules he hath given in his word not with a formal but a spiritual worship drawing near unto him in Prayer and praise and all his
him resolvedly willing to resign and give my self up unto him to be governed wholly by him stedfastly believing and trusting in his power to save and bless me and his willingness to receive me for his own adopted child in Jesus Christ Yet I must remember the greatness of his Divine Majesty and the infinite distance betwixt a powerful wise and good God in Heaven and me a weak foolish and sinful worm of the Earth and so come with all humble reverence falling down at his feet in a devout Adoration of his Majesty longing to be made more Holy and Heavenly that I may be capable of a nearer Communion with him I must first heartily desire that all the World may give him the glory due unto his Name That He may be more perfectedly known and loved and honoured by men and that in his Person his Name his Attributes his Word his Day his Ordinances his Ministers and all his children That he may be chosen and Magnified as the supream good have the chief place in our hearts and affections and glorified in the World by our Godly lives I must next pray that the Yoak of sin may be broken off and we freed from the Tyranny of Satan that we may joyfully own and submit to the authority of God That Christ's Church may flourish and be enlarged on earth and that the Civil Powers may cherish and protect it that the Power and malice of it's enemies may be restrained and frustrated that Christ may rule by his Spirit in our hearts subduing our Corruptions and ruling us in the way of Godliness that we may earnestly long for and diligently prepare for and patiently wait for and finally enter into God's Kingdome of glory I must in the 3 d. place pray That men may not make the will of the devil the Customs of the world or their own inclinations and appetites but the will of God alone the rule of their lives That we may all sincerely obey his commands and submit to his wisdome and rest in his government That we may alwaies endeavour after the perfection of duty and as the Holy Angels of Heaven rejoyce and delight in an Holy Obedience My next petition is That I may have all things needfull to preserve this life till I be fitted for a better That we may have health and Strength to serve God and other outward good things as they are expedient that we may be free from the temptations of riches or poverty contented with our present portion and wise to use it piously and Charitably That God would prosper our honest labours keep us from immoderate cares and desires from all idleness and intemperance In the next place I pray that God would grant us soft hearts and repentance unto life a perfect hatred of sin and power to leave it That He would through Christ forgive all our sins original and actual and grant us grace in thankfulness to him to forgive all that offend us and to return good for evil Lastly That God would enable us to watch against and manfully to resist all temptations that they may never prevail with us to do evil that he would frustrate all the malicious designs of the devil and all our enemies and protect us by his grace that we may persevere in obedience to our lives end I conclude my Prayers with ascribing unto God the honour of all his works acknowledging his Dominion and Soveraignty over all and my self happy in being his Subject his infinite power and my self happy in being under his protection I acknowledge all things to be from him our total dependance to be upon him and that the glory of all goodness is due unto him I desire this may by all the World be acknowledged for evermore And with all hearty desire and filial confidence to all this I say Amen So be it The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper CHrist Jesus hath instituted the night before he was betrayed a solemn Sacrament and Christian Feast to be celebrated by Christians even till his coming again in remembrance of him The outward matter to be received is Bread and Wine signifying the Body and Blood of Christ as the food and refreshment of our Souls The Bread is Blessed-broken and given to be received and eaten by us The Wine likewise Blessed poured out and given to be received and drunk by us to signifie that Christ was Consecrated and Crucified his body wounded his blood shed for our sins and that he giveth himself Crucified to be received and believed on as our Spiritual nourishment and comfort All that preparedly receive the Bread and Wine do with it really receive Christ Crucified and with him the pardon of their sins and Assurance of Eternal Life scaled a new unto them in this Sacrament for the confirming of their Faith and growth in Grace We joyn in the celebration of this Feast to signifie that we though many are yet Members of one Body the Church joyned unto one Head Jesus Christ whose Death and Sacrifice we unanimously commemorate with all thankfulness Professing that we all own the same Lord the same Faith the same Laws and are to live in love peace and holiness as the Members of the same body He that Communicateth in this Sacrament unworthily is accounted by God as guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ That we may avoid this guilt we must examine our selves whether we discern the Lord's Body and understand what he gives there unto us and what we there come to do We are also to examine how we keep our Baptismal Covenant of Repentance Faith and New Obedience and if we find our selves truly thankful for the Blessing of our Redemption by Jesus Christ If we find our selves sincere Christians resolving to keep Covenant with God we are there to renew our Covenant most seriously praising God in Christ for this inestimable priviledge rejoycing in his Salvation and so go our way and sin no more Some Texts of Scripture often and seriously to be Read and thought on IT is appointed unto men once to dye but after this the Judgment Heb. 9.27 Go to now ye that say to day or to morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow For what is your Life it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away Jam. 4.13 14. Behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of Salvation 2 Cor. 6.2 To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 4.7 Remember now thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth Ecclesiastes 12.1 We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men 2 Cor. 5.11 If you call on the Father who