bitter pill candyed over with sugar a golden cup like the whores in the Revelation full of dismall and deadly poyson No marvell then that the Prophets Princes and Preachers of the world have left behinde them such lamentable notes and votes of their wearisomnesse in the experience of things here below Jeremy that Prophet of Lamentations cryeth Oh that mine head were a well of waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the Daughter of my people O that I had in the wildernesse a lodging place of waifaring men that I might leave my people and goe from them for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men I recommend the whole chapter to the reading and meditation of every sober Christian to fit his soule and tune his heart to the wofull tone of this tumultuous Sea-world David a King tunes his pipes with this dolefull Ditty O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I flee away and be at rest Loe then would I wander farre of and remaine in the wildernesse I would hasten mine escape from this worlds windy storme and tempest Paul the Preacher of the Gentiles exclaimes and sayes O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death And had he not found a deliverer he had sunk under that bitter agony You will further enquire Why the passages of this world are ever so transitory and brittle I answer briefly This fretfull Sea of glasse is like an angry Lady that will turne away her servant for a very Glasse breaking And why are they never satisfactory For that the heart of man is a triangle and the world is a circle and a circle can never fill a triangle Nothing in this world can satisfie mans triangle heart but the holy blessed and glorious Trinity One touch of the Power of God the Father one glimpse of the rayes of the wisdome of God the Sonne in whom are hid all the Treasures of wisdome and knowledge and one drop of the gift and grace of charity from God the Holy Ghost satisfies contents and cheeres the whole nature of the regenerate man But why are all the passages of this world alwayes open and overt to the sight and censure of the eternall God How can it be otherwise It is impossible but that he that made the eye should see Shall not he that made the heart shall not he I say understand When the whole world before his Throne is Crystalline open naked and diaphanous to the Lord our God His all-seeing eyes see and discerne the imaginations of the thoughts of every mans heart that liveth Shall I request this favour at your hands That you would be pleased to turne to the first chapter of Johns Gospel and read from the 45. v. to the end of the Chapter and observe and meditate of that heavenly conference there between Jesus Christ our blessed Saviour Philip of Bethsaida and Nathanael Philip findeth Nathanial and saith unto him Wee have found the Messias Come and see Jesus saw Nathanael comming unto him and said Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile Nathanael saith unto him Whence knowest thou me Jesus answered and said unto him Before that Philip called thee when thou wast under the fig-tree I saw thee Nathanael is ravished and cryes out Rabbi Thou art the Sonne of God thou art the King of Israel Many there knew Nathanael to be an Israelite but none saving the Lord Jesus knew him to be such an Israelite in whom was no guile Thus farre have I spoken unto your heads in the Doctrinall part of my Proposition Give me now leave to speake to your hearts in the practick part thereof and so I shall incline toward an end The first Use of the Doctrine is of heavenly affection tending to earnestnesse of zeale and longing after Heaven Forasmuch as we finde nothing here below but a Sea restlesse a brittle being and a slippery standing What are we or who are we here present this day and understanding what the frame fashion and garbe of this world is by the sacred Oracle of the text and would not now cry out with Esay to our God in Heaven Oh that thou wouldest rend the Heavens that thou wouldest come downe that the Mountaines might melt at thy presence and that the Nations might tremble at thy power What are mountaines here but the mighty in the earth that set themselves against the Lord Bow thy Heavens O Lord and come down touch the Mountaines and they shall smoak Yea bee the mountaines never so vast so lofty so exalted above measure one touch of his finger shall shake them all to pieces Yea though a rebellious Absolon that had swelled against his Father like to an Olympus God commeth down in his power and gives him but a touch and he and his haughty Rebellion passeth away in a smoake that vanisheth hee hangs between heaven and earth as unworthy of either and all his swelling presently abates like a blown bladder with the pricke of a pin 1. To my Brethren of the Ministry here present I speak and beseech you to preach to this decaying world That we all in it wax old as doth a garment and as a vesture God wil change us and we shall be changed but he is the same yesterday to day and for ever and his yeers shall have no end 2. To the Laicks I say this It is an observation of the Physicians that we are now of shorter stature and of lesse livelihood then heretofore 3. Is there an Astronomer here tell him that Stadius Copernicus and Reinoldus affirm peremptorily that the very Heavens are decayed the Sun lesse orient in his splendour the Moone more pale and the Starres more dimme 4. Art thou a Muck-worme Know that Philip Melancthon a choice Divine in his time being contemporary with Martin Luther left this observation behinde him That the earth is growne so old that it is like a wombe barren with age 5. To whomsoever here present that hath any Christian sense and feeling I would have him know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in paine together untill now And not onely they but wee our selves which have the first fruits of the Spirit even we our selves groane within our selves waiting for our full and finall redemption as Paul preacheth 6. Haply there may bee here present some Jesuite or Jesuited spirit whose learning lyes all in the Directories of Machiavels Prince Bodins Commentaries and Lypsius Politiques whose Primer is couched in this one principle Religentem esse oportet religiosum nefas Let me tell that Statizer I am no Platonist whose learning is hid in finall and fatall numbers affirming that no State ever continued above 500. yeeres without some fearefull fate or finall fall But ay me we understand better by experience of times past that that Principle is not true as
Justice Judgement and other Regall Royall and Princely Prerogatives yet they and we all with all the world shall appeare before the glorious throne of Jesus Christ to give an account of what we have done here in our bodies be it good or evill Why is the world set out by a sea For that it is restlesse as the sea is Why a sea of glasse For that it is brittle like glasse The world is as made of glasse Ubi splendet frangitur where it is more shining resplendent there it soonest cracks and breaks And lastly why resembled to crystall For two respects The first in relation to the men of the world who are gull'd and deceived by it the world seeming unto them to be all crystalline when God knowes and all godly ones finde by experience that it is glassie slippery brittle and no preciousnesse in it at all The second is in relation to God Crystall is transparent we all know how much more is this world and all the things of this world with all the actions transactions words and the very imaginations of the thoughts of all mens hearts are open overt and obvious to the knowledge sight of the great Jehovah Jireth who ordereth them all according to the counsell of his most sacred and secret will I will spend no more precious time in spelling of the Text you now I conceive it understand it as well as my selfe The point of Doctrine that I learne out of this Text in the Result of it is couched in this short breviate and proposition All the passages of this world wherein we live are very dangerous as a Sea ever transitory brittle and slippery as a sea of glasse never satisfactorie albeit it glitter and shine like crystall and ever open overt obvious and transparent to the sight and censure of Almighty God be they couched never so hellishly deep though they be sunk even to the deeps of the devill Accommodate me I desire you with your Christian patience but for the space of one houre and by that time by Gods favour I shall quit this glassie sea and shew you the Port of our happinesse Heaven And give me leave in the Doctrinall part to speak freely to your heads and in the Practique to put it home to your hearts by the evidence of the Word contained in the holy lines of sacred Scripture and in the power of the Spirit according to the modell of that knowledge of God that he hath imparted unto me The first piece of my Doctrinall part is thus That the passages of this world are passing dangerous as a sea proved and expressed in foure resemblances First in respect that this world as the sea is subject to sundry and frequent stormes You all know what storming is It is grown a Military terme Such a City Town Cittadell and Castle was stormed 1. Daniels Vision shews it Daniel spake and said I saw in my vision by night and behold the foure winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea That is to say 1. The South wind of prosperity What is there any storme in that Oh how many and mighty puft up with the pomp of this world doe forget God and have their portion with the wicked who shall be turned into hell and with them all the people that forget God! 2. The storme of adversity caused by the North-wind of affliction deeps and distresses oh how many and mighty hath that wind sunk Saint Augustine was accustomed to say to such as came unto him for advise support and counsell in severall disgusts of conscience Assuredly my friends through hoping and despairing the sonnes and daughters of men doe miserably perish by hoping foolishly and cursedly all their life that all shall be wel with them albeit they walk in the stubbornnesse of their own hearts against all the blessed means and motions of Gods blessed Word and Spirit and despairing like hel-hounds in the end of their dayes 3. There may come a storme out of the East neither good for man nor beast and yet may be an especiall inspiration of some common grace Christ hath pronounced a blessing to the pure in heart for they shall see God O blessed Puritanes They doe see God already in his Works and Word and shall see him hereafter in a beatifical vision But what say you to this of the Wiseman in his Proverbs There is a generation pure in their owne conceit and yet are not purged and purified from their wickednesse 4. Yea the case may so fal out that all the rest of the winds may breathe fairely and yet on a sudden a black cloud and storm may appeare out of the West and overset all In briefe a Disgust may arise out of all the 32. points of the Seamans Compasse and Chard and ruine us in this sea of the world in a trice be we never so conceited of our safety and assurance The second passage is That this sea of the world is very and passing dangerous in respect of the many and manifold rocks shelves syrtes and sands that lye hid and covered in the Sea The Divine shewes you a map of this world points to it saying All that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but of the world What all things in this world Yea all Behold I will shew a truth The Astronomers conceit that the heavens are turned upon the two Poles to wit the Artique and Antartique Poles I admire not their conceit this I am sure I know and we all here are experienced in that all the actions affections imaginations of the thoughts of all men and women tend either to profit or pleasure or both Oh how many for these ends and purposes have runne themselves upon the rocks of witlesse and worthlesse security Others upon the shelves of proud and Luciferian presumption have ruinated themselves Others have sunk themselves and theirs upon the syrtes sands of miserable Desperation The third passage is That the sea of this world is passing dangerous in respect of the many sea monsters that are in it The Prophet Daniel saw this in his Vision And foure great beasts came up from the sea divers one from another The first was like a lyon which are the proud knowne and discovered by their high looks lofty words and stroting incesse The second was like a Beare which are the voluptuous and filthy uncleane persons men and women The Beare licks his dirty pawes and the strumpet wipes her mouth and licks her whorish lips and saith I have done no evill when she hath sold her soule to the devil and sunk her body into a gulfe of uncleannesse The third beast was like a Leopard a mongrell beast comming of a Lion and a Pard and this is the covetous wretch who being neither fish nor flesh nor good red-herring neither good
to God nor to man nor to himselfe The fourth beast is not named but deciphered to have teeth of iron This is no other beast but hellish and diabolicall malice which rends teares and tyrannizes over the proud Peacocks the stinking voluptuous Beare and the amphibious Leopard The fourth passage is That the Sea of this world is passing dangerous in respect of the inconstancie thereof Sometimes in siraquedry and excesse lifting worldlings up to heaven upon her billowes and anon sinking them downe as it were to hell as the holy Psalmist tells you The Philosophers tell us that the Moone is Mistris of the Sea and the Moone is ever constant in her continued inconstancie The Moone never shineth long with one and the same countenance but still she is either in her wane or in her increment Ay me how fit a semblance is this Moon a Mistris of the Sea and the inconstancie of the Sea and Moon an absolute Demonstration of this Sea of slippery and brittle glasse Thus have we made good the fitnesse of the Resemblance That the Sea of this world is passing dangerous in foure respects Namely by reason it is subject to every disgust of the ayre blow the wind out of what quarter you will Secondly dangerous in respect of the many rocks shelves syrtes and sands Thirdly dangerous in respect of Sea-monsters And fourthly dangerous in respect of this worlds constant inconstancie The second piece of the Doctrinall part of my Proposition is this That all the passages in this world are ever transitory and alwayes fleeting The holy Divine St. John is very plaine and passing peremptory in this The world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doth the will of the Lord abideth ever We all know that we are all in passage the world is either leaving us or we the world peradventure this night who can tell how soon this voice may be heard at your chamber window Thou foole this night shall they snatch thy soule from thee whose are those things then that thou possessest now If not to night yet the wise man tells you They have wings and askes you this question Wilt thou set thy hears upon that which is not For riches take unto them wings and flye away Jeremy tells the Muck-worme that he is like the foolish Partridge which sits abrood on egges and never hatcheth them So the fond worldlings have riches and enjoy them not And the holy Psalmist burnes the foolish worldling in the fore-head with a Behold the man who tooke not God for his strength but boasted and blest himselfe in the multitude of his riches The third piece of my Proposition is this That all the passages of this world are never satisfactory They that drinke Sea-water doe never quench their thirst but are dry and thirsty still Whose eye was ever satisfied with seeing whose eare with hearing whose scent with smelling whose mouth with eating Men may satiate their senses but never satisfie them The Prodigall was not satisfied with his revelling excesse though he brought his noble to nine pence and his nine pence to nothing The Scholler is never satisfied with his knowledge He that encreaseth his doctrine encreaseth his dolour Nor yet the honourable either in the state Ecclesiasticall or Civill Nor the opulent man with all his fulnesse See the antiphony of those that have nothing and those that have too much They both cry out O what shall we doe So cryed the foole in the Gospel when his increase was bigger then his barne And so complained the poore Prodigall when hee had not one Denier to help himself withall if he had not had a good Father to goe unto and remembred him at last cast the poore starveling had eaten husks with Swine and pitifully perished The fourth and last piece of the Doctrinall part of my Proposition is this That all the passages of this world are alwayes open overt obvious and transparent to God with whom we have to doe The sweet Singer of Israel expostulates this truth with his God Whither shall I goe from thy Spirit or thy presence If to heaven thou art there in thy displayed glory If to hell thou art there also in thy judgements on the wicked in torments If to Sea thine hand must guide me there too If I thinke the darknesse shall hide me the darke night to God is as cleere as the brightest day The Spirit of God tells you That there is no creature that is not manifest to his sight and all things are open and naked to him with whom we have to doe And the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ sayes That Gods eyes like flaming fire run to and fro thorow all the world This last piece of the doctrinall part of my Proposition as it is a terrour and trembling to the wicked all whose cursed and crying wickednesses are open to his all-seeing eyes so it is a cordiall and comfort to the godly knowing and considering that their heavenly Father seeth and beholdeth all their pressures vexations and distresses that they endure and lye under in this slippery brittle and boisterous Sea of the world Would you know the reasons of these particular truths As first why the passages of this world are so dangerous The reasons are ready It is because the raging Sea is not subject to so many disgusts either of dangerous rockes stormes shelves shallowes syrtes sands Sea-monsters and other incumbrances as this restlesse world is that is fraught with dangers and incarnate divels What find we here but brevity in all our Contents as the Prophet Esay Evangelizeth It is even as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soule is empty Or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and his soule is faint Oh how many are there in this Sea of glasse whose whole course of life is but a dreame and when death comes they are awakened and never till then in all their life and their soules are empty of all comfort and fainting dye and their places know them no more What finde we here but levity the very wicked confesse as much saying We have wearied our selves in the wayes of wickednesse and the wayes of the Lord wee have been strangers to What finde wee here but Cymmerian blindenesse millions selling away their interest to Heaven for nothing What find we here but multitude and vast magnitude of all sorts of iniquities transgressions and sinnes God himselfe complaining by his Prophet Amos with a witnesse Behold saith the Lord I am pressed under you as a Cart is pressed that is full of sheaves VVhat meet we here daily but with deceitfulnesse on all hands the world it selfe is all glasse and where it glittereth most there it cracketh and breaketh soonest VVhat doe we finde the world to be in our experience of it but a
the State of the Venetians and the French Monarchy abundantly confute Yea the boyes in Schoole conclude That Numeri quà numerus nulla vis nulla efficacia But mine endeered and most Christian Auditory I will make bold with you and surely I cannot give you a more glorious title if I did study to give you ten thousand to signifie what gives me satisfaction in this point even the Prophet Daniels interpretation of Nebuchadnezzars vision in a Dreame The Vision was this An Image appeared to the King whose head was of fine gold his breasts and armes of silver his belly and thighes of brasse his legges of iron and his feet part of iron and part of clay This head of fine gold breasts and armes of silver belly and thighes of brasse legges of iron and the feet part of iron and part of clay were the four Monarchies of this world this glassie Sea like Crystall The head of fine gold was the Monarchy of the Assyrians and Babylonians The breasts and armes of silver were the Medes and Persians The belly and thighes of brasse signified the Monarchy of the Greekes and Macedonians And the legges of iron and the feet partly of iron and partly of clay pourtray unto us the last Monarchy of the Romanes and Germanes The three first Monarchies to wit of the Assyrians and Babylonians Medes and Persians Graecians and Macedonians are long agoe slipt away in this slippery and brittle world And the last of the Romanes and Germanes is now at a very low ebbe for it is come to a titular Emperour and that is all that remaines of the House of Austria and at this very day ready to return to their prime and pristine commencement to be Comites de Kyburgh onely the proud Spaniard ventures at all to uphold their tottering state and low condition Assuredly no expectation at all remaineth but when the stone hewed out of the rocke of our sinnes shall fall upon the remaining stumps and then downe falls all the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron upon the feet of clay and so then this Sea of Glasse in Chaos antiquum confundetur And verily my Prayer is and shall be this Come Lord Jesus come quickly and stretch out thine hand close up the two eyes of this dying world the Sun and the Moon that we may attain that heavenly Jerusalem where there 's no need of either but the glory of the Lamb of God the Lord Jesus shal be our exceeding glorious recompence of reward for ever The second Use of the Doctrine is mournfull sad and sable even of lamentation for the witlesse wights of this glassie brittle seas inhabitants Oh how many sots are there in this restlesse sea of the world who albeit they see and may discern this truth in a vision and revelation of Jesus yet think of nothing but seek here for their content and care for nothing but here to finde their Requiem for their soules Behold blessed in the Lord their extreame folly Some seek and conceive hope that they shall find it in the lust and brutish lustfulnesse of the flesh and what is that but the foame of this sea and what tends it to and ends in but fordid luxurie which brings us to rottennesse pox and penurie This foame dwels in drunkennesse vomit and spewing in riot and excesse which ends in filthy annihilation fit for the draft-house and nothing else Others seek their Requiem in this restlesse sea in the lust of the eyes which is riches and the pomp of the world which the Scripture cals Phantasie When King Agrippa and Bernice his wife came in to hear Paul the Greek speaks thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} What are these but Conchyliamaris the shels of this glassie sea which doe weary us in seeking them befoole us in the possession of them and vex us to the heart when we must part with them Others seek their Requiem in the pride of life and what are all the pleasures of this life but the billowes of this sea of glasse wherewith some are lifted up to vain glory that feather which children and fooles labour to catch in the streets and abundantly sweat for it and know not what to doe with it when they have it but set it flying again Others it lifteth up to Honours and yet his Lordship must say to rottennesse Thou art my father and mother and to the wormes not of the earth for they scorne to come nigh thee but to thine owne skinworms as Job speaks You are my brothers and sisters Some are lifted up on the billowes of their policie and learning whereas we know that the prudent and politique dye as well as the ignorant and foolish Others are lifted up upon the billowes of their beauty which with a gleame of the Sun will be burnt with three fits of a Spanish Calenture will be discoloured with old age furrowed with wrinkles and with three dayes of death made hideous Others pride themselves in their gay garments which every week grow out of fashion as the world it self doth Is it not a strange thing that a Malefactor should be proud of his halter that must hang him Surely our clothes may put us in mind of our evil doing for had we not faln from God by our evil doing we had had no use of raiment In a word what are all our pleasures but Lilia terrae like the Lilies of the field what gold and silver but Ilia terrae the garbage of the earth and what are honours and promotions but Ludibria venti feathers for the wind to play withall The third Use of this Doctrine is of Expostulation Have and doe we not too too often forget where we are verily we have and doe so still Ay me we little consider that we are poore passengers in this sea of glasse we are in this world and this world is a sea of glasse restlesse as a sea and brittle as glasse our Port and Haven is Heaven every one of us is his owne Pilot to guide his own vessel The Pilots place is to sit in the sterne of his ship Why there To see how she steeres That true Christian Passenger that sailes towards heaven will ever be minding his end sitting in the sterne and considers how his Ship steeres toward the Haven of Heaven Never do any saile in safety in this restlesse world but they that in their voyage have the Rudder in their hand and the Compasse and Sea-Card in their eye that is to say think and meditate of their end and steere toward heaven The fourth Use of this Doctrine is of holy Resolution What is that Surely to resolve as the holy Divine adviseth Not to love the world for if we doe the love of God is not in us Can any man love a traiterous and treacherous Judas which if you confide in him will betray you with a kisse And if the world smile upon you take heed lest the next thing you heare of
be not some plot of villany to insnare thee Can any wise man love the place where Satan domineeres If this our Gospel truth be hid from any here it is hid to them that are lost Are not they lost that can neither be found in heaven nor in the earth nor yet in the sea The god of this world which is the Devil hath blinded the minds of them that beleeve not this truth lest the light of the glorious Gospel truth of Jesus Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them The whole world saith the holy Divine Saint John lyeth in wickednesse and our little world this Island wherein we dwell is on fire about our eares and yet neither the worlds malignity nor yet our owne misery can quicken us to a lothing of this restlesse and brittle sea of glasse But would you learne how to avoid this Traitor that wil Judaize with you this dominion of Satan and this house on fire I shall doe my endeavour to satisfie your desire in this point You all know that whatsoever the shavelings of Rome say we have a Church and it is a principall piece of the holy Catholique Church which we professe to beleeve that is scattered farre and wide upon the surface of the whole Universe and to this Church we have given our names Christian is my name and Catholike is my sirname We are shipped by Baptisme If a tempest arise cry upon Christ as the Apostles did in a storme If the Ship of our state be ready to be swallowed up of the waves flye unto Christ if he be asleep awaken him with our cryes Concutitur fides non excutitur our faith may bee shaken but never shaken off therefore never cease but cry and cry aloud that we may be heard and being heard we may be delivered and being delivered we may glorifie God If the wind roare Christ will rebuke it and there shall follow a great calme The fift Use of the Doctrine is to take a review of the Text If this world be in experience to us a Sea of glasse like unto Crystall This Crystalline resemblance deceives none but children and fooles who are deceived with shewes shadowes and resemblances But wee are men endowed with reason and experience How are we fitted and furnished for our voyage Where 's our Tackles Have we our Maine mast ready that is to say our faith without which it is impossible to please God there 's no walking or talking with God without it Where 's our Anchor and Sailes the Anchor of hope and the Sayles of good workes What wind doe we sayle by no wind under the cope of heaven but the gale of Christian Charity can arrive us at the Port of Heaven But sayling with that gentle gale we need not feare any danger between this and Heaven For if a Whale by the way should swallow us as it did Jonah or a wind called Euroclydon which caused Pauls ship-wracke at the Island then called Melita now Malta In both dangers we should be safe the Whale must cast us upon the Land and though the Ship were wracked yet either by swimming or by some broken fragments of the Ship we should surely come safe to Land The sixt use of this Doctrine is of Discovery The holy Apostle gives every one in particular a Christian Caveat Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall If my Text be a vision unto you it hath discovered how slippery our station is I beseech you therefore when you have forgotten me yet remember my Text and forget it not lest you slippe and slide and fall like the house built upon the sands the fall whereof was great The Royall Preacher tells us that God hath set the world in the heart of man to the end that he should consider the deceitfulnesse and uncertainty of it Shall a man love that which Christ never prayed for I pray for mine Elect I pray not for the world That is I pray not for the Muck-worms and Mammonists of this world And if the grace of God be in us we shall daily blesse and thank God for the Lord Jesus who hath given himselfe for our sinnes that hee might deliver us from this present evill world according to the will of God and our Father They that remember not this discovery of the world have not knowne God as John testifieth The Mammonists of this world cannot endure to heare or thinke of death and yet when they lose the things of this glassie world they murther themselves with worldly sorry St. Paul is a witnesse of this truth saying The sorrow of this world causeth death The Mammonists and Muck-wormes of this world brag boast and pride themselves with the things of the world Saint Paul was otherwise minded God forbid saith he that I should pride my selfe in ought or any thing in the world save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world It is no marvell that so few love Preachers and gaine so little or nothing by the frequent and powerfull preaching of Gospell-truth Paul sheweth us the reason why Demas forsooke him Hee was in love with this present world Saint Peter gives the Muck wormes Mammonists and lovers of this world their fearfull fatall and finall doom shewing first how we may escape the pollutions of this world and then how dangerous a relapse and backsliding is For saith he and puts the case thus If the Muck-wormes and Mammonists of this world have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are againe intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them then the beginning for then they become Wells without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever For the Lord Christ Jesus sake blessed Auditory you holy people of the Lord remember my Text when you see not me That our standing is very slippery upon this Sea of glasse Remember that all the actions transactions and all the imaginations of all the thoughts purposes and intentions of all hearts are before the Throne of God open and manifest to his sight and censure The Lords Throne is in heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soule hateth Oh remember that the Lords Throne is for ever and that his Throne is in heaven and the earth is his pedestoole Oh remember that thou sweare not by heaven for it is the Throne of God For hee that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the Throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon Oh remember that we must all appeare before the Throne of Jesus Christ and render our accompts Oh remember what favour the Lord Jesus hath purchased for us that we may come boldly to a