that either a World of Happiness or else of Misery, according to their Carriage and Deportment here.

1. Of Happiness for the good.

2. Of Mifery for the bad, Matth. xxv. 46. And nothing being more certain, than that all Mankind when they go hence are immediately conveyed into one of those Places, and by Confequence that you and I fhall e're long be either in Heaven or Hell, as certainly as we are now here, it must needs behove us very much to be often thinking upon, and preparing for our Departure hence; and that not only when we have Spectacles of our Mortality lying plain before us, but all our Lives long, as we fee here fob did, All the days, &c. - From which Words we may observe,

I. The Time of our abode upon Earth is appointed by God. himself, Job xiv. 5. and vii. 1. Matth. x.29.

II. Death is a Change, on y So it is called too, I Cor. xv. 32. becaule of the many Changes it brings upon us.

1. We fhall then change our Place, going from Earth either to Heaven or Hell,

Places of a quite different nature from that we are now in.

2. Our Company. Here we keep Compa-
ny only with Men; but there with An-
gels, either bad or good.

1. They that go to Hell, fhall have no
other Society but that of the Devil
and his Fiends, Matth. xxv. 41.
2. They in Heaven fhall enjoy the bleffed
Company.

1. Of glorified Saints and Angels, Heb.

xii. 23.

2. Of Chrift, John xvii. 24.

3. Of God himself, 1 Cor. xiii. 12. 3. Our Employments. Here we are generally employed about nothing but the Toies and Trifles of this lower World; but there,

1. Some will be employed in remembring their former Sins, in beholding GOD as angry with them, and in bewailing their former Miscarriages, and Follies in provoking GOD and deftroying themselves. 2. Others will be employed in admiring,praifing and adoring the eternal GOD, the chiefeft of all Goods, Rev. iv. 10. and v. 11, 12. and xi. 16, 17.

4. Our Opinions.

1. Concerning the World.

2. Concerning Sin.

3. Concerning GOD and Chrift, and the ways of Holiness and Religion.

5. Our Conditions. The Poor in Time may be Rich to Eternity, and they Poor to Eternity who were Rich in Time.

III. We are always to wait for the Time when our Change shall come.

1. Patiently, Job iii. 20, 21, 22. So as not to haften it our selves, but to wait God's leasure till he shall fee good to call us, Job xiv. 15.

2. To be always looking for it, and expecting our Summons to depart hence into the other World, Amos vi. 3. James iv. 13. This is the Reason that tho' GOD

hath

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hath determined our Days, yet he hath not acquainted us when they will be expired, that fo we may be in daily Expectation of it, Mark xiii. 33, 34, 36. 3. So as to prepare your felves for it, that you may not be furprized, but may be ready to go whenever you are called, Luke xii. 40.

As confidering,

1. As Death leaves you, Judgment will find you, Heb. ix. 27. Eccl, xii. 7.

2. God will then judge you according to your Actions here, either to Heaven or Hell, 2 Cor. v. 10. Matth. xxv. 34, 41.

To prepare your felves aright for your great Change

1. Repent of all your Sins; unless you turn from worse to better while you live, be fure you'll turn from bad to worfe when you die, Luke xiii. 3.

Repent

1. Cordially, Joel ii. 12, 13.

2. Univerfally.

3. Conftantly.

2. Believe in Jefus Chrift, Acts xvi. 31. trufting
only upon him for Pardon and Acceptance.
1. His Death.

2.

Spirit.

3. Interceffion, 1 Job. 2. 1.

3. Walk in newness of Life.

Making

1. Religion your Bufinefs, Ats x. 38.

2. GOD's Glory your end in all you do, Cor,

x. 31.

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JOB Xix. 25.

For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall ftand at the latter day upon the earth. Numb. xxiv. 17.

I.

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Know, that is, certainly believe, 2 Tim. i. 12. The Heathens had Knowledge of GOD, Rom. i. 21. Acts xvii. 23. and of Chrift, Alts x.

2. That Redeemer.N. So Ifa.lix.20. N

גואן אנכי ריש .12 .Ruth iii .זה המשיח .Rab לציון גאל קרוב ממני

1. Chrift became our near Kinsman by becoming Man, Heb. ii. 16. hence called

the second Man, 1 Cor. xv. 47. hence our Brother, Heb. ii. 11.

2. Hence the Right of our Redemption was in him: From Sin and Mifery he redeemed us.

1. From Mifery, by undergoing it for us, 1 John ii. 1,2. He being of our blood, Eph.i.7.

2. From Sin, by fubduing it in us, A&ts iïï.

26.

3. My Redeemer. We muft believe he died. for us particularly, Ifa. liii. 5, 6. John xx.

28.

4. Liveth, John viii. 58. John i. I.

1. Really as God.

2. Effectually as Redeemer.

5. And that he fhall ftand at the latter Day upon the Earth. Intimating,

1. Either his first coming, 1 John ii. 18.

2. Or

2. Or his fecond, Ats i. II.

6. And though after my skin, &c. Quid bac prophetia manifeftius? Nullus tam aperte poft Chriftum quam ifte ante Chrifum de refurrectione loquitur. Hierom. ad Pammach.

1. We shall all rife again. As appears,
1. From Scripture, 1 Cor. xv. 52.
2. Reafon.

2. Appear before the Judgment Seat of
Chrift, 2 Cor. v. 10.

3. Hence in our flesh we shall see GOD.

USES.

1. Oft think of Judgment.

2. Prepare your felves for it.

1. By Repentance.

2. By Fafts.

3. By Good Works.

3. Live like those that must fee GOD with comfort.

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