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rati funt, & de inimicis fuis ulti: & luctus in gaudium converfus eft.

Threni Feremiah de Fofia, Lam. iv. 20. Ufb. vide 2 Reg. xxii. 20. Eminentes Ecclefia Regnique miferias tanquam præfentes deplorat, ob cadem fofia, ut futurarum omnium calamitatum primordium.

One or more Fasts in every Month observed the Jews, in the whole year 25.

For Mofes, Aaron, his Sons, Joshua, Eli and his two Sons, and the Ark taken. Samuel, &c.

They keep the Feast of Trumpets the first day of the Civil Year, or the month Tifri, to thank God for his Mercies the Year past, and use Rams Horns in memory of the Ram offered up of Ifaac. Jofiah 4104. Ezra4260.

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EZRA ix. 13, 14

Ver. 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trefpafs, Seeing that thou our God haft punished us less than our iniquities deferve, and haft given us fuch delive

rance as this:

Ver. 14. Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? would ft thou not be till thou hadst with angry us, confumed us, fo that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

I. IT is for our Sins that Judgments are laid up

us.

1. What Judgments? The Effects of God's Wrath for Sin.

2. The Reafon.

USE.

1. God never punisheth but justly.
2. Juftice requires that Sin only fhould
be punished, Ifa. lix. 2.

Miferies,

1. See the Fountain of all your
2. Repent, which is your only Cure.
3. Hate Sin.

II. Our Punishments are lefs than our Iniqui

ties deferve.

Con

Confidering,

1. The Deformity of Sin.

1. It tranfgreffes fo good a Law.
2. Defiles fo precious a Soul.
3. Difpleafes fo gracious a God.
2. The greatness of our Sins.

2.

1. Against Knowledge, John iii. 19. Conscience, A&ts ii. 15. The Reproofs of the Word. 3. By comparing what we fuffer, with what we deferve.

3.

1. We deserve univerfal,fuffer but partial. 2. We deserve spiritual, fuffer but bodily. 3. We deserve continued, fuffer but tranfient.

4. We deserve eternal, fuffer but temporal Judgments.

USE.

1. Murmur not at what you fuffer, Lam. iii. 39.

2. Admire God's Mercy that you fuffer no

more.

3. Let this his Grace lead you to Repentance.

JOB xiv. 14.

All the days of my appointed time will 1 wait till my change come.

Fall Mankind that ever lived in former Ages, there is now not one alive upon Earth. And of all that are now alive, it is not long but every one will be carry'd into another World, and

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that

that either a World of Happiness or else of Mifery, 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 thofe 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 muft 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 Job 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.

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II. Death is a Change, non 1 So it is called too, 1 Cor. xv. 32. because 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 shall 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 felves, but to wait God's leasure till he fhall 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

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