The almost Christian discovered Author:Matthew Mead Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but Godfhall deftroy both it and them." i Cor. vi. 13. Oh! let not a tottering perifhingcarcafe have all your time and care, as if the life and falvation of thy ... more »foul were not worth the while. ' Laftly, Meditate much of the ftrictnefs and fyddennefs of that judgment-day, which thou and I muft pafs through into an everlafting ftate, wherein God, the impartial judge, will require an account sf. our hands, of all our talents and betruftments : ;We muft then account for time, how we have fpent that : For eftate, how we have employed that: For ftrength, how we have laid out that: For afflictions and mercies, how they have been improved : For the relations we ftood in here, how they have been difcharged : And for fea- for.s and means of grace, how they have been hufbanded : and look how " We have fowed here, fo fhall we reap hereafter." Gal. vi. 7. Reader, thefe are things, that of all other deferve moft of, and call loudeft for our ut- moft care and endeavour, though by the moft Jeaft minded. To confider what a fpirit of Atheifm, (if we may judge the tree by the fruits. Matt. vii.. 19, 20, and the principle by the practice) the hearts of moft men are filled with, who live as. if God were not to be ferved, nor Chrift to be fought, nor lufts to be mortified, nor felf to be denied, nor the Scriptures to be believed, nor the judgment day to be minded, nor hell to be feared, nor heaven to be defired, nor the foul to be valued, but give up'them- fdves'to a worle than brutifh fenfuality ? To work all -uncleannefs with greedinefs, living without God in the world, Eph. iv. 19. and u. 12. This is a meditation fit enough to break our hearts, if at leaft we were of holy David's temper, who " beheld the tranfgreflbrs, and wasgrieved," Pfalcxix. 158. And had "rivers of waters running down his e...« less