plucked one limb from the other; thou hadst better have been made a
dog, a toad, a serpent, than to die unconverted; and this thou wilt
find true if thou repent not.

A man would be counted a fool to slight a judge before whom he is to
have a trial of his whole estate. The trial we are to have before God
is of OTHERWISE importance; it concerns our eternal happiness or
misery, and yet dare we affront him.

The only way for us to escape that terrible judgment is to be often
passing a sentence of condemnation upon ourselves here.

When the sound of the trumpet shall be heard, which shall summon the
dead to appear before the tribunal of God, the righteous shall hasten
out of their graves with joy to meet their Redeemer in the clouds;
others shall call to the mountains and hills to fall upon them, to
cover them from the sight of their judge; let us, therefore, in time be
POSING ourselves which of the TWO we shall be.

OF THE JOYS OF HEAVEN.

There is no good in this life but what is mingled with some evil:
honours perplex, riches disquiet, and pleasures ruin health. But in
heaven we shall find blessings in their purity, without any ingredient
to imbitter; with everything to sweeten it.

O! who is able to conceive the inexpressible, inconceivable joys that
are there! None but they who have tasted of them. Lord, help us to
put such a value upon them here, that in order to prepare ourselves for
them, we may be willing to forego the loss of all those deluding