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Merchants may lose their Count-books, they may be tolen, they may be destroyed by fire of water, and many other accidents, but that Omoifciencie should any way be eluded, no thinking man will dream.

4. Conf. As God keeps an account of all our debts fo doublefs he will have a day of reckoning, wherein he will faithfully produce a fuil and formal-Extra& of them, and feverely charge us to the utmost far thing, the dread whereof may ftrick us into a fearfu}} perplexity: Notwithstanding do cot the most part of profelling Chriftians fecurely Follow their infull Plealures,net adverting (though they falfly fay they believe) that they must be fitted before the tremen duous Tribunal of God, there to give an account of their vain thoughts,idle words, openly ungodly deeds, and also of all the bidden works of darknefs, and though they now fondly dream that God forgets & fees not, yet in due time they shall know that He hath marked all their Paths, and if Repentance pre vent not, they fhall find to their fad coft,that He will neither forget, nor forgive: Pfal. 1o. II, 14. 94.7. 89. fo. 22. And fays our Lord, after a long time the Lord of thefs Servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Mat.15.19 And I fiw the dead great and finall Rand before God, and the banks were opened, and the dead were judged out of these things which were writs ten in the books according to their works Rev, 20, 12. Ifay, then will be opened the book of the Law of God, where Commands we have broken, and also the book of Conscience, which we would not be at pains to open or view for attaining an account of he flate of our Soul-affairs, and alfo will the book of

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Gods Omniferencie be opened, which will discover before Men and Angels all the concealed Abomis nations the World never knew of, Matth, 5. 25,26, 2 Cor. 5.

5. Conf. Though we are drowned in debt, yet alas we are not folvendo, nor can command one farthing towards clearing our Accounts, or paying our debts, qui mbil babet, nihil dabis: yea fo very poor are we, that if the Mite of one Spiritual good Thought, would be accepted for compleat payment of the vall Sum we are owing, we have it not to give: 2.Cor. 3-5.

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6. Conf. As we have nothing of our own, fo we want Credit with others: as for God, we have fo often falfified our wordto Him, that we have fmall ground to believe,He will believe us again; O how many facred Vows, how many fpecious Purpofes and Promifes, how many Perfonal-covenant-tranf actions have we treacherously broken with God! fo that it is a thousand to one, if ever Helisten any more to a word we say: And we have so often contemp toonfly refused Chrißs offers of becoming Surety & Caution for us, that though with tears we should a gain feek this Favour of Him, He might juflly fufpe& and reject our fairest Promifes, and to be fure no where else can we find Credit for Saints and Ang gelaneither will nor can pay a Farthing for us.

7. Conf. So perverfe is our Nature that we are uns willing and refractorie tó come to a Compofition, this isfad, when we may get free, that yet to mad as to caft at all Propofals for compalling it: have we not often rejected the Coursel of God against our Soule

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and when Chrift has urged upon us an Act of Indemnity containing a full Difcharge of all our Debts yet with greatest Ingratitude have we not defperat ly declined to accept His gracious Proffer, and thus given Him occafion to lay with regrate, and ye will not come unto Me, that ye might have Life, Jobs 40 8. Conf. Our Creditor can reach and find us out wherever we are, to caft us into Jaile till we pay the utmoft Farthing: Bankrupts among men may abfcond in unknown or far diflant places, where their Creditors can never catch hold of them; but whither can any run fugitive to lurk fecure from Gods band: See Amos 9, 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Some Inferences from this Propofition.

I. Infer. A Re we all broken. Merchants there is

none in the blame for this, but our felves. O Ifrael thou haft defroyed thy felf, Haf. 13.9, God made man upright but he hath found out many in ventions: Eccl. 7. 29. Adam, and we in him, bad a fufficient ability of ftanding for ever, but spontane onfly he foon perverted his power, and altered his parpole he had a full Stock put in his hand, which he quickly wafted, and thereby beggered himself and all his Pokerity.

2. Infer. Are we broken Merchants, let us with a broken Heart, lay to heart our broken undone e fate; this is moft congruous and needfull: O the

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ed World who never ferioufly confider how mat ters go with their poor perifhing Souls: Ocareless man, when didft thou laft it down & take a thoughtfull account of thy Souls fate? to try how deep thou art run in Gods Debt, to fee what care thou bast taken for defraying thy Debts, and to fecure thy felf from the Prifon of the Pit; tell me, doeft chou not think it a piece of Work worth thy while, to get Counts cleared betwixt God & thy Soul are there not many who rife up early, & fit up late; who toile & fweat in their worldly bufinefs, who spend much time in idle difports and pleafores, who vet never entertain any ferious thoughts anent their Souls debts and danger: O Sirs, how few are like to be faved? Doeft thou ever lay to heart Man, that thou art a broken Merchant, that thou art funk under many great Loffes and that thy Affairs are fadly confused? Is not the primitive fight of the understanding fore darkned feeleft thou not a great prversity of Will? inflead of a right and conftant Spirit, do not thy vaging Affections turn from God the best of things, and bafly pursue the worst of things, viz. the Lufts of the World,and of the Flesh: findeft thou not the furious Paffions of thy Mind to be ungovernable, & that thy filthy Heart upon the blast of every Temptation cafts up mire and dirt? Are not thy Members Inftruments of Wickedness, and art thou not wholly but a Tool of Satan to ferve his Turns again God? O Sinner is not the feene fadly changed, and is there not a doleful Catafrophe upon thy whole Innerman? How canft thou compare thy prefext unbappy fare, with thy priftine moft happy Condition, and nor

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grievoufly troubled What Merchant is there vho tometime had a Current trade, and was profper uS in bulinefs, but will be extreamly perplexed, wher upon viewing his Count books, be finds be is drowned in debt; and shouldest not thou also be an xiously concerned for thy far greater Loffes & Da mages, and broken Brankrupt condition: Rev.1.5 Remember from whence thou art fallen.

3. Infer. Are we drowned in Deht, and at our Creditors Reverence for Fortune and Freedom? It is then of the Lords Mercy that we are not fhut up in the Prifon of Hell long ere now, 'tis a wonder that our powerfull Creditor claps not an Arreu pon us every day; furely, God in Juice may do this, for we are deeply endebted to Him; in many things we offend all; and that God Almighty can do this none will deny, for as we have faid before, He can reach and find us out wherever we are, and is Irresistibly able to defroy both Soul and Body in Hell's fire, Matth. 10, 28. Oguilty Sioner, had a Holy God taken advantage of thee, how often hath He bad occafion to have mitten thee down to the low eft Lake in the very Act of finning, yea if so He had pleafed, He could have brought thee out of one Prifon into another viz out of thy Mothers Womb, into the Infernal Dungeon of Darkness.

4. Infer. Are we broken Merchants? let us care fully confider by what Arts or Methods, we may recover our loft Eftate: If a Mans Houfe be burnt down, he will be at fome pains to rake the Rubbish, and caufe ridle the confumed Ashes, if it may be he can recover fome pieces of Plate or of Gold: If a

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