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12 and thy ſins revealed ? This book is now perhaps ſhut up and ſealed? But in the day of judgment it ſhall be opened, and what will be the evidence that will be brought in? There is a private ſeſſion to be held in the breaſt of every ſinner, the memory is the record, truth is the law, damnation is the judgement, hell is the priſon, devils the jailors, and conſcience both the witneſs and the judge to paſs ſentence upon thee. What hopes can he have at the general aſſize, whole conſcience hath condemned him before he appears: Conſider this, O thou impenitent ſinner!

But yet there is another book we read of, and that is the book of life, wherein is written all ihe names of God's elect, from the beginning of the world unto the end thereof. This is the precious book of heaven, wherein if we be regiſtered, not all the powers of darkneſs, death or devils, can bolt us out again. Therefore, to make ſome uſeful applications.

1 Conſider now, O ſinner! what books one day muſt be ſet before thee. The time will come, when every word of thy mouth, every glance of thy eye, every moment of thy time, every ſermon thou haſt heard, every thing thou haſt left undone, all ſhall be ſeen, and laid open before men, angels and devils; thou ſhalt then and there, be horribly and everlaſtingly aſhamed. Never go about then to commit ſin, tho' ever ſo ſecretly, tho' at midnight, and all the doors locked about thee, for at this great day it ſhall be brought to light.

2. As you intend the good of your ſouls,