Page:Dissertation on the first day of the week, and the last of the world; or, A beautiful descant on the Day of Judgment (sic).pdf/4

 by their great Creator; nor ince the day the great JEHOVAH made this pacious world and hung it in the air, did ever any yet of all the fair creation on earth, in air or ea, except rebellious man diobey the mandate of the everlating Deity, or deviate from their firt etate? No 'tis only man that breaks his Lord's commands; but remember this, that your deaths are certain, and your judgment ure. The glorious un from the golden chambers of the flaming eat, will one day arie and dart forth his chearing beams on thee, but never to et on thee again: and one evening he will withdraw his parting rays from thee never to rie on thee again. I tell you there will come a morning, when you hall never ee an evening, and an evening when you hall never ee a morning. Thee things you may believe are no fictious nor vain imaginations of viionary brains, but all ad realities. Live therefore in this world, o as you may obtain an eternal happines in the next, and if thou hat done evil, do o no more; for what doth the Lord require of thee, O man, but to do jutly, and love mercy, and to humble themelf to walk with thy God, (by keeping his commandments), for thou may believe it, if thou breaket off thy ins by a incere repentance, and fly to, and believe on the ever-bleed Jeus, he will have mercy upon you, and receive you, as he hath promied, into his everlating kingdom. What are all the fleeting pleaures of this tranitory world, compared to an everlating happines in the next? Is it poible then, that man, who is a rational being, And poeed of an immortal and never-dying oul, hould o far forego his interet in an eternal world, as to place all his happines in this. It is certainly a deluion. Can the ounding titles of a high birth, the airy grandures of a court, the numerous retinue of a gilded chariot, or all the flattering pageantries of tate,