2. Your defires of heaven, Pfal, xlii. 1, 2. 3. Your endeavours after Salvation, 2 Pet.i. 10. 4. Divifion. Divide, 1. All your days into Holy and Common, Ifa Iviii. 13. 2. Each day betwixt your general and particular Calling. 5. The Rule of Proportion. 1. Proportion the Repentance of each Day to your fins. 2. Your thankfulness to your Mercies, 1 Thef. V. II. II. Directions how to number our days. 1. Done, 2. Or gotten good. 3. Number the days gone not to come, Fam. iv. 13. 4. Count every Day the last, Luke xii. 20. 5. To fubftract every Day you have lived from the whole of your life, that you may live, counting a day lefs to live. Fob vii. 1. 6. Devote the refidue to the Glory of 7. The more days you live, the greater 14. 8. Count all your days as a Cypher to Eter- 9. The fewer days you expect to number, the 10. Examine USE. 10. Examine the numbring of your Days by the ordering of your Lives. 11. So number your Days, as to apply 1. To know GOD. 3. Chrift, 1 Cor. ii. 2. Learn this Art, beg of GOD to teach you it. 1. You have spent much Time already. PSAL. XC. 3. Thou turneft Man to deftruction, and Sayeft, Return, ye children of men. OBSERVATION I. THis World is full of Turnings and Changes. 1. In our Conditions or Estates, 2 Sam. xix. 43. and xx. I. 2. Employments. 3. Names. 4. Bodies, Job ii. 7,8. Fob vii. 3, 4, 5. OBS. OBS. II. The laft Turn will be to Deftru Єtion. 1. Of the whole Man, confifting in the Sc- 2. Of the Body, in its Diffolution into its 3. Of the Soul too (without Repentance 1. From GOD's Prefence, 2 Thef. i. 9. OBS III. GOD will hereafter bid us return again, I Cor. XV. 12, 51. At this our Return 1. Our Bodies fhall be gathered together, Mat. xxiv. 31. 2. Our Souls united again to them, Phil. iii. 21. 3. Both of them brought before Chrift's Tribunal, Heb. ix. 27. 2 Cor. v. 10. 4. There receive their Sentence, Mat. xxv. 34, 41. 5. And fo live together for ever, Mat. xxv. 46, USE. 1. Live above the Turnings of this Life, 1 Cor. vii. 29, 30, 31. 2. Prepare your felves to be turned out of it. By turning, 1. From your felves to Chrift, Mat. xi. 29. 2. From Sin to GOD, Ezek. xxxiii. 11. 3. From Earth to Heaven, Phil, iii. 20. PSAL. PSAL. cl. 6. Praise ye the Lord. Ho is this Lord? . Three Names. WHO I. 1. his Sovereignty. .his Unity אהיהוה יהוה .2 ,his Trinity אלהים .3 II. How are we to praise the Lord? 1. With our Heads, by minding and acknowledging him. 2. Our Hearts. 1. By our Love and Thankfulness for his Mercies. 2. Our right rejoycing in our Mercies. 3. Our Mouths, Pfa. xxxiv. 1. Pfa. lxxi. 14, 15. 4. Our Hands. III. What should we praise GOD for? 1. In general, for Jefus Chrift. 2. In particular, in Christ 1. For all his Spiritual Mercies. 2. His Comforts. 3. The Means of these his Ordinances. 1. Prayer. 2. Hearing. 3. Sacraments. 4. Afflictions, Heb. xii. 10. Cor. iv.17. 2. Tem 2. Temporal Mercies. 1. His making us. 2. His maintaining us. Neither muft we praise him only for Perfonal, but likewife for National and Ecclefiaftical Mercies, IV. Why fhould we praise the Lord? 1. Confider the Greatness of that God that Vouchfafeth thy Mercies. 2. Thine own Unworthiness. 3. 'Tis all the Tribute and Impoft that GOD expects from thee, or thou canst give to him. 4. The Praifing GOD for what we have, is the best way to get of him what we want. For, 5. It hath always been the Practice of the 6. Hereby we glorify GOD, Pfa.1.23. PSAL. |