he please It is this be much in the grace of Faith this is clear from Eph. 3. 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith By the exercise of all other graces Christ is but a sojourner That turneth aside to tarry but for a night but by the exercise of this grace he cometh to take up house with us I will tell you what faith is It is a ladder that reacheth betwixt heaven and earth by the steps of which a Christian doth daily go up to heaven and converse with the higher House Faith is that grace as the Apostle speaketh by which wee have accesse to the Throne of his grace Faith ushers in the Believer to the Throne and without it hee cannot have accesse there nor joy when he is there V. Here is this advantage that attendeth the exercise of Faith A believing Christian is a praying Christian according to that word in Mark 9. 24. where these two are conjoyned together Lord I believe and then hee falleth to his prayer presently after that confession Help thou my unbelief And it is clear from Psal. 63. 1. O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee And sometimes Faith is a most impatient grace but we may alwayes say of it that it is a most diligent grace Oh is it not the neglect of this precious exercise of faith and of the duty of secret Prayer that makes our leannesse testisie to our Face and maketh our souls as a barren wildernesse I am perswaded of this that since Christ had any followers and since ever this everlasting Goâ—pel was preached in Paradise the exercise of secret prayer was never so much neglected Wee have turned over all our prayers into complements with God We know not what â—t is to rise at mid-night and call upon God and to inquire after our Maker under the silent watches of the night O but it is a sweet diâ—ersion from sleep to retire our selves in the â—ilent seasons of the night from all thoughts â—bout worldly matters and to converse with â—hat invisible Majesty VI. There is this sixth consideration to â—oint out the advantage of Faith That Faith â—s that grace that doth facilitate a Christians obedience and maketh it most pleasant and â—asie This is clear from Heb. 11. 8. By faith Abraham when commanded to go to a strange land obeyed and went out not knowing whether â—e went The word may be rendered He did â—hearfully obey And ver 17. By faith he ofâ—ered up his only Son Would ye know the reaâ—on why his commands are your burden and why his precepts are your crosses It is beâ—ause of this Yee do not believe And so it is most certain that it is impossible for a Chriâ—tian to attain to a pleasant way of obedience â—ithout the exercise of Faith Faith holdeth â—p the Crown to a Christian and this crown â—aketh him to obey Faith gathereth strength â—rom Christ and that strength maketh obeâ—ience very easie Faith â—aketh up the excellency of Christ and this maketh a Christian to look upon his duty more as his dignity then his duty And we are perswaded of this that our chariot wheel should move more swiftly like the chariots of Aminadab if we were more in the exercise of the grace of Faith Would ye know an answer to that question What is the first most requisit for a Christian while here below Faith And what secondly is most requisit Faith And what thirdly is most requisit for a Christian even Faith Faith above all things and above all things Faith VII There is another advantage of it that by Faith our service and prayers are accepted of God Would ye know what is the prayer of a Christian that is not in Faith Iâ— is a smoak in his nostrils and a fire that burneth all the day The unbelievers sacrifice is an abomination to the Lord. This is clear from Heb. 11. 4. By faith Abel offered up unto God a more acceptable sacrifice then Cain and we conceive that there are many unanswered prayers which we do put up because we want that noble exercise of Faith VIII And lastly we shall likewise addâ— this that Faith is the graâ—e by which a Christian hath that perfect and immediate sight as it were of great things that are promised to him Faith bringeth a Christian withiâ— sight of Heaven and Faith bringeth a Christian within sight of God according to thaâ— word Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the evidence â— things not seen and that noble paâ—adox thâ—â— is said of Faith Heb. 11. 27 By faith Mosâ—â— saw him that is invisible Is it not an impossible thing to see that which cannot be seen But the meaning of it is this That Faiths discoveries of God are as certain and sure as the discoveries of our bodily eyes are Faith is an intelligent grace yea it is a most sure and infallible grace What will Faith not do And what can yee do who want Faith Now to enforce the advantages and excellencies of Faith a little more wee shall propose to you the disadvantages of that wofull sin of unbelief I. There is this disadvantage of the sin of unbelief that all the actions that proceed from an unbeliever they are impure and defiled according to that in Tit. 1. 15. But unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Their prayer is unclean yea as Solomon speaketh their plowing is sin yea their going about the most excellent duties for matter is an abomination to God according to that word Rom. 14. 23. What ever is not of faith is sin So the want of Faith is the great polluter of all our actions and of all our performances II. There is this second disadvantage of misbelief that it is impossible for one in the exercise of unbelief to moâ—tifie a lust or idol and wee may allude unto these words in Matth. 17. 20. When his disciples came to him and asked this question Why could wee not cast out this devil That was given as an answer because of your unbelief Unbelief is that which taketh up arms for our idols and doth most strongly defend them for there is nothing that will kill corruption so much as the exercise of faith and when that is laid aside we have laid by our weapons and have in a manner concluded â— treaty of peace with our idols that we shall not offend them if they offend not us III. There is this disadvantage that waiteth upon the sin of unbelief that such an one cannot win nor attain to the grace of establishment but is alwayes as the waves of the sea tossed to and fro untill once hee win to the exercise of Faith as is clear from Isa. 7. 9 Except ye believe ye shall not be established IV. There is this disadvantage that waiteth on it it is the mother of hardnesse and stupidity of heart according to that word in Mark 16. 14. Where he
those that are given to it It is also clear Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed unto all men once to die So it is most clear that we must die I remember of one Philip King of Macedonia who had one substitute for this very end to cry at his Chamber door every morning Memento mori Memento mori Memento mori Remember thou art to die and it is reported to have been the practice of the Nobles of Greece and in the day wherein their Emperour was Crowned that they presented a Marblestone unto him and he was inquired after what fashion he would have his Tomb stone made which practices speak forth this unto us that although these were most destitute of light of the Scriptures yet were very mindfull of death Believe me death may surprise us before we be aware for it is most certain that we must die but there is nothing more uncertain then the way how and the time when we shall die Death will surprise some as it did Abel in the open field Gen. 4. 8 Death will surprise some as it did Eglon in his parlour Iudg. 3. 21. And death will surprise some as it did Saul and Ionathan in the flight 1 Sam. 31. Now in speaking to this point I shall first speak a little to these advantages which attend those that live within continuall sight of death Secondly I shall give you some Considerations to presse you to prepare for death Thirdly I shall give you some Directions to help you to prepare for Death And then we shall proceed unto the second point of doctrine which we observed from the Text and shall speak a few things from it unto you and so come unto a close for this time First then we conceive there are these seven advantages which attend those who live within the continual â—ight of this truth that they must die I. First The Faith of approaching death will make a soul exceeding diligent in duty this was our blessed Lords divinity Ioh. 9. 4. I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day The night cometh when no man can work That is death is approaching therefore I must work It is clear also 2 Pet. 1. 12. compared with vers 14. In the 12. vers Peter is exceeding diligencâ— in his duty and the ground of his diligence is in the 14. vers Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle c. Yea it is even the Epicures argument Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die and should not the Christian much more cry out Let mee watch and pray for to morrow I may die I say if the Epicures did make use of this notion to make them vigorous in the pursuit of their pleasures O how much more should a Christian improve iâ— for making him vigorous in the pursuit of his duty Therefore I say unto you all O bee diligent for your night is drawing near O Christians and expectants of heaven are ye not afraid lest yee be nighted before ye have walked the half of your journey For if yee bee nighted on your journey to heaven before ye come to the end of your race there is no retiring place whereunto yee may turn aside to lodge therefore O work work work while it is day for behold death is approaching and then shall we all bee called to an account II. The Faith of approaching death will make a Christian exceeding active in duty hee will not only bee diligent but also exceeding serious and zealous in the exercise of his duty This is clear from that notable exhortation Eccles. 9. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might and the reason is For there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whether thou goest Wherefore O bee active while yee are alive for ye shall never work any more after ye are dead and if ye leave but one work undone there is no doing of it after death There is no work saith Solomon in the grave therefore O be active III. The faith of this Truth that we must all die will help a Christian to be exceeding mortified to the things of a present world Oh covetous men and women would ye shake hands with cold death but once every morning I should defy you to pursue the world so much as ye do Paul was much in the meditation of his change which made him 2 Cor. 4. 18. to overlook these things that are temporary while we look not saith he to the things that are seen which are temporal but to the things which are not seen which are eternal therefore chap. 5. 1. Knowing that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens Therefore in this we groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with our house which is from heaven What aileth you Paul might one have said may ye not take a look of the world no saith he For I know that if this earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved I have a house with God not made with hands but eternal in the heavens That is I know that ere long the pins of my tabernacle will be loosed and it will fall down about my ears therefore I must look for another dwelling house And 1 Cor. 7. 24. The fashions of this world passe away Therefore â—aith he vers 32. I would have you without carefulnesse caring how to please the Lord. And Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be known to all men The Lord is at hand As if he had said Death is approaching and at hand therefore I intreat you be sober But I think many of us will be found like Saul hid among the stuffe that is we will be lying amongst the middest of the pleasures of this passing world But I say unto thee who are such an one that death will break the strings of thy harp and thy musick will quickly cease O but death will make thee have a low esteem of the world O blessed is the person who hath these thoughts of the world all along his way which he shall have of it at death Have not the most cursed wretches been forced to cry forth Oh I would give ten thousand worlds for Christ Have not some persons who have had the Moon upon their head and that have made their belly their god being forced to cry forth at death O cursed person that I am that ever made the world my god Alas that I contented my self with the world Therefore I say unto thee who art such an one O stay thy pursuit after the world for death is approaching that will cause all thy worldly comforts evanish IV. When a Christian believeth this Truth that he must die it will be an exceeding great â—estraint to keep him from sinning as is clear Iob 31. 13. compared with vers 14. where Iob reckoning over many good deeds done by himself saith What
some hours upon it according aâ— other necessary imployments would permit And now having sought out all the Notes of these Sermons which we could finde from other hands and compared them with the Copie abovementioned wee do again present them unto the Lords People not with any confidence that our pains hath put any new lustre upon them only wee have some hopes that the whole subject being now before them and these things in the way of expression helped which either might seem to be somewhat unpleasant or liable to mistakes they shall not nâ—w be lesse edifying nor lesse acceptable then formerly they were We did not think fit to make any considerable alterations â—â—â—o the method or other things of that kind lost â—aply by straining his excellent purposes too much to shape them to the ordinary Rules or to reduce them to that order which might best have pleased our selves we should have wronged the matter it self at least have put these to a losse who did hear him Preach and it may be â—ow upon their reading things in that same order as they heard them will be the more readily brought under the impressions of that livelinesse power and weight which it may be formerly they felt upon their hearts when he was speaking If the method do not altogether satisfie some spirits or the explication seem not so fult or â—f they finde some introductions which possibly â—ead not in so close or seem not so sib to the subject of the Sermon or happly now and then there bee some little digressions from the main purpose wee shall desire that this may not at all bee constructed to bee the Authors ignorance of Rules and Method or his want of abilities in humane Learning it being known to these who were best acquaint with him that hee had indeed a Scholastick spirit and was in reading far beyond his age and opportunities for Studying But as to all these wee shall intreat you rather to consider 1. His age and that his gift was but in the very moulding and breaking as wee speak in the point of order and method when the Lord was pleased to call him home from his work 2. That every man hath his proper gift of God whâ— in his great wisdom and certainly for the good of His Church doth so order that there is somewhat singular and peculiar almost in every mans way as to these things 3. For any thing we know hee had never that high esteem of this or any other of his labours as to design anâ— of them for publick view and these are buâ— Notes taken from his mouth 4. We are perswaded hee studied more his hearers than himself Ye will easily perceive when ye have buâ— read a little that hee hath been a man of a verâ— zealous temper that the great â—ensil of hiâ— spirit and that which hee did wholly spend himself about was to make people know their dangerous condition by nature and by all means tâ— perswade them to believe and lay hold upoâ— the Great salvation And truely that a maâ— in such a frame should lesse attend to these lesse things is not to be wondered at And indeed though these things be good in themselves and worthy to be looked to in their own place yet for a Minister of the Gospel in all Auditories and upon all occasions to pin up every purpose to such a method and insist into such a measure of Explications and Criticismes upon words it is but to â—etter himself and to starve his people 5. Consider the dulnesse of the most part of hearers in this age and how hard a thing it is to awake a sleeping world and to get them but to think that it doth concern them to hear in earnest And possibly it was not a small piece of spiritual wisedome in him and it may be not unfit to be imitated by others to begin or end all his Sermons with an awakening word concerning Heaven or Hell or Iudgement and the danger of choising the evil and refusing the good 6. For digressions the truth is that his soul was so filled with such longings after Heaven and Glory and so inflamed with the love of Christ especially towards the latter end of his race that when he fell upon these subjects upon which ye will see most of these digressions are he could not well contain himself nor easily bring off his own spirit A thing not unusual to the Saints in Scripture And howbeit such things might seem somewhat singular in the time and not so coherent yet now we have grounds to apprehend that they were often strong influences of the Lords Spirit stirring up a lamp as it were into a sudden blaze that was not to burn long in his Church But now we shall detain you no longer only this we may assure you of That although these Sermons are neither so exact nor so full as doubtlesse they would have been if they had come from the Authors own pen yet as we dare say they were studied with Prayer Preached with Power and backed with Successe so also if ye shall read them with consideration meditate with Prayer and Practise with diligence ye shall neither find your time nor pains ill bestowed but shall have cause to blesse the Lord for this amongst other helps that he hath given for making you meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light That it may be blest to this end is the earnest desire and prayer of your servants in the work of the Lord Ro. Trail Jo. Stirling The Mystery of Faith Opened up SERMON I. 1 Joh. 3. 23. This is his Commandment that ye should believe on the Name of his Son Iesus Christ c. THis everlasting Gospel in which there are drawn so many precious draughts and divine lineaments of the transcendent beauty of a crucified Saviour and of the riches of his unsearchable grace is a most precious and excellent thing not onely because it doth contain most absolute and sublime precepts and commands in the exercise and obedience of which we do not only attain unto the highest pitch in holinesse but likewise because it containeth most rich and precious promises in the possession and fruition of which wee are advanced to the highest pinacle of eternal blessedness this is clear in the grace of Faith for what doth more purifie the heart and stamp it with the Image of the invisible God then this grace of Faith And what richer promises are annexed to any duty then to this duty of believing to wit everlasting life and fruition of God So that if we have dwelt fourty dayes at the foot of Mount Sinai and had been under the greatest discovering and condemning power of the Law we may yet come with boldnesse to mount Sion and there imbrace Jesus Christ who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to such as believe Upon which Mount hee standeth holding forth the golden Scepter of his peace desiring us to imbrace him and is crying
house and his banner over her was love Believe mee more communion with an absent Christ would make more intimation in a divine manner of our peace with him wee desire to blesse these that are above the reach of all these disputings and questionings that wee are so much subject unto III. This is a sealing time to a Christian when hee is much in the exercise 〈◊〉 secret Prayer and of much conversing and corresponding with God in that duty as is clear from that word in Dan. 9. 21. when Daniel was praying at the evening oblation in the â—3 verse he meets with a divine intimation of his peace with God O man greatly beloved of God as the Original hath it O man of great desires for he was desirable indeed and precious to him who holdeth the Saints in his â—ight hand IV. This is also a sealing-time to a Christian when hee is called to the exercise of some great work and is to be put upon some eminent holy employment this is clear Ier. â— 5. Where Ieremiah being called to preach the Gospel unto such a rebellious people â—hen hee hath this eternal election declared â—nto him Before thou wast formed in the womb I knew thee Christ as it were giveth them that to be meat to them for fourty dayes and that in the strength of it they may go many a dayes journey V. There is also another sealing time When â— Christian is first begotten to a precious and everlasting hope for when at first Christians begin to be acquaint with Christ even then sometimes he declareth to them his boundless and everlasting love And that is the ground why some of those who are but babes in Christ â—re so much in the exercise of diligence so much in the exercise of the grace of love and â—o much in the exercise of the grace of tendernesse it is even because of the solemn impression of their interest in Christ that as it â—ere they are daily taken in to read their own names in legible letters in the Lambs book of life VI. And there is this last time that is â— sealing time to a Christian and that is when he is put under some sad and afflicting dispensation When the furnace is hot seven times more then ordinary Then doth God condescenâ—â—o manifest himself to his own When was it that Iohn met with most of the revelationâ— of Heaven Was it not when hee was in the Isle of Patmos for the testimony of Jesus Christâ— Kingdom and patience of our blessed Lord Rev. 1. 9. And in that place 2 Cor. 4. 16. Though our outward man decay yet our inward man is renewed day by day Now wee would presse you to bee more serious in the exercise of this precious grace And I shall tell you the compend of Christianity in these few words 1. By faith to solace your selves in Christs invisible vertues and excellencies And 2. by hope to beâ— viewing that precious Crown and these everlasting dignities that are to bee given to the Saitns And 3 by mortification to be crucifying your idols And 4. by patience to bee possessing your souls untill once yeâ— shall passe through that dark land to thaâ— valley of everlasting delight And as foâ— those that contemne and undervalue thâ— bloud of this everlasting Covenant and 〈◊〉 would have all these that delight not in closing with Christ and these who have noâ— misbelief as their crosse to consider this The wrath of the living and eternal God doâ—â— abide upon them who do not believe according â—â— that word Ioh. 3. 36. He that believeth â—â—ot the wrath of God abideth on him It is a remarkable phrase because of this the wrath of God will not bee a Pilgrime to a mishbeâ—ever that will turn aside to tarry but for 〈◊〉 night but the wrath of God to them who will not believe shall bee their houshold â—ompanion and shall dwell with them and â—o wo to them eternally who have this sad â—nd everlasting companion to abide with â—hem the wrath of a living God There is â—ne thing we would have these knowing that among all these who are eternally to bee dearted from Jesus Christ misbelievers are put â—â— the foremost rank Rev. 21. 8. There he is to â—ut away the fearful and unbelieving And â—om 2 Thess 1. 18. When Christ shall come from heaven with ten thousand of his Saints What â—o do It is even to execute vengeance on thâ—se â—hat obey not the truth of the Gospel that is who do not believe And I pose your own hearts with this whether or not your names â—ee written there in that â—oll among these sho shall be cut off And that word 2 Thes. â— 12. That they might be damned who believed â—ot but took pleasure in unrighteousnesse O but â—he wrath of a dying Christ and of a crucifiâ—d Saviour is dreadful It is more sad and terâ—ible then the wrath of God should have been 〈◊〉 Christ had not died I will tell you O â—ypocrites in Sion the worst news that ever were published in your eâ—â—s and it is this Christ died and rose again and to those that â—re begotten to a lively hope they are glad â—â—dings of great joy and therein they may comfort themselvs but ye may wear a rough garment to deceive and go to heaven in your own apprehension But O the sad disappointment that is waiting on many such And to close with this we would obtest you as ye would answer to your terrible dreadfull Judge that shall stand one day upon his Throne which he shall fix in the clouds we obtest you by all the joyes of heaven and we obtest you by all the everlasting pains of hell and we obtest you by all the curses that are written within the volume of this Book and by all the sweet comfortable promises that are in this everlasting Gospel and by the love that ye owe to your immortal souls and as ye would not crucifie Christ afresh believe and imbrace the offers which are presented now unto you Know ye whether or not this shall be the last summonds that ye shall get to believe That so if ye do reject it Christ shall come from heaven and pronounce that sad and lamentable sentence to you Depart from me 〈◊〉 cursed I know you not Now to him that caâ— blesse these things to you we desire to give praise SERMON III. 1 Joh. 3. 23. This is his Commandment that ye should believe on the Name of his Son Iesus Christ c. IT was a command that Solomon gave unto his Son Prov. 22. 26. That he should not be surety for debt nor should be one of those that stricketh hands But O! what spotlesse breaches of that Command hath our blessed Lord Jesus committed when he did condescend to be surely for our debt and to pay that that was impossible for us to satisfie Hath not Christ made a precious exchange with sinners He wreathed about his own precious neck that
upbraideth then because of their unbelief and then that danger followeth to wit hardnesse of heart this is clear also from Act. 19. 9. Where these two sister devils are conjoyned and locked together unbelief and hardnesse of heart because it is unbelief indeed that hindereth all the graces by which the grace of tendernesse must be maintained V. There is this disadvantage in the sin of unbelief that it is big with childe of apostacy from God and of defection from him according to that word Heb. 3. 12. Beware lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief and there the fruit of it to depart from the living God And certainly it is no wonder that unbelief travel in birth till that cursed childe of Apostacy be brought forth not onely because of this that an unbelieveâ— loseth the thoughts of the excellency of Christ but also because he increaseth in his thoughts of love towards his idols for Christ doth decrease in those who misbelieve and their idols do increase in their love and in their desires and in their estimation VI. There is this sixth disadvantage in the sin of unbelief it hindereth the communication of many signall workings and tokens of the love and favour of the most High according to that sad word that is in Mat. 13. 58. at the close He could not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief Unbelief as it were laid a restraint on Christ that he could not effectuaâ—e these things which he was willing to perform And to shut up our discourse at this time I would only adde these two aggravations which may somewhat enforce what we have spoken I say there are these two aggravations in the sin of unbelief even in his own who have a right and also his call to believe 1. That after Christ hath given most sensible discoveries of himself Wherein yee have seen him as it were face to face yet wee will not believe this is clear from Ioh. 6. 36. Though ye have seen me saith Christ yet yee do not believe in me There is not a manifestation of Christs presence but it is a witnesse against you because of your unbelief Would ye heat the voice of sense that is rectified It is this believe on the Son of God Secondly That notwithstanding of the signal demonstrations of the power of Christ yet though it were the mortifying of some lust and idol within them yet they will not believe but upon new temptations will doubt of his love to them Christ preacheth faith by his Word He preacheth faith by His fufferings He preacheth faith by his dispensations He preacheth faith by his promises he preacheth faith by his rods and if these five instruments will not ingage your hearts to believe what can move them Do not his two wounds in his precious hands preach out this point of Faith believe him Doth not that hole opened in his side preach this Doctrine That we should believe in him And these two wounds that he received in his precious feet do they not preach this That we should believe on a crucified Saviour And we would only say this that sometime it is the case of his own that after the convictions of this that it is their duty to believe and also after some desires to close with Christ yet they find inability to close with him Is it not certain that to will to believe is sometime present with you but how to perform ye know not And I would have a Christian making this foursold use of such a dispensation as that which is most ordinarily when convictions of our duty to believe and some desires to close with Christ is not followed with actual performances 1. To study to have your convictions more deeply rooted within you for it doth sometimes follow that resolutions and minâ—s to believe are not blest with actual believing because the conviction of our duty to believe is not deeply imprinted upon your conscience 2. Be convinced of that desperate enimity and that mystery of iniquity that is within you that yee can have some will to do without ability to perform Wee confesse it is not an ordinary disease in these days to have such a contrariety betwixt a Christians will and his practice our will for the most part being no better then our practice But sometime it is which may make you cry forth O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death 3. That ye would be much in the imploying of Christ that as hee hath given you to will so also hee might make you to do Christ is about to convince his own in such a dispensation as that That faith is the gift of God Faith is so noble a grace that it cannot be spinned out from our resolutions nor from our endeavours Faith is such a divine plant as the Fathers right hand must plant in our souls 4. Let it convince you of the excellency of the grace of Faith for the difficulty of attaining to any thing may speak out the excellency of that thing there is no sin but it may be easily win at There is an easinesse and facility to overtake the paths of our idols but the graces of the Spirit are so excellent things that wee must fight before we attain them And you who are strangers to Christ Iesus and have never known what â—t is to close with him wee would request you in Christs Name to be reconciled to him What know ye O men or rather Atheists but this shall bee the last summonds that yee shall get to believe And that because yee disobey this precious summonds there shall be one presented to you that yee cannot sit I remember of one man who looking upon many thousands that were under his command weeped over them when he considered how that within a few years all these should be laid in their graves and should be in eternity O but it were much of our concernment to bee trying our selves how it is with us We are not afraid that it is a breach of charity to wish that but one of each ten that are within these doors were heirs of the grace of life and had the solide and spiritual expectation of heaven I think if Christ were to come presently to speak to us hee might not onely say to each twelve that are here One of you shall betray me but wee are afraid that hee would say to each twelve that are here Eleven of you shall betray mee and but one only shall passe free O doth it not concern you to enquire where ye shall rest at night when the long shadows of the everlasting evening shall be stretched out upon you I think there are some that are so settled upon their lies that if they were one day in hell and saw all the torments that are there and were brought from it the next day to live on earth they would not repent And more there are some that take them up