Use 2

USE II.

Let this be for a word of solemn warning to all that are in the visible Church, to beware of barrenness there, and what greater caution can there be set before Christians, than the consideration that God looks after every one of them, to see how they behave themselves in pursuit of the profession which they have made? For certainly God is not an idle spectator; and this will hereafter be made awfully to appear. Think what a shame it is to be in the Vineyard, and yet to be unfruitful; and then add to think, that the Lord of the Vineyard sees this, and will let us sooner or later know that he sees it too; and can it be for our comfort to be so found and charged by him in the day of accounts? Do not your own consciences sometimes reflect and accuse you, and tell you how unworthily you carry it, under all the care and husbandry that is laid out upon you? Now when they so do, add to say as the Apostle (1 John 3:20), if our own heart condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knows all things: But,