The Best Match, Postscript – Publishers advertisement
THE POSTSCRIPT TO THE READER.
NEver did God ſhew greater Love to the Sons of Men, than when he gave the Son of his Love to die for the Sins of Men; yet too many give away their Souls for nothing; and tho they will not now fear for Love in the Day of Grace, ſhall hereafter tremble for fear in the Day of Wrath, and know, when too late, how much Prevention is better than Confuſion.
And thou that wilt not now come to Chriſt, by ſaving Faith in the Day of his Love, to receive him with his Merits and Mercies, to thy eternal Conſolation, ſhalt hereafter be brought to him in the day of Anger to thy eternal Damnation. Now to do the one, and to avoid the other, remember thou art but a Pilgrim and Stranger here, and that the great and chief End of Man, is to glorify God, and ſave his own Soul; That thou may'ſt do this, be admoniſhed carefully to purſue, conſcientiouſly to peruſe, and conſtantly to practiſe what is contained in this Enchiridion, or Pocket-Companion.
The Author thereof thou mayſt ſee at the beginning.
His Qualifications in the Sermon, wherein are many ſweet, ſacred, and Soul-ſaving Truths contained, delivered by the Author in the Pariſh-Church of Potters Pury, in the County of Northampton.
May the Wiſdom of Heaven be opened, and diſtill down ſuch heavenly refreſhing Dews upon theſe ſweet and ſacred Truths, that they may make a deep Impreſſion upon our Hearts, and be ſeated and ſetled in our Minds, and become fruitful in our Lives, to the Honour of God, the Joy of the Author, and to the preſent Comfort, future and eternal Happineſs of the Hearers.
To conclude, That thou mayſt hereby know how to put off the Old Man, and to put on the New Man Chriſt Jeſus, and ſo be made partaker of the Divine Nature, and at laſt come to have the full Fruition of him in Glory, is the earneſt Deſire and Prayer of
Thy Friend and Servant in the Lord, J. N. Miniſter of the Goſpel at Potters Pury, aforeſaid.
Perlege, Vive, Vale.
ADVERTISEMENT.
NEwly printed the Midnight-Cry, a Sermon on the Parable of the Ten Virgins, by J. Maſon, Rector of W. in the County of Bucks. The ſecond Edition, with Addition of two Poems for the Coming of Chriſt, by the ſame Author.
End of the text · Michael Harrison, The Best Match (1691)