yea, and not only run, but "_so_ run;" that is, as I
have said, run earnestly, run continually, strip off every thing that
would hinder in his race with the rest. Well then do you so run.

1. And now let us examine a little. Art thou got into the right way?
Art thou in Christ's righteousness? Do not say, 'Yes,' in thy heart,
when, in truth, there is no such matter. It is a dangerous thing, you
know, for a man to think he is in the right way, when he is in the
wrong. It is the next way for him to lose his way; and not only so,
but if he run for heaven, as thou sayest thou dost, even to lose that
too. Oh! this is the misery of most men, to persuade themselves that
they run right, when they have never one foot in the way! The Lord
give thee understanding here, or else thou art undone for ever.

Prithee, soul, search when was it thou turned out of thy sins and
righteousness, into the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I say, dost
thou see thyself in him? and is he more precious to thee than the
whole world? Is thy mind always musing on him? and also to be walking
with him? Dost thou count his company more precious than the whole
world? Dost thou count all things but poor, lifeless, empty, vain
things, without communion with him? Doth his company sweeten all
things; and his absence embitter all things? Soul, I beseech thee be
serious, and lay it to heart, and do not take things of such weighty
concernment as the salvation or damnation of thy soul, without good
ground.

2. Art thou unladen of the things of this world, as pride, pleasures,
profits, lusts, vanities? What! dost thou think to run fast enough,
with the world, thy sins, and lusts, in thy heart? I tell thee, soul,
they that have laid all aside, every weight, every sin, and are got
into the nimblest posture, they find work enough to run; so to run as
to hold out.

To run through all that opposition, all the jostles, all the rubs,
over all the stumbling blocks, over all the snares, from all the
entanglements that the devil, sin, the world, and their own hearts,
lay before them; I tell thee, if thou art going heavenward, thou wilt
find it no small or easy matter. Art thou therefore discharged and
unladen of these things? Never talk of going to heaven if thou art
not. It is to be feared thou wilt be found among the many that "will
seek to enter in, and shall not be able."

THE SECOND USE.--If so, then in the next place, What will become of
them that are grown weary be