344 The proper Improvement SE R M, early youth obftinately refilled the heft in- XII. ftructions, for the molt part continue unre- Lv---1 claimed through their whole lives, and bring themfelves to a miferable end. Let us, therefore, always confider ourfelves as now under probation and difcipline, and that eternal confequences of the greateft mo- ment depend upon our prefent conduct. Now is the feed -time, afterwards cometh the harveft; as every man foweth, fo (hall he reap, he who foweth to the flefh, (hall of the, flefh reap corruption; and he who foweth to the fpirit, (hall of the fpirit reap life ever - lafling, Gal. vi. 3. Now we are children, and according to our behaviour in this Rate, fo fhall our condition be when we ar- rive to maturity, happy or miferable : The children of light fhall then be perfect men ; that which is in part (hall be taken away when that which is perfect is come, and they fhall know even as they are known ; their fidelity in little fhall be rewarded in much, which (hall never be forfeited, never loft. But the children of darknefs, having filled up the meafure of their fins, thall ar- rive to full grown mifery, which St. Jude ver. 13. calleth the blacknefs of darknefs for ever. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of falvation ; you have a price put into your
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