198 NOW OR NEVER. repentance to another time. 0 sirs, for the Lord's' sake, do but live as men that must shortly be buried in the grave, and their souls appear before the Lord, and as men that have but this little time to do all for their everlasting life, that ever must be done. 0 live a<; men that are sure to die, and are not sure to live till to-morrow: and let not the noise of pleasure or worldly business, 9r the chat or scorns of miserable fools, bear down your reason, and make you live as if you knew not what you know; or as if there was any doubt about these things. Who is the man and what is his name, that dares contradict them, and can make it good? 0 do not sin against your knowledge: do not stand still and see your glass runt1ing, and time making such haste, and yet make no more haste yourselves, than if you were not concerned in it: do not, 0 do not slumber, when time and judgment never slumber; nor sit still when you have so much to do, and know all that is now left undone must be undone for ever! Alas, sirs, how many questions of exceeding weight have you yet to be resolved in! whether you are truly sanctified? whether your sins be pardoned? whether you shall be saved when you die? whether you are ready to leave this world and enter upon another? I tell you, the answering of these and many more such questions, is a matter of no small difficulty or concern. And all these must be done in this little and uncertain time. It must be now or never. Live but as men that believe and consider these certain unquestionable things. 10. Lastly, Will you but live as men that believe that the world and the flesh are the deadly enemies of'your salvation? and that believe, that "if any man love the world, (so far) the love ofthe Father is not in him?" and as men that believe that, "if ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, yeshall live;" and that those who are in Christ Jesus, and are freed from condemnation, are such as "walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit?" And thB4: ,
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