The Life of Faith. nothing. You re ina race,and mufi not fend [tí11: Youarc in a fight, and mu not ceafe. Your work is great ; much of it is undone. Your enemies are not idle : Death will not [top : the Judge is coming,and (fill beholds you : and Heaven orHell are ready to receive our ending life, and tell us how we fpent our time : And can you find time to (pare ? Yon are not made as Weather-cocks, to [land up on high for men to look at, and by turning about with every wind, to (hew them which way it fandeth.. Turn not your lives into that curie, Levit. 26. zo. [roilfloat j cndyeurffrengtb in vain.] Beli:ve it, Time mufi be reviewed. Theday is near, when every man of you had rather find it in your accounts, [fo manyhours (pent in (elf-examination, and holy meditation ; fo many in reading theWord of God ; fo many (pent in fervent prayer ; and fo many in doing good toothers] than [fomany (pent in need- ids (ports and pleafures; fo many in idlenefs andvain dif- courfes; and fo many in the lets neceffary matters of the world.] Ask thofe that tempt you to millUpend your time, whetherat death and Judgement they had rather themfelves have a lifeofholy diligence to review, or a life confumed in vanity, and tranfitory delights. You will not fu(fer impertinencies to interrupt your coun- fcls, and ferious butinefs in the world : You'l tell intruders, that you are bufie, and cannot have while to attend them. And are you going into Heaven or Hell, and have but a few daics timeof preparation (God knows how few) and yet can you have while to pats this precious time in vain ? O what would you not give ere long for orie of the hours that you now mif -(pend ? When the oath is performed, Rev. a o.6. [That Time J all be no longer.] Wonderful ! that men can find Time for any thing , Rave that for which they had their'time Non tam bene vivant, fed quamdiu confiiderant (inqu t Seneca) cum omnibus pa ft contingere ut bene vivant; ut diu nul;i.] To live well is bothpaßble and neceffary, and yet is ditregarded To live long, is neither poffible, nor neceffary; and yet is fought by almott all. Incipiunt vivere cum defcnendum ef? : imam qui4 dam ante defierunt vivere, quam inciperent. Sen. It's unf a- fonable we thould begin to live,whcn we thould make an Lnd: but it's molt unhappy to have madeart end, before they do K a begin
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