Chap: 7 i4s Expofition wpm the Book of Q$, Verf. 6. 6Q knew indeed their lives were no longer. Therefore though I only touch this fubjett,yet,doe ye dwell upen it, and flay long in your thoughts upon the flaortneis ofyour lives : Common truths neg. leFled, cauli a negleil of every truth. Had we more ferious thoughts ofHeaven and hell, that thefe are, and what thefe are; that there is a God, and who he is;that there will be ajudgement, and what it will be ; we (hould more profitably improve and trade our time and tallents. Secondlynote, Time paffeth irrecoverably. When the weavers lhuttle is once out of his hand, 'tis gone prefently ; there is no hope time pefj fhould be recalled, or time in motion flopt : To confider time un- der that notion, thould make us very good husbands of our time, or ( as the apotlle advifes) to redeem the time. Redemptions . arc made by purchafe,to redeem a thing,is tobuy it with aprice; the pricewe redeem time with, is our labour and faithful travel. It N matter of mourning, to confider, that fo little care is taken . in fpending that, which when' it it gone, we have no hope it eau be reftored to AS again. Thirdly,In that lob complained before,that his life was fo long, and now complaineth of the fliortnefs or fwiftnefs of his life, we may note ; That, Man thinks good dayes end too fóon, and that evil dayes flay too long, or will never have an end. We love the company ofgood dayes,and are therefore lorry when theydepart : when the Difci- pies were upon the Mount,and had filch a good day ofit,howde- firons were they to have continued there, and forry they were the . daywas at an end. Mager ( faith Peter) it ís goodfor as to be here :: The fudden paging of our comforts, is our trouble. Time is alwayesof the fame pace, no creature keeps his pace more evenly then time dotti, italwayes movesat the fame rate, neither faller nor flower ; but a man thinks this time fhort, and that time long.; this time fpeedy, and that time flow; according to the feveral ob- jeas he meets with,and to the conditions wherein he is:Fourth. ly obfcrve, That hope is the laft refuge of the foul : Myy dayes are fpent without bope,myhope is (pent too ; IfThad hope left, I had tome- what left, but my hope is gone. Iris fo in natural things; it isfo in fpirituai things. The Apoflle, Heb, 6. tells uv, that hope is the anchor ofthe foul, fure and ftedfall ; while hope holds, comfort holds,and when htpe's gone,, all's gone. Obferve laf}ly, That
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