5 50 Cflap i4.. fin Expolittor n on the Book of Joa. Verf. t, Secondly, Be perfwaded that your daies are few, is eafe to fay our daies are few, but it is hard to believe it : Every age hopes to fee thenext age. The child hopes to be a Youth, and the Youth to be a Man, the man hopes to be an old man, and he that is an oldman hàth hopes to be very old, he that is very old , hopes to live more then a few daies yet, or that yet he Mail not die thefe many daies. 'Aril becaufe every age bath hopes to live that which is to come, it loth not live that which is pre- fent.We (mould domore work}but that we hope for more daies. Thirdly, Seeing the- time of thislife is fhort and haters Out ofour hands, let us make hafte to lay" hold upon eternal life. Abgib hoc mo_ our daies here are few fuch as a 'child tray cormt but h daies innumerable, fuch as no man can count or depend upon eternity. them. All our daies are but few , and every man living bath lived a few daies already , pofliibly thy few daies paff are 'all . that thou limit paffe. Say not ofRepentance I Will repent-to morrow, Say not to Chriff when he `'is tendered thee r6 'day; come again :to morrow. ßoaft not thy Pelfof to morrow' ( faith Solomon, Fröv.27. f.) for thou &noweîf not what a day ( even the day thounow haft ) may bring forth. Poflible this day may bring forth thy death ( for the daies of man are few) and then how fhall to morrow bring forth thy Repentance, or make thee another offer ofa This-daies refafed Chrift ;` Wil-tthoti boat} of the births of tomorrow, when as thou knoweft not whether a morrow (hall be brought forth to thee ; Man (whofoever thou art) war not thou born of a' woman ? if" fo, thy daies are few, thy bufneffes are many, and there is one thing necefiary. We fay of force men,that they dó much in a little time:and,truly howmuch foever any man bath to do , he bath but a little time to do it in. Few daies fire are but a little time, and all the time we have is but a few daies. Befides , Thefe few daies are all the working- daies that ever we flail have ; Let this be .a fpurre to diligence and to duty ? Hear andobeythe counfel of the Preacher (Ecc. 9.10. Whatfoever ,thy hand findeth tp doe, ddo' it with thy might , for there is no wore,, nor device, nor knowledge, `nor wifdome in thegrave whi-her thougoef . InHeaven there is nothingbut refl., and in Hell though there be no ref}, yet there is no labour.InHell there is nothingbut wages, and in Heaven there is nothing but reward, our 'whole work lies in the few daies which are on this fide both, Fourthly,
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