S42 ERRORS IN PRAYER. fatless toils of Sisyphus, and of the daughters of Danaus, whose ever-failing efforts prove their labours to be infinite, and their punishment eternal. The wheel of Ixion, which, as it was to be perpe- tually in motion, so the punishment was to have no end ; a doctrine not sostrongly held by many Christians, as it seems to be implied in this blind mythology. Will you not then be most unweariedly fervent in prayer to the God of mercy, for deliverance from the dominion of that sin which, if not forsaken as well as lamented, will be inevitably followed by that punishment which you deprecate, and which will never end ? But such is the love of present ease, and the desire of respite, that you think, perhaps, it is better not " to be tormented before the time." How many now in a state of ir- reversible misery wish they had been tor- mented sooner, that they might not be tormented for ever ! But with you it is not yet to late. With you the day of grace, which to them is over, is not yet
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