CONCLUSION. 609 lancing between the world and Him who made it, who resolve to reform, but make the resolution a substitute for the per- formance - and oh how large, and in many points how 'respectable, a class this is ! - to these, to the doubting, and the dilatory, we would take the liberty to speak plainly. It is much to be feared, that secret, unconscious infidelity lies at the bottom of the little progress you make in your spiritual attainments. If the truth, cer- tainty, and inconceivable importance of eternal things were once rooted and grounded in the heart, it would infal- libly quicken both devotion and practice. We know, but we do not act upon the knowledge, that our great business in this world is to determine our choice for eternity. This is not a bye work, which may be deferred to any time at the hazard of its not being done at all; it is the im- perious business of the present hour, the next may not be granted us. It is not an affair to be kept in reserve, an affifir z 3
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