33.6 TfE END OF TIME. (p/3c, P. little " what are those terrors which will attend sinners, impenitent sinners, at the end. of time. 1. " A dreadful account must be given ofall this lost and wasted time. When the judge shall ascend his throne in the air, and all the sons and daughters of Adam are brought before him, the grand enquiry will be, what have you done with all the time of life in yonder world ? " You spent thirty or forty. years there, or perhaps se- venty or eighty, and I gave you this time with a thousand opportunities and means of grace and salvation: what have you done with them all ? How many sabbaths did I afford you ? How many sermons have you heard ? How many seasons did I give you for prayer and retirement and converse' with God and your own souls ? Did you improve time well? Did you pray ? Did you converse with your souls and with God ? Or did you suffer time to slide away in a thousand impertinences, and neglect the one thing necessary ?" II. " A fruitless and bitter mourning for the waste and abuse of time," will be another consequence of your folly. Whatsoever satisfaction you may take now, in passing time away merrily and without thinking, it must not pass away so for ever. If theapproaches of death do not . awaken you, yetjudgment will do it. Your consci- ences will be worried with terrible reflexions on your foolish conduct. O could we but hear the complaints of the souls in hell, what multitudes of them would be found groaning out this dismal note, " how hath my time been lost in vanity, and my soul is now lost for ever in distress :" Ilow might I have shone among the saints in heaven, had I wisely improved the time which was given me on earth, given me ón purpose to prepare for death and heaven ? Then they will for ever curse themselves, and call themselves eternal fools, for hearkening to the temp- tations of flesh and sense, which wasted their time and deprived themof eternal treasures. III. Andther of the terrors, which will seize upon im- penitent sinners at the end of time, will be endless des,. pair of the recovery of lost time, and of those blessings; whose hope is for ever lost with it. There are blessings pffere,d to sinful, miserable men in time, which will never
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