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THE
END
OF'
TIME.
[Disc.
I.
influences
of
the
blessed
Spirit?
Have
I
such an
interest
in the
covenant
of
grace
as
takes
away
the sting
of
death,
as
turns
the
curse into
a
blessing,
and
changes the
dark
scenes
of
death into the commencement
of a
new
and
.
everlasting
life
?
This
is
that preparation
for
dying,
for
which
our
time
of
life
was
given
us,
and happy are those
who
are
taught of
God,
to
make this use
of
it.
Judgment
is
making haste toward
us;
months
and
days
of
divine
patience are
flying
swift
away,
and the
last great
day
is
just
at hand:
Then
we
must
give
an
ac-
count of
"
all
that
has been done in the
body,
whether
it
has been
good
or
evil," z
Cor.
v. 10.
And what a
dismal
.
and
distressing surprize
will
it
be,
to have the
Judge
come
upon
us
in
a
blaze
of
glory
and
terror,
while
we
have
no
good
account
to
give
at
his
demand
?
And yet this
is
the very end
and
design
of
all
our
time, which
is
length-
ened out
to us
on this side
the
grave,
and
of
all the
ad-
vantages
that
we
have enjoyed in this
life,
that
we
may be
ready
to
render
up
our account,
with
joy
to the
Judge
of
all
the
earth.
Heaven
is
not
ours
by
birth
and inheritance,
as
lands
and houses
on
earth
descend
to us from
our earthly
pa-
rents.
We, as
well as they,
are
by
nature
unfit for
heaven,
and
children
of wrath;
but
we
may be
born
again,
we
may
be
born
of God,
and become
heirs
of
the heavenly
inheritance through
Jesus Christ:
We
may
be renewed
into the
temper and spirit
Of
heaven
;
and
this
life
is
the
only
season
that
is
given
us
for
this
important
change
:
Shall
we
let
our
days and
years
pass
away,
one after
another
in
long succession,
and continue
the children
of
wrath
still? Are
we
contented
to
go
on this
year
as the
last, without
a
title to heaven,
without a
divine 'temper,
gird
without any
preparation
for the business,,
or
the
blessedness
of
that
happy
world
?
VI.
When
this
life comes
to
an
end,
"the
time
of
all
our
earthly comforts and
amusements
shall
be no
more." We
shall have
none
of
these
sensible
things
around
us
to
employ
or
entertain
our
eyes
or
our
ears,
to gratify
our
appetites,
to
sooth
our passions,
or to
support
our
spirits in
distress. All
the infinite variety
of
cares,
labours and
joys,
which
surround
us here,
shall
be
no
more;
life with all
the
busy
scenes,
and the
pleasing satisfactions
of
it,
dissolve
and perish
together..;