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Disc.
1.1
TFtE END
Or
.TINE.
ns5
Have
a
care
then
that
you do
not
make any
of
there your
chief
hope,
for they
are but the
things
of
time,
they
are'
all short
and dying enjoyments.
Under
the various calamities
of
this
life
we find a
va-
riety
of
sensible reliefs,
and
our
thoughts
and
souls
are
called
away
from
their
sorrows,
by
present
business,
or
diverted by
present pleasure; but
all
these avocations
and
amusements
will
forsake
us.
at
Once,
when
we
drop
this
mortal tabernacle
;
we
must
enter
alone into the world
of
spirits,
and
live
without
them there.
Whatsoever agonies
or terrors,
or huge distresses
we
may meet
with in
that
unknown
region,
we
shall have
none
of
these sensible
enjoyments,
to soften
and allay
them,
no
drop
of
sweetness to
mix
with
that
bitter
cup,
no scenesof
gaiety and
merriment
to relieve the
gloom
of
that
utter
darkness, or to sooth the anguish
of that eter-
nal heart
-ach. O
take
,heed,
my
friends,
that
your
souls
do
not
live,
too much on any
of
the satisfactions
of
this
life,
that
your
affections
be
not
set upon them
in
too
high
a
degree,
that
you make
them
not your
idols and
your
chief
good, lest you be
left
helpless
and miserable
under
.everlasting
disappointment,
for they
cannot
follow
you
to
the world
of souls;
they
are the
things
of
time,
and
they have no place
in
eternity.. Read what
caution
the
apostle
Paul
gives
us,
in
our
converse
with the dearest
comforts
of
life;
i
Goy.
vii.
(2g.
"
The
time
is
short
;
and
let
those
who have
the largest
affluences
of
temporal
bles-
sings, who have
the
nearest
and
kindest
relatives,
and
the
most endeared
friendships,
he
mortified
to
them,
and
be,
in
some sense,
as
though they had them not, for
ye,cannot
possess,
them long."
St.
Peter`'
joins,in
the
same
sort
of
advice
;
1
Pet.
iv. 7.
"The
end
of
all
things
is
at
hand,
therefore
be ye sober,"
be
ye
moderate
in
every
enjoyment
on,
earth, and
prepare
to
part
with
them
all,
when the
angel pronounces,
that
time shall
be
no
longer
:
Ali
is
Sentence puts
an
effectual
period to every
joy
in
thislife,
and
to
every hope
that
is
hot eternal.
Thus
we
have
taken a brief
survey,
what are the solemn
and
awful thoughts,
relating
to
such mortal
creatures
in
general,
which
are
contained
in
this voice
or sentence
of
the
angel,
that
time
shall
be
no longer.
In
the
Second place,
let
us
proceed
further
and enquire
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