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be
done
in
this
?"
Have
you
not often experienced your
.own
disappointment
and
folly
by these delays
?
And yet
have you ever so
repented,
as
to
learn to
mend them
?
So-
lomon
tells
us,
I
ccles.
iii,.
1.
There
is
atime
for
every
purpose,
and every work,
under
the sun
;"
a
proper and
agreeable
time for every lawful work
of
nature
and
life
;
and
it
is the business
and care
of
a
wise
man
to
do
proper
work
in
proper
time;
but
when
we
have
let
slip the
proper
season, how
often
have
we
been
utterly
disappointed
?
Have
we
not
sustained great
inconveniencies
?
And,
sometimes,
it hath
so
happened,
that
we
could never do
that
work or business
at
all,
because
another proper
sea-
son
for
it
hath never
offered
:
Time bath been
no
more.
Felix
put
off his discourse with
Paul,
about
the
"
faith
of
Christ, and righteousness, and
judgment
to
come, to
a
more convenient
time, which
probably
never came";
Acts
xxiv. 25.
And the
word
of
God teaches
us,
that,
if
we
neglect our salvation
in
the present
day
of
grace,
the
angel,
in my
text,
is
ready to
swear,
that
"
time
'8
hall
be
be
longer."
Here
permit
me
to
put
in
a short
word to those, who
have
lost much time already.
O
my friends
!
begin now to do,
what
in
you lies
to
regain
it, by
double
diligence,
in-the matters of your
sal-
vation,
lest
the voice
of
the arch -angel should
finish
your
time of trial,
and
call
you
to
judgment
before
you
are
prepared.
What
time
lies
before
you,
for
this
double improve-
ment,
God
only
knows
The remnant of the
measure
of
your
days
is
with
him,
and every evening the number
is
diminished
;
Let not
the rising
sun
upbraid
you with con-
tinued
negligence.
Remember your former
abuses
of
hours,
and
months,
and
years, in
folly
and
sin,
or,
at
best,
in
vanity and trilling:
Let
these thoughts of
your
past
conduct,
lie with such
an effectual
weight on
your
hearts, as
to
keep
you
ever vigorous
in
present
duty.
Since
you have been
so lazy
and loitering,
in your
christian race,
in
time past, take
larger
steps
daily,
and
stretch
all
the powers
of
your
souls
to
hasten towards
the
crown
and
the
prize.
Hearken
to
the
voice
of
God,
in
his
word,
with
stronger attention
and
zeal to
profit
Pray
to
a
long- suffering
God
with
double
fervency
:
cry
aloud,
and
give
him
no
rest,
till
your
sinful soul
is