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changed into
penitence,
and
renewed to holiness,
till
you have
some good
evidences
of
your sincere
love
to
God,
and
unfeigned
faith in
his Son
Jesús. Never
be
satisfied till
you
are
come
to
a
well
-
grounded hope
through
grace,
that God
is
your friend, your reconciled
Father, that,
when days
and months
are
no
more,
you
may
enter
into
the region
of
everlasting
light
and peace.
But I proceed
to
the last general remark.
"
Learn the
unspeakable happiness
of
those,
who
have improved time
well,
and
who
wait for the end
of
time
with
christian
hope." They are
not
afraid,
or,
at
least, they need
not
be
afraid,
of
the sentence,
nor
the oath
of
this mighty
angel, when he lifts
up
his
hand
to heaven,
and swears,
with'a
loud
voice,
"
there.shall
be time no 'more."
O
blessed
creatures
!
Who
have
so
happily improved
the
time
of
life
and
day
of
grace, as to
obtain the resto-
ration of the
irhage
of
God,
in some degree, on
their
souls,
and
to
recover the favour
of God through
the
gospel
of
Christ, for
which end time
was
bestowed
upon
them They
have
reviewed
their
follies
with.shame
in
the
land of
hope
;
they
have
mourned, and repented of
sin,
ere the
season
of
repentance
was
past,
and are become
new
creatures, and their
lips
and their
lives
declare
the
divine change.
They
have
made
preparation
for death,
for
which
purpose
life
and time
were
given.
Happy
souls,
indeed,
who have
so
valued
time,
as
not
to
let
it
run
off in trifles,
but
have
obtained treasures more valu-
able than
that
time, which
is
gone, even
the
riches of
the
covenant of
grace,
and
the hopes
of
an
eternal inherit-
ance
in glory
!
Happy
such souls,
indeed,
when time
is
no
more with
them
!
Their
happiness
begins,
when the
duration
of
their
mortal
life
is
finished.
Let
us survey this
their hap-
piness
in
a
few
particulars.
The
time
of
their darknesses and
difficulties
is
no
longer
:
The
time
of
painful ignorance and
error
is
come
to
an end
:
You shall wander
no
more in mistake
and
folly you shall
behold
all
things
in
the
light of
God,
and
see
him
face
to face, who
is
the original beauty, and the
eternal
truth. You
shall see
him
without
veils
and
sha-
dows,
without the reflecting
glass
of
his
word
and
ordi-
nances, which,
at
best, gives us.
but
a
faint
glimpse
of
him,
either
in
his
nature
or
wisdom, his
power or good-