St THE WOMÁI TO -e5ME. time well ? Did you pray ? Did you converse with your souls and with God ? Or did you suffer time to slide away in a thou - sand impertinences, and neglect the one thing necessary P' H. " A fruitless and bitter mourning fer the waste and' ahuse of time," will be another consequence of your folly.. Whatsoever satisfaction you may take now in passing time away merrily and without thinking, it most not pass away so for ever. If the approaches of death do not awaken you, yet judgment will do it. Your consciences will be worried with terrible reflec- tions on your foolish conduct. O could we but hear the complaints of the souls in hell what multitudes of them would beioend groaning out this dis mal note, " how bath my time been lost in vanity, and my soul is now lost for ever in distress :" How might I have shone among the saints in heaven, had I wisely improved the time which was given me on earth, given me on purpose to prepare for death and heaven? Then theÿ will for ever curse themselves, and call themselves eternal fools for hearkening to the temptations of flesh and sense, which.wasted their time and deprived them of eternal treasures. III. Another of the terrors which will seize upon impenitent sinners at the end of time, will be endless despair of the recovery of lost time, and of those blessings whose hope is for ever lost with it. There are blessings offered to sinful miserable men in time; which will never be offered in eternity, nor put within their reach for ever. The gospel bath no calls, no invitations, no encouragements, no promises for the dead who have lost and Wasted their time and are perished without hope. The region of sorrow, whither the judge shall drive impenitent sinners, is a dark and desolate place, where light and hope can never come: but fruitless repentnce, with horrors and agonies of soul, and doleful despair reign through that world, without one gleam of light, or hope, or one moment of intermission. Then will despairing sinners gnaw their tongues for anguish of heart, and curse themselves with long. execrations, and curse their fellow-sinners, who assisted them to waste their time, and to ruin their souls: ' IV. The last terror I shall mention, which will attend sin. nere at the end of time is, " an eternal suffering of all the pain ful and dismal consequences of lost and wasted time." Not one smile from the face of God for ever, not one glimpse of love or mercy in his countenance, not one word of grace from Jesus Christ; who was once the chief messenger of the grace of God, not one favourable regard from all the holy saints and angels; but thefire and brimstone burn-withóut end, and the smoke of this their torment will ascend for ever and ever, before the throne of God and the Lamb ; Rev. xiv. lì.
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