Christians should so manage their time and the work that God hath
appointed them to do for his name in this world, that they may not
have part thereof to do when they should be departing this world;
because, if they do not, dying will be a hard work with them,
especially if God awakeneth them about their neglect of their duty.
The way of God with his people is to visit their sins in this life;
and the worst time for thee to be visited by them is when thy life
is smitten down as it were to the dust of death, even when all
natural infirmities break in like a flood upon thee-sickness,
fainting, pains, wearisomeness, and the like: now, I say, to be
charged also with the neglect of duty when in no capacity to do
it-yea, when perhaps so feeble, as scarce able to abide to hear thy
dearest friend in this life speak to thee-will not this make dying
hard? yea, when thou shalt seem both in thine own eyes and also in
the eyes of others, to fall short of the kingdom of heaven for this
and the other transgressions; will not this make dying hard? David
found it hard when he cried, "O spare me a little, that I may
recover strength, before I go hence and be no more." David at this
time was chastened for some iniquity, yea, brought for his folly to
the doors of the shadow of death.
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