Consider and regard these things, and lay them to thy heart before
it be too late to recover thyself, by repenting of the one and
desiring to close in with the other.
Oh, I say, regard, regard; for hell is hot, God's hand is up, the
law is resolved to discharge against thy soul. The judgment-day is
at hand; the graves are ready to fly open; the trumpet is near the
sounding; the sentence will ere long be past, and then you and I
cannot call time again.
Reckon with thy own heart every day before thou lie down to sleep,
and cast up what thou hast received from God and done for him, and
where thou hast also been wanting. This will beget praise and
humility, and put thee upon redeeming the day that is past; whereby
thou wilt be able, through the continual supplies of grace, in some
good measure to drive thy work before thee, and to shorten it as thy
life doth shorten, and mayst comfortably live in the hope of
bringing both ends sweetly together.
WATCHFULNESS.
He that will keep water in a sieve, must use more than ordinary
diligence. Our heart is a leaky vessel; and therefore we ought to
give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest
at any time we should let them slip.
CONSTITUTION-SINS.
They that name the name of Christ, let them depart from their
constitution-sin, or if you will, the sin that their temper most
inclines them to.
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