Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternity, and mans…Three sermons I. The wrath of God against sinners, II. God's eternitie, and mans…

Thirdly, a man may hence learn, that he ought not to spend his strength in one duty, as to make him unfit for another, for that is not in season; then we miss of the season; though he allow ⟨p. 127⟩time for the duty, if yet he spend his strength in one as to be unfit for another; this is unseasonable.

Thirdly, a man may hence learne, that he ought not to spend his strength in one duty, as to make him unfit for another, for that is not in season; then we misse of the season; though hee allow ⟨p. 127⟩time for the dutie, if yet he spend his strength in one as to be unfit for another; this is unseasonable.

Now for duties occasionally: and we may observe two rules for the clearing of the point.

First, if they be such occasions that may be omitted, as likewise they would hinder another, a man may pass it by; but if a duty that comes in a mans way, that requireth present supply, and that the duty in a mans common course may be gained again, and if the other be omitted, that can never be recalled again, or recovered: Now this is a season for an occasionally duty, as thus; a man to pray in his family: ⟨p. 128⟩now if a necessary occasion come that cannot be done afterwards, a man must omit prayer for the while, for that may afterwards be gained, but the other it cannot be recovered again.