Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…

II. Therefore I next advise you and entreat you, that you live not as at a great distance from Eternity, nor foolishly flatter your selves with the deceitful promises of long Life: And were it sure to be an hundred years, remember how quickly and certainly they will end. O Time is nothing! Therefore think of nothing in this World as separated from the World to come. Whatever you are doing, or saying, or thinking, the Boat is hasting to the Gulf: You are posting to Death and Judgment: Which way ever you go, by wealth or poverty, health or sickness, busy or idle, single or married, you are going still to the Grave and to Eternity. Judge then of every thing as it tendeth to that end: And think of nothing as not related as a means, to the near and everlasting ⟨p. 89⟩end: O choose and do that which Reason and Conscience telleth you, that you will at last earnestly wish that you had chosen and done; when you are tempted to be prayerless and averse to good, or to run to Lust or sinful Pleasure, ask your selves seriously; how will this look in the final review? What shall I think of this at last? Will it be my comfort, or my torment? O judge as you will judge at last.

II. Therefore I next advise you and intreat you, that you live not as at a great distance from Eternity, nor foolishly flatter your selves with the deceitful promises of long Life: And were it sure to be an hundred years, remember how quickly and certainly they will end. O Time is nothing! Therefore think of nothing in this World as separated from the World to come. Whatever you are doing, or saying, or thinking, the Boat is hasting to the Gulf: You are posting to Death and Judgment: Which way ever you go, by wealth or poverty, health or sickness, busie or idle, single or married, you are going still to the Grave and to Eternity. Judge then of every thing as it tendeth to that end: And think of nothing as not related as a means, to the near and everlasting ⟨p. 89⟩end: O choose and do that which Reason and Conscience telleth you, that you will at last earnestly wish that you had chosen and done; when you are tempted to be prayerless and averse to good, or to run to Lust or sinful Pleasure, ask your selves seriously; how will this look in the final review? What shall I think of this at last? Will it be my comfort, or my torment? O judge as you will judge at last.