The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

O what heads, what hearts have all those men, that standing against the verge of an endless world, can think they have any time to spare! Hath God given you too much? If not, why do you lose it? If he hath, why are you loth that he should shorten it? You would not throw away your gold, as contemptuously as you do your time; when an hours time is more valuable than gold. Frown on that company that would rob you of half an hours time. Tell them you have something else to do, than to feast, or play, or talk away your time unnecessarily. O tell them you were not made for ⟨p. 67⟩nothing. You are in a race, and must not stand still: You are in a fight, and must not cease. Your work is great; much of it is undone. Your enemies are not idle: Death will not stop: the Judge is coming, and still beholds you: and Heaven or Hell are ready to receive our ending life, and tell us how we spent our time: And can you find time to spare? You are not made as Weather-cocks, to stand up on high for men to look at, and by turning about with every wind, to show them which way it standeth. Turn not your lives into that curse, Levit. 26.20. [You shall spend your strength in vain.] Believe it, Time must be reviewed. The day is near, when every man of you had rather find it in your accounts, [so many hours spent in self-examination, and holy meditation; so many in reading the Word of God; so many spent in fervent prayer; and so many in doing good to others] than [so many spent in needless sports and pleasures; so many in idleness and vain discourses; and so many in the less necessary matters of the world.] Ask those that tempt you to mis-spend your time, whether at death and Judgement they had rather themselves have a life of holy diligence to review, or a life consumed in vanity, and transitory delights.

O what heads, what hearts have all those men, that standing against the verge of an endless world, can think they have any time to spare! Hath God given you too much? If not, why do you lose it? If he hath, why are you loth that he should shorten it? You would not throw away your gold, as contemptuously as you do your time; when an hours time is more valuable than gold. Frown on that company that would rob you of half an hours time. Tell them you have something else to do, than to feast, or play, or talk away your time unnecessarily. O tell them you were not made for ⟨p. 67⟩