Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and…

When your souls are drowsy, and you are forgetting your God, and your latter end, and the matters of Eternity have little force and savour with you; when you grow lazy and ⟨p. 53⟩superficial, and religion seems a lifeless thing; and you do your duty as if it were in vain or against our wills, when you can lose your time, and delay repentance, and friends, and profit, and reputation, and pleasure can be heard against the Word of God, and take you off when you do all by the halves, and languish in your Christian course, as near to death; Stir up your souls with the urgency of such Questions as these.

When your souls are drowsie, and you are forgetting your God, and your latter end, and the matters of Eternity have little force and savour with you; when you grow lazie and ⟨p. 53⟩superficial, and religion seems a lifeless thing; and you do your duty as if it were in vain or against our wils, when you can lose your time, and delay repentance, and friends, and profit, and reputation, and pleasure can be heard against the Word of God, and take you off when you do all by the halves, and languish in your Christian course, as near to death; Stir up your souls with the urgency of such Questions as these.

Qu. 1. Can I do no more then this for God! Who gave me all? Who deserveth all? Who seeth me in my duties and my sins? When he puts me purposely on the trial, what I can do for his sake and service, Can I do no more? Can I love him no more? and obey, and watch, and work no more?

Qu. 2. Can I do no more then this for Christ? For him that did so much for me? that lived so exactly; obeyed so perfectly; walked so inoffensively and meekly; despising all the baits, and honours, and riches of the