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Secondly, make conscience of the little time you ¹have; O it is but a little time you have, let that be consecrated and devoted to God: it is eternal happiness that you look for hereafter, why should you not be willing to spend as much of this little time for it as can be?

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Thirdly, labour to be exact in all that you do, for ¹you are working for eternity. As Zeuxis the Painter, when he was asked, why he was so accurate in his Painting, says he, I Paint for eternity: Let us in ²our Christian profession be exact in our way, because we live for eternity; There is nothing that does make men so accurate in their way as this; and let the men of the world know, that this is the reason of the exactness of the ways of Gods people, because they know they live to eternity. Hypocrites, who in Religious duties aim only at some present, some temporal good, they are not exact, they rest in outsides; but the Saints who make eternity their aim, are exact in all things, especially those things that have a more immediate influence into eternity.

Thirdly, labor to be exact in all that you do, for ¹you are working for eternity. As Zeuxis the Painter, when he was askt, why he was so accurate in his Painting, says he, I Paint for eternity: Let us in ²our Christian profession be exact in our way, because we live for eternity; There is nothing that does make men so accurate in their way as this; and let the men of the world know, that this is the reason of the exactness of the ways of Gods people, because they know they live to eternity. Hypocrites, who in Religious duties aim onely at some present, some temporal good, they are not exact, they rest in outsides; but the Saints who make eternity their aym, are exact in all things, especially those things that have a more immediate influence into eternity.