Of thoughtfulness for the morrow with an appendix concerning the immoderate desire of fore-knowing…Of thoughtfulnes for the morrow with an appendix concerning the immoderate desire of fore-knowing…

1. What portion or measure of time may be here signified by to morrow, for some time it must signify, in the first place, as fundamental to the further meaning. Not abstractly, or for it self, but as it is the Continent of such or such things as may fall within that time. And so that measure of time may, 1. Admit, no doubt, to be taken strictly for the very next day, according to the literal import of the word to morrow. But 2. It is also to be taken in a much larger sense, for the whole of our remaining time, all our futurity in this world. Indeed, the whole time of our Life on Earth is spoken of in the Scriptures, but as a day. Let him alone that he may accomplish as an hireling his day. Job ⟨p. 4⟩14. 6. We are a sort of [Greek or Hebrew], short-lived Creatures, we live but a day, take the whole of our time together. Much less strange is it that the little residue, the future time that is before us, which we do not know how little it may be, should be spoken of but as a day. Experience hath taught even sensual Epicures so to account their remaining time: Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall dye. i. e. Very shortly. They were right in their Computation, but very wrong in their Inference. It should have been, Let us watch and pray to day, we are to dye to morrow, let us labour for Eternity because time is so short. But say they, Let us eat and drink to day, for to morrow we shall dye. A day to eat and drink was, it seems, a great gain. And if the phrase were not so used, ⟨p. 5⟩to signify all the residue of our future time, yet by consequence it must be so understood. For if we take to morrow in the strictest sense for the very next day; they that are not permitted, with solicitude, to look forward so far as the very next day; much less may they to a remoter and more distant time. Yea and we may in some sense extend it not only to all our future time, but simply to all future time as that measures the concernments and affairs, not of this world only, but, which is more considerable, even of that lesser select community, the Kingdom of God in it, mentioned in the foregoing Verse. Which Kingdom, besides its future eternal State, lies also spread and stretched throughout all time unto the end of the World.