A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

would he not be ashamed to say, thus much Time have I spent in Meals, thus much in loitering and sporting with my Companions, thus much in mending my own Apparel, and an hour, or half an hour in your Work and Service; ⟨p. 71⟩can this Man expect a day's Wages? Christians! do you believe that there is a God of Recompenses? and that there will be a Day of Account, that you dare loiter thus, and waste away your Time, that should be spent in God's Service?

would he not be ashamed to say, thus much Time have I spent in Meals, thus much in loitering and sporting with my Companions, thus much in mending my own Apparel, and an hour, or half an hour in your Work and Service; ⟨p. 71⟩can this Man expect a day's Wages? Christians! do you believe that there is a God of Recompences? and that there will be a Day of Account, that you dare loiter thus, and waste away your Time, that should be spent in God's Service?

Secondly; Consider the baseness and the danger of Pleasures, in four Considerations.

1. The baser a Man is, the more he affects carnal Delights, and is addicted this way; Eccles. 7.4. The Heart of the Wise is in the House of Mourning; but the Heart of Fools is in the House of Mirth. That which wise Men prefer, certainly is better than that which Fools make choice of. Now this is the choice of Fools; wise Men know there is more to be gained by grave Exercises, and by Spectacles of Sorrow, than in the places of carnal rejoicing: They know there is nothing to be seen or heard there, but Snares or Baits; little Wisdom to be gained, and little improvement of Grace and Reason to be made.