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Quest. 2. Do you expect to be in a better capacity to look after these things hereafter? do you hope for more strength, when you are worn out with sin and age, when your back begins to bend, and your joints to shake? Do you think you shall be more at leisure, when your work will be much increased? Know this, that sin grows upon you daily, it preys upon your Vitals: He that is not fit to day, will be less fit to morrow. As for leisure, I must confess you may have leisure enough in another World, to think of these things. But I wish you well to consider whether it be great wisdom to repent in this world, or in another. I would be loath to be repenting in another, it's sad weeping indeed there, where tears shall never be dried up. I have told you oft that God faith, to day, and it is both wickedly and foolishly done of man to say, to morrow. I must tell you but so, that it is a dreadful hazard that every delaying Sinner doth run: It is a question whether God may not deny his Grace, stop the Preachers mouth, stop his ears, and stop your breath: And where are you then with your to ⟨p. 352⟩morrow? delays in these affairs always cost dear, they have cost many thousands dear already, and if you make no more hast than you have done, they will cost you dear too.

Quest. 2. Do you expect to be in a better capacity to look after these things hereafter? do you hope for more strength, when you are worn out with sin and age, when your back begins to bend, and your joynts to shake? Do you think you shall be more at leisure, when your work will be much increased? Know this, that sin grows upon you daily, it preys upon your Vitals: He that is not fit to day, will be less fit to morrow. As for leisure, I must confess you may have leisure enough in another World, to think of these things. But I wish you well to consider whether it be great wisdom to repent in this world, or in another. I would be loath to be repenting in another, it's sad weeping indeed there, where tears shall never be dried up. I have told you oft that God faith, to day, and it is both wickedly and foolishly done of man to say, to morrow. I must tell you but so, that it is a dreadful hazard that every delaying Sinner doth run: It is a question whether God may not deny his Grace, stop the Preachers mouth, stop his ears, and stop your breath: And where are you then with your to ⟨p. 352⟩morrow? delays in these affairs always cost dear, they have cost many thousands dear already, and if you make no more hast than you have done, they will cost you dear too.