Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

3. These thoughts […] make us wise to improve our morning to the best advantage: when we see night coming, and a great deal before us to do, this doubles our diligence, whiles many times we idle away much of the day, as long as we think it a great while to night; as long as we […] the Sun to be in its height, we sleep, but when it is near setting, […] redeem the time. Oh how laborious Christians should we be, how sedulous in the work of God, if we did but carry along with us in our minds the thoughts of the evil day, did we but with a cautious expectation every day look for a change!

3. These thoughts 〈…〉 make us wise to improve our morning to the best advantage: when we see night coming, and a great deal before us to do, this doubles our diligence, whiles many times we idle away much of the day, as long as we think it a great while to night; as long as we 〈…〉 the Sun to be in its height, we sleep, but when it is near setting, 〈…〉 redeem the time. Oh how laborious Christians should we be, how sedulous in the work of God, if we did but carry along with us in our mindes the thoughts of the evil day, did we but with a cautious expectation every day look for a change!

Use. 1. See here how grievously they provoke God, who in the day of their prosperity mind nothing but their case and pleasure, Amos 6. 1.—it is an iniquity which God cannot bear, as follows in the sequel: it is a note of a wicked man, when he enjoys the favour of God, to do nothing but spend his days in mirth; there are the afflictions of Joseph to mind, yea also and our own change to mind: what was the ground of Jerusalems destruction but this? Lam. 1.9.

Use. 1. See here how grievously they provoke God, who in the day of their prosperity minde nothing but their case and pleasure,