Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…

So I say, who knoweth but that the Lord hath given men health and wealth, and prospered them here and there in the World, that so they might improve these mercies and good things, to the honour of him that gave them, and for their own spiritual and eternal comfort: If therefore they altogether neglect this season, let them look that God will blast their estates, and smite them with sickness, yea, and that a worse thing shall befall them. Nevertheless,

So I say, who knoweth but that the Lord hath given men health and wealth, and prospered them here and there in the World, that so they might improve these mercies and good things, to the honour of him that gave them, and for their own spiritual and eternal comfort: If therefore they altogether neglect this season, let them look that God will blast their estates, and smite them with sickness, yea, and that a worse thing shall be•al them. Nevertheless,

4. The time of Adversity is a season which ought likewise to be improved: Hence, this Apostle saith, Redeem the time, because the days are evil, Eph. 5. 16. The times were then as they are now. It was in the Apostles days a time of Persecution and suffering to the People of God, therefore he calls that time an evil day: Now in this season, time was to be redeemed: the worse the times are, the better Christians ought to be; if the times be very bad, Christians ought to be very good:

4. The time of Adversity is a season which ought likewise to be improved: Hence, this Apostle saith, Redeem the time, because the dayes are evil, Eph. 5. 16. The times were then as they are now. It was in the Apostles dayes a time of Persecution and suffering to the People of God, therefore he calls that time an evil day: Now in this season, time was to be redeemed: the worse the times are, the better Christians ought to be; if the times be very bad, Christians ought to be very good: