Ignorantia scientifica. A brief essay on mans not knowing his time: the just inferences…

THE famous Waldo, whose Name has been so considerable among the Waldensian Witnesses of our Lord, was brought home to GOD, and made a Prayerful, Watchful, Fruitful Walker with GOD all the rest of his Days, upon his beholding a Young Friend of his fall down Suddenly Dead before him. And what? Shall never any more, come to Think on their Ways, and make haste into a Walk with GOD, upon such an awakening Spectacle!

THO' the Child Samuel, were a very Religious Child, and a bright Example of EARLY PIETY, we find, that no less than Three times over, the most Holy GOD, from the Holy of Holies, called unto him, and he was not aware whose Voice it was; he was not sensible that there was the Voice of GOD in the call. Alas, 'Tis an Error whereto we are all too often liable; and the less of EARLY PIETY there is in Young People, the more liable they are unto it. Children, There is a Voice to you, in what you have seen; and a Voice as much directed unto you, as if you were like Samuel, by Name called upon: and it is a Voice wherein your EARLY PIETY is very audibly & awfully called for. But are you aware, whose Voice it is? 'Tis the Voice of the most Glorious GOD, and of a SAVIOUR waiting that He may be Gracious to you. Oh! Listen to the Voice, Answer to the Voice; and say, Lord, Speak, for thy Servant hears; and I will be thy Servant: I am Ready to comply with thy whole will in all hearty Obedience! But what, Oh! what is the Voice, to be thus hearkened to! The Voice is, Oh! Immediately go through' the Process ⟨p. 22⟩of Repentance, which the Life of thy Soul depends upon! The Voice is; Oh! Immediately by coming into the Covenant of GOD get thy Soul bound up in the Bundle of Life! The Voice is, 'Oh! Immediately Deny all Ungodliness & Worldly Lusts, and come into the Resolutions of a Godly and a Sober and a Righteous Life! Thou knowest not how soon thy Time to do these Necessary Things may be over with thee.

THO' the Child Samuel, were a very Religious Child, and a bright Exemple of EARLY PIETY, we find, that no less than Three times over, the most Holy GOD, from the Holy of Holies, call'd unto him, and he was not aware whose Voice it was; he was not sensible that there was the Voice of GOD in the call. Alas, 'Tis an Error whereto we are all too often liable; and the less of EARLY PIETY there is in Young People, the more liable they are unto it. Children, There is a Voice to you, in what you have seen; and a Voice as much directed unto you, as if you were like Samuel, by Name called upon: and it is a Voice wherein your EARLY PIETY is very audibly & awfully called for. But are you aware, whose Voice it is? 'Tis the Voice of the most Glorious GOD, and of a SAVIOUR waiting that He may be Gracious to you. Oh! Listen to the Voice, Answer to the Voice; and say, Lord, Speak, for thy Servant hears; and I will be thy Servant: I am Ready to comply with thy whole will in all hearty Obedience! But what, Oh! what is the Voice, to be thus hearkened to! The Voice is, Oh! Immediately go thro' the Process