Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

SECONDLY, But on the other hand, (1.) Weigh sin in this balance; and, though now it seems but a light thing to you, ye will find it a weight sufficient to turn up an eternal weight of wrath upon you. Even idle words, vain thoughts, and unprofitable actions, weighed in this balance, and considered as following the sinner into eternity, will each of them be heavier than the sand of the sea: time idly spent will make a weary eternity. Now is your seed-time; thoughts, words and actions are the seed sown; eternity is the harvest: though the seed now lies under the clod, unregarded by most men, even the least grain shall spring up at length; and the fruit will be according to the seed, Gal. vi. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption (i. e. destruction;) but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (2.) Weigh in this balance your time, and opportunities of grace and salvation, and you will find them very weighty. Precious time and seasons of grace, sabbaths, communions, prayers, sermons, and the like, are by many now a-days made light of: but the day is coming, when one of these will be reckoned more valuable than a thousand worlds, by those who now have the least value for them. When they are gone for ever, and the loss cannot be retrieved; these will see the worth of them, who will not now see it.

SECONDLY, But on the other hand, (1.) Weigh sin in this balance; and, though now it seems but a light thing to you, ye will find it a weight sufficient to turn up an eternal weight of wrath upon you. Even idle words, vain thoughts, and unprofitable actions, weighed in this ballance, and considered as following the sinner into eternity, will each of them be heavier than the sand of the sea: time idly spent will make a weary eternity. Now is your seed-time; thoughts, words and actions are the seed sown; eternity is the harvest: though the seed now lies under the clod, unregarded by most men, even the least grain shall spring up at length; and the fruit will be according to the seed, Gal. vi. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption (i. e. destruction;) but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (2.) Weigh in this balance your time, and opportunities of grace and salvation, and you will find them very weighty. Precious time and seasons of grace, sabbaths, communions, prayers, sermons, and the like, are by many now a-days made light of: but the day is coming, when one of these will be reckoned more valuable than a thousand worlds, by those who now have the least value for them. When they are gone for ever, and the loss cannot be retrieved; these will see the worth of them, who will not now see it.