with such an effectual weight on your hearts as to keep you ever vigorous in present duty. Since you have been so lazy and loitering in your Christian race in time past, take larger steps daily, and stretch all the powers of your souls to hasten towards the crown and the prize. Hearken to the voice of God in his word with stronger attention and zeal to profit. Pray to a long-suffering God with double fervency. Cry aloud and give him no rest, till your sinful soul is changed into penitence and renewed to holiness, till you have some good evidences of your sincere love to God and unfeigned faith in his Son Jesus. Never be satisfied till you are come to a well grounded hope through grace, that God is your friend, your reconciled Father, that when days and months are no more, you may enter into the region of everlasting light and peace.

But I proceed to the last general remark. Learn the unspeakable happiness of those, who have improved time well, and who wait for the end of time with Christian hope. They are not afraid, or, at least, they need not be afraid of the sentence nor the oath of this mighty angel, when he lifts up his hand to heaven and swears, with a loud voice, There shall be time no more.

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O blessed creatures, who have so happily improved the time of life and day of grace, as to obtain the restoration of the image of God in some degree on their souls, and to recover the favour of God through the gospel of Christ, for which end time was bestowed upon them. They have reviewed their follies with shame in the land of hope; they have mourned and repented of sin ere the season of repentance was past, and are become new creatures, and their lips and their lives declare the divine change. They have made preparation for death, for which purpose life and time were given. Happy souls indeed, who have so valued time as not

to let it run off in trifles, but have obtained trea sures more valuable than that time, which is gone, even the riches of the covenant of grace, and the hopes of an eternal inheritance in glory.

Happy such souls, indeed, when time is no more with them! Their happiness begins when the duration of their mortal life is finished. Let us survey this their happiness in a few particulars.

The time of their darknesses and difficulties is no longer: the time of painful ignorance and error is come to an end: you shall wander no more in mistake and folly: you shall behold all things in the light of God, and see him face to face, who is the original beauty and the eternal truth. You shall see him without veils and shadows, without the reflecting glass of his word and ordinances, which at best give us but a faint glimpse of him, either in his nature or wisdom, his power or goodness. You shall see him in himself and in his Son Jesus, the brightest and fairest image of the Father, and shall know him, as you are known; 1 Cor. xiii. 10, 12.

There is no more time for temptation and danger. When once you are got beyond the limits of this visible world, and all the enticing objects of flesh and sense, there shall be no more hazard of your salvation, no more doubting and distressing fears about your interest in your Father's love, or in the salvation of his beloved Son,

There is no more time, nor place for sin to inhabit in you. The lease of its habitation in your mortal body must end, when the body itself falls into the dust you shall feel no more of its powerful and defiling operations either in heart, or life for ever.

The time of conflict with your spiritual adversaries is no longer. There is no more warfare betwixt the flesh and spirit, no more combat with the world and the devil, who by a thousand ways have attempted to deceive you, and bear you off from

your heavenly hope. Your warfare is accomplished, your victory is complete, you are made overcomers through him that has loved you. Death is the last enemy to be overcome; the sting of it is already taken away, and you have now finished the con, quest, and are assured of the crown; 1 Cor. xv. 56, 57.

The time of your distance and absence from God is no more: the time of coldness and indifference and the fearful danger of backsliding are no more: you shall be made as pillars in the temple of your God, and shall go no more out: he shall love you like a God, and kindle the flames of your love to so intense a degree, as is only known to angels and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

There is no more time for you to be vexed with the society of sinful creatures: your spirits within you shall be no more ruffled and disquieted with the teasing conversation of the wicked, nor shall you be interrupted in your holy and heavenly exercises by any of the enemies of God and his grace.

The time of your painful labours and sufferings is no more; Rev. xiv. 13; Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, for they rest from all their labours, that carry toil or fatigue with them: there shall be no more complaints nor groans, no sorrow or crying: the springs of grief are for ever dried up, neither shall there be any more pain in the flesh or the spirit. God shall wipe away all tears from your eyes, and death shall be no more; Rev. xxi. 4.

It is finished, said our blessed Lord on the cross. It is finished, may every one of his followers say at the hour of death and at the end of time my sins and follies, my distresses and my sufferings are finished for ever, and the mighty angel swears to it, that the time of these evils is no longer: they are vanished and shall never return. O happy souls, who have been so wise to count the short and

uncertain number of your days on earth, as to make an early provision for a removal to heaven. Blessed are you above all the powers of present thought and language. Days and months and years, and all these short and painful periods of time, shall be swallowed up in a long and blissful eternity; the stream of time, which has run between the banks of this mortal life, and bore you along amidst many dangerous rocks of temptation, fear and sorrow, shall launch you out into the ocean of pleasures which have no period: those felicities must be everlasting; for duration has no limit there, time and all its measures shall be no more. Amen.

IT is an awful providence which hath lately removed from among us a young person, well known to most of you, whose agreeable temper and conduct had gained the esteem of all her acquaintance, whose constitution, of body, together with the furniture of her mind and circumstances in the world, concurred to promise many future years of life and usefulness. But all that is born of the race of man is frail and mortal, and all that is done by the hand of God is wise and holy. We mourn and we submit in silence. Yet the

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