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the whole time of your dwelling here in fear; even all the day long, saith Solomon, Prov. xxiii. 17. You must endeavour to have a conscience void of offence always, Acts xxiv. 16. You must live the rest of your life, 1 Peter iv. 2, not to the lusts of men, but to the will of God; taking heed lest at any time there be in you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, Heb. iii. 12.

1. For this end Christ did redeem you from the hands of your enemies, that you might serve him in holiness and righteousness (which is the same with walking with God) all the days of your life without fear, Luke i. 74, 75.

2. The end of the instructions of God's word, which is the light of your feet in this walking, is, that it be bound upon your heart continually, to lead, keep, and converse with you at all times, Prov. vi. 21, 22.

3. The lusts of your own heart, and your adversary the devil lie always upon the advantage to hinder you in, or divert you from, this godly course, 1 Peter v. 8, so that, upon every intermission of your holy care to please God, they take their opportunity to surprise you.

4. You are accountable unto God for losing and mis-spending all that precious time wherein you do not walk in his ways, Eph. v. 16.

5. Besides, he that hath much work to do, or that is in a long journey, or is running a race for a wager, hath no need to lose any time. If you be long obstructed in your Christian work and race, by sin and sloth, you will hardly recover your loss but with much sorrow, with renewed faith, and with more than ordinary repentance.

Wherefore when you awake in the night, or in the morning, and while you are employed in the day, and when you betake yourself to sleep at night, you must, as David, have thoughts on God, and set him always before you, Psa. xvi. 8. Acts ii. 25. When I awake, I am still with thee, saith he, Psa. cxxxix. 18; and in the night he remembered God, Psa. lxiii. 6; and his hope and meditation was on God's word, Psa. cxix. 147, 148.