SERMON IX.
admonition to redeem teh time.
"Redeeming the time because the days are evil."
Eph. v. 16.
The benevolent Author of our existence, has allotted us a portion of time, in order that we may attend to the various duties that devolve upon us in our several stations in life, and to prepare by sober, righteous and godly living, for the solemn concerns of death and eternity. And when we are brought seriously to reflect upon the very short space that is granted to us individually, and the great and important work that must be done to secure our everlasting happiness, and escape the wrath to come, together with the many difficulties and dangers to which we are
