We  have  warnings  of  every  kind.  Even  youth
itself  is  continually  warned  that  there  is  no  reli-
ance to  be  placed,  either  on  strength,  or  constitu-
tion, or  early  age ;  that  if  they  count  upon  life  as
a  thing  to  be  reckoned  secure  for  a  considerable
number  of  years,  they  calculate  most  falsely ;  and
if  they  act  upon  this  calculation,  by  allowing
tiicmsclves  in  the  vices  which  are  incidental  to
their  years,  under  a  notion  that  it  will  be  long  be-
fore they  shall  have  to  answer  for  them,  and  be-
tbre  that  time  come  they  shall  have  abundant  sea-
son for  repenting  and  amending ;  if  they  sufiljr
such  arguments  to  enter  into  theirininds,_and  act
upon  them,  then  arc  they  guilty  of  neglecting  God
in  his  warnings..  They  not  only  err  in  point  of
just  reasoning,  but  they  neglect  the  warnings
which  God  has  expressly  set  before  them.  Or  if
they  take  upon  themselves  to  consider  religion  as
a  thing  not  made  or  calculated  for  them;  as  much
too  serious  for  their  years ;  as  made  and  intended
for  the  old  and  the  dying ;  at  least  as  what  is  un-


SERMONS  ON  SEVERAL  SUBJECTS.
