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<p>Here is, 1. A good caution against presuming upon time to come: <i>Boast not thyself</i>, no, not <i>of to-morrow</i>, much less of many days or years to come. This does not forbid preparing for to-morrow, but presuming upon to-morrow. We must not promise ourselves the continuance of our lives and comforts till to-morrow, but speak of it with submission to the will of God and as those who with good reason are kept at uncertainty about it. We must not <i>take thought for the morrow</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="Matt.6.34" href="/passage/?search=Matt.6.34">Matt. 6:34</a>), but we must cast our care concerning it upon God. See <a class="bibleref" title="Jas.4.13-Jas.4.15" href="/passage/?search=Jas.4.13-Jas.4.15">Jas. 4:13-15</a>. We must not put off the great work of conversion, that one thing needful, till to-morrow, as if we were sure of it, <i>but to-day, while it is called to-day</i>, hear God’s voice. 2. A good consideration, upon which this caution is grounded: <i>We know not what a day may bring forth</i>, what event may be in the teeming womb, of time; it is a secret till it is born, <a class="bibleref" title="Eccl.11.5" href="/passage/?search=Eccl.11.5">Eccl. 11:5</a>. A little time may produce considerable changes, and such as we little think of. We <i>know not what</i> the present <i>day may bring forth</i>; the evening must commend it. <i>Nescis quid serus vesper vehat—Thou knowest not what the close of evening may bring with it</i>. God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events, and reserved to himself the knowledge of them, as a flower of the crown, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event, <a class="bibleref" title="Acts.1.7" href="/passage/?search=Acts.1.7">Acts 1:7</a>.</p>
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