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 you, for he loves them that love him, and they that eek him early hall find him. If yon have a regard to your own eternal happines, it ought to be your chiefet care to erve and glorify God, it was for this end that God both made and redeemed you: do but confider how welcome a young peron is to God; it was to young Samuel, that God revealed himelf and uch time when the word of God was precious and very rare: and you know that St. John the younget of all the diciples was the only peron of all the twelve, who was uffered to lean on our Saviours boom. Pray think, if you can, bow inconceivable a joy it would be to you, when in your elder years can think of your well pent time, and the innocence of your youth; how great a conolation will it be to you on your death-bed, how eay it will render your accounts at the great day of judgment? and how much a whole life pent in God’s ervice, will increae your glory in heaven? I can but counel and warn you! I cannot compel you to be happy, if I could I would: