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i. Our  most  important  affair  is  that  of  our  eternal salvation; upon  it  depends  our  happiness  or  misery  for ever. This affair  will  come  to  an  end  in  eternity,  and will decide  whether  we  shall  be  saved  or  lost  forever; whether we  shall  have  acquired  an  eternity  of  delights, or an  eternity  of  torments;  whether  we  shall  live  forever happy, or  forever  miserable.

O God! what will  my  lot  be? Shall I  be  saved,  or shall  I  be  lost? I may  be  either. And if  I  may  be  lost, why do  I  not  embrace  such  a  life,  as  may  secure  for  me life  eternal? O Jesus! Thou didst  die  to  save  me;  yet have I  been  lost,  as  often  as  I  have  lost  Thee,  my  sovereign good: suffer  me  not  to  lose  Thee  any  more.