+I. God affords opportunities for good.+ In this view we may regard the _whole period of life._ 1. You are blessed with a season of Gospel grace while many are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, upon you _hath the light shined_. 2. You have a season of civil and religious liberty. What advantage do we possess above many of our ancestors who suffered for conscience sake! They laboured, and we have entered into their labours. 3. Who has not experienced a day of trouble? 4. Where is the person who does not know what we mean by a season of conviction? +II. I would enforce upon you the necessity of diligence to improve your reaping season.+ 1. Consider how much you have to accomplish. The salvation of the soul is a great--an arduous concern. Religion is a race, and you must run; it is a warfare, and you must fight. The blessings of the Gospel are free, but they are to be sought, and gained. 2. Consider the worth of the blessings which demand your attention. . . . Is it not desirable to be redeemed from the curse of the law; to be justified freely from every charge brought against us at the bar of God; to be delivered from the tyranny and rage of vicious appetites and passions? Great is the happiness of the good here; but who can describe the exalted glory and joy that await them hereafter? 3. Remember that your labour will not be in vain in the Lord. The husbandman has many uncertainties to contend with, but _probability_ stimulates _him_; how much more should actual _certainty_ encourage _you_. 4. Remember that your season for action is limited and short. Harvest does not last long. Your time is _uncertain_ as well as short. 5. Reflect upon the consequences of negligence. Is a man blamed for sleeping in harvest? Does every one reproach him as a fool? You act a part more absurd and fatal, who _neglect this great salvation._ Having made no provision for eternity, your ruin is unavoidable. It will also be insupportable.--_Jay._ _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.--Verses_ 6, 7, _and_ 11. THE WAY TO PRESENT BLESSEDNESS AND FUTURE FAME.