2. _When we turn everything we have to do, in the common concerns of
life, into a religious channel._
3. _By living in a devotional spirit._--(1) This will cast out
everything trifling, much more everything sinful, from our leisure
hours. (2) Its preservation and exercise are perfectly compatible
with the affairs of life.
4. The principal way by which time is to be redeemed is not merely by
making efforts to promote our final blessedness, but _by actually
securing our present salvation._
+III. The motives by which the exhortation is enforced.+--"Because
the days are evil."
1. _The days are evil in a general sense._--This age, as well as the
age of the apostles, is a wicked one.