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Third Rule of Arithmetick; Num∣ber the work you have done, and how you have dont it; what will this do? you will tell me what it will do, if you observe it; you will find upon Exami∣nation, that put all your good works to∣gether, and allow for dammage, for the Hay and the Stubble, the Dregs and the Dross, and they amount but to very little; you will see how much mending all your work needs; what mourning over, and begging pardon for the de∣fects and failings about it; time runs, and work sticks, and that which we thought we had done well, must be done over again: how should this awa∣ken us, and quicken us; when we have done all we can, we are but unpro∣fitable servants! when we have done the best we can, we have not done that which is our duty, when we have done the most we can, we have not done all we should, still some work lies before us, and it may be very little time; will not this consideration to make men make much of time, and not prodigally throw it away as they have done? because so