How to improve our Time

First is to be contented with our Lot,
Not to repine for that we yet want not.
When health with food and raiment will suffice,
We may abounding Plenty then despise,
For the short time that we on Earth remain.
But they who would celestial Joys obtain,
May think Time slow, whose sure tho' lazie pace,
Keeps them too long from seeing of God's face,
Whose righteous Souls, by Meditation, fly
Faster than Time can pass their Destiny;
And so a quicker prepossession take
Of Heaven, than lingring long-liv'd Time doth make.
When Meditations are divinely set,
God and our Souls are in conjunction met.
Thus me may out-ride Time, our Joys improve
By greater speed, when we converse above,
In frequent Raptures of Seraphick Bliss,
While our diviner Thoughts do practise this.