to keep The men.

They be afra

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no help him hath too low thoughts of

ption abufes Chrift, defpair refuses

=fatisfied God to the uttermoft,and therefave finners to the uttermoft.

Flood of Chrift, which fatisfied the juf

If Ce Gel, may fatisfy the confcience of an a

tough of

If in coth not tafte bitter, Chrift cannot tafte facet.

When fin is hell, Chrift is heaven.

There is no paffage from fin to holinefs till we are palled from fin to Chrift.

may

us,

Chrift may have an intereft in us, though we not be able to fee our intereft in him. Ĉhrift hath entreated God to be reconciled to and now he entreats us to be reconciled to

God.

God will give us nothing for our fakes; but be will deny us nothing for Chrift's fake. None are fo low as Chrift was, none fo lowDone fo loving.

me ly,

We may know what Chrift hath done for us, by what he hath done in us.

Creatures die that our bodies may live, Chrift of died that our fouls may live.

Our judge, inftead of condemning us, ftept from the bench and died for us.

Chrift is to be a believer's judge, and if he to chufe his judge he could not chufe a bet

ær friend.

As God glorifies Chrift in heaven, fo the fpi

ceffion prevalent, and his coming again will be magnificent. All the angels in heaven adore him ; all the devils in hell fear him; and all the fons and daughters of Adam muft ftand before him.

Own Chrift's perfon, love his name, embrace his doctrine, obey his commands, and submit to his crofs. His perfon is lovely, his name is fweet, his doctrines are comfortable, his commands are rational, and his crofs honorable.The very angels admire him, and shall not we ?A depraved understanding will not yield that the creature is fo bad, and that Chrift is fo good!—

O! did we but know ourselves, and our faviour! we are poor, but he is rich; we are dead but he is life; we are fin but he is righteoufnefs; we are guiltinefs, but he is grace; we are mife ry, but he is mercy; we are loft, but he is falvation ;-if we are willing, he never was otherwife. He ever lives, ever loves, ever pities, ever pleads. He loves to the end, and faves to the uttermoft, all that come unto him..

A PATHETICAL INVITATION ΤΟ SINNERS ΤΟ COME TO CHRIST. *

Have you fins, or have you none ?—If you have, whither fhould you go, but to the Lamb of God, which taketh away the fins of the world? Have you fouls, or have you none ?-If you have, whither fhould you go but to the faviour of fouls? Is there a life to come, or is there not? If there is, whither fhould you go but to him, who only hath the words of eternal life? Is there a wrath to come, or is there not ?If there is, whither fhould you go but to him, who only

your fin and forrows, tears and fears, fled and gone, gone for ever; and you meet with an unfpeakable reward.

OF SINNERS.

Are not they miferable, who, if they had their wifh, could not be happy?

They that will not hear Chrift fay come to me, in a day of grace, fhall hear him fay depart from me, in a day of judgment.

If we are graceless here, we fhall be speechlefs hereafter.

Sinners are first driven, then drawn to God. The converfion of a finner is a greater wonder than the creation of the world.

If a finner's thoughts be not changed by grace, they will be changed hereafter by experience.

They that are leaft ferious, have the greatest reafon to be fo; their condition is awful, and therefore their difpofition ought to be fo.

Hatred is due to fin, compaffion to the finner. Sinners, if you will not hear God call to-day, you will harden your hearts to-day: and, if you' harden them to-day, God may harden them tomorrow. If you will not fet about repentance to-day, God may juftly deny you his affiftance

to-morrow.

If you will not do that which God hath enabled you to do, how can you look that he should do that for you which, of yourselves, you cannot do ?

Do not think to begin to live, when thou art ready to die.

If you would not go to hell, you must know that you have deferved it.

Let not your hearts flatter you, nor the world comfort you, when God threatens you.

God tells you, if you repent, you fhall find mercy; and will you not believe him? Because thou haft been a finner, wilt thou make God a liar?

Sinners, you must be changed; if your hearts be not changed for the better, your condition will be changed for the worse.

The worst of the ways of God are better than the best of the ways of fin.

OF SIN.

He that pleads for fin, is an advocate for his

accufer.

God allows us any thing but fin.

If fin be in the fafhion, we must be out of it. Then a man fhews himself to be a Chriftian, when he chufes rather to suffer than fin.

Sin digs graves for bodies, and kindles hell for fouls.

That is a fufficient caufe for trouble, that is the cause of all the trouble in the world.

Should not we groan for that which makes the whole creation groan?

If the heart be under the power of fin, the confcience is under the guilt of fin. If thou art not purified, thou art not pardoned.

A man can never leave fin thoroughly, till he loathes it heartily.

We must be fick of fin, before we can be dead to fin.

There is no fin a man can be tempted to, but he will find greater comfort in refifting than in indulging.