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next, and what party? Thousands go to church, or to meeting, and sacrament, and don't come to Christ come and like this preaching, and numbers who are called fools for following us, eat the fragments that are left, that hear preaching, eat the fish and the loaves, and are only feasting upon shadows and not upon Christ: this would make us extremely careful to examine whether we ever came to Christ or no. A great moral preacher says of our preaching, when all their stock is out, then they cry come, come, come, and that is the burden of their song, say they; and I hope that will be the burden of our song till Christ says, Come ye blessed of my father; what would have us say you ? O, say you, bid a man do and live, so we will; and in the same sense Christ in the gospel says, thou art dead ; what shall I do, says the man, to inherit eternal life? thou knowest our Lord said to him, Keep the law. Our Lord always spoke to the people in their own language; that is, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart; he began with morality at the right place, we begin at the fifth commandment. The great morality, says Dr. Young, is beginning with the love of God. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: thou hast answered right, says he, do this, and thou shalt live. Whoever loves the Lord God as he ought to do, with all his soul and strength, shall certainly live; but our Lord takes pains to convince him of his ignorance and folly; says he, who is my neighbour? as to the love of God, he had no thought of that. Thus we deceive our own souls, till Jesus Christ opens our eyes. What must we come to Christ for? to be acquitted; come to his blood to be pardoned; you must believe on him,

not only with a bare speculative belief, that the devil, has, and all the damned in hell, but to have his blood applied and brought home to the soul; we must come to him as the author and finisher of our faith. Did not you just now say, I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and giver of life; and the form of baptism is in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; it means baptize them into the nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and I remember about three or four and thirty years ago, a friend mentioned that word in private conversation to me, we translate it, we believe in God; said he, we should translate it, we believe it in God, for we never do till God has put his faith in us, then we have in our souls a new life in Christ, then we live a life of faith ; the life I now live is by faith in the Son of God. I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. In order to this I must come to Jesus Christ, and be. lieve on him for life eternal, the earnest of which eternal life I must have in my heart before I can be assured I do believe on him. O, my dear hearers, do we think of this, this is no new doctrine; I set out, blessed be God, with this doctrine. The second sermon I ever made, the second sermon I ever preached, was on these words, He that is in Christ is a new creature: I was then about twenty years and a half old. The next sermon I preached was upon, Ye are justified; the next sermon, Ye are glorified; which shows, that though I am near fifty-five years old, yet, I thank my God, I am so far from changing my principles, which I am sure I was taught by God's word and Spirit, that I am more and more confirmed, that if I was to die this moment, I hope I should have strength and courage given me to say, I am more

convinced of the efficacy and the power of those truths which I preached when I was twenty years old, when I first preached them.

Now, my dear hearers, what could enter into the heart of any person in the world, to reject such a salvation as this? can you think that when a king saith to a prisoner, let him go, he would refuse it? there are some persons that refuse Christ. I remember when, by the bounty of the people here, we begged for the poor, one man went to the turnpike and said, this is Dr. Whitefield's bread and be damned. Human nature, what is it without Christ, the bread of life! We will not come to him that we may have life, though we may have. it for asking; no, not for life eternal, as a free gift we will not come to Christ and accept it at his hand; we will not it is not said, we shall not, but we will not. Pray why will not people come to Christ to have life? because they do not think that they are dead, and do not want it; remember when you say, you are rich and increased in goods, that you know not, saith Christ, that ye are poor and miserable, and blind and naked. We do not see ourselves fallen creatures, we do not know that: God give thee to know and feel, that there is no name given under heaven whereby we can be saved, but Jesus Christ. What, saith one, must I have inward feeling? what would the polite world do without feeling? do you think they would go to the play-house and places of public diversion without feeling? if I can feel other things that do not concern religion, how can I come to God till I feel a need of him. We don't chuse to come to Christ, because we don't chuse to have him as a free gift; we don't like to come to him as poor and needy. I remember I heard

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án excellent minister of Christ in Scotland, one Mr. Wallis, of Dundee, preaching upon these words, Behold I stand at the door and knock, says he. Christ comes knocking at the door to come into your houses, but you will not come down to accept of his mercy. When the prodigal said, I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son, make me as one of thy hired servants: now you think that it was very humble in him, he who was a son of the head of the house, to be willing to be a servant. 'Tis true he says, I will go to my father's house, but at the same time he says, I will work for my living, he shall not maintain me for nothing; but when he comes to his father, he is quite brought down, he says, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight; the joyful father clasps him in his withered arms, and takes the poor ragged wanderer home. The lawyers and other Jews thought they were righteous, and therefore they would not come to Jesus Ghrist. Our Lord spoke of the Pharisees, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and would not come to him that they might have life ; and if we trust in ourselves, neither shall we. Our Lord says, I receive not honor from men. How can you come to him, that receive honor one of another? Honor to whom honor is due. To such as are in power, whether in church or state, respect is due to their outward situation. I am for no levelling principles at all; but, my brethren, at the same time there is a fault, that we love to be applauded. There is no going to heaven, saith Mr. Gurnal, without wearing a fool's cap and a fool's coat, and there is no going to heaven without being accounted fools: you see many profes

sors follow the world, they have not courage enough to live in holy non-conformity to the world; and many people are frightened from Christ, because they would not be counted Methodists ; the fear of men has damned thousands. You will not come to him, because you cannot trust God, and then we love the world more than Christ. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. If I had the management of people, their shops would be open three or four hours before they are now; I do not want to hinder men's business; those that have most money and most power, if they acted as they ought to do, would be the greatest slaves to their fellow-creatures. When I talk of loving the world, I mean an inordinate love: I may live in the world and not live upon it; my heart may be towards God: the love of the world is to be renounced, and therefore they will not come to Jesus Christ they think, till they are going out of the world. If you are one of those who hate Christ, why you are the man that will not come to him: why, say you, does any body hate Christ? pray hold your tongue, for fear of discovering your ignorance: O, say you, God forbid I should hate him. But, my soul learn from this time forward, that every one of us by nature hates Jesus Christ: we sent this message to him; we will not have this man to reign over us, we hate him because he is despised, we hate him because of the appearance of the people that are his followers, we hate him because of the narrowness of the way we are to pass into him, because we must part with our lusts; we hate him because we must be non-conformists: I hate that rag of the whore of Babylon, O that form of prayer, O all that stuff, I thank God I was born a Dissenter, I love to be a Puritan, I

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