has been cold and unmeaning. In short, you are conscious, that hitherto, you have been strangers to genuine repentance, to a life of faith in the Son of God, to spiritual religion, and newness of life. Let me beg of you then to recollect, that though you may share in publick mercies and deliverances, in consequence of the prayers offered by others; you cannot escape the wrath of God, or obtain eternal salvation, unless you yourselves" seek the LORD while he may be found, "and call on him while he is near." And consider, without eternal salvation, how little all else will profit the possessor.

There may be also those, who through discouragement, or mistakes, or prejudices, (as we must suppose,) have been kept from joining us in prayer for deliverance from our perilous and calamitous situation. Should this have been your case, we hope, however, you will have no objection to join us in blessing the LORD for his unmerited, and perhaps unexpected, benefits. At least, let us be of one mind and one heart in this service, and in our endeavours to promote the purity, peace, and enlargement of the Redeemer's kingdom, in our favoured land, and to the ends of the earth.

And if we have prayed, and the LORD has heard, in our publick concerns; let us, my brethren, prize the privilege of coming to the throne of grace; and more love and value him, who has, by his own obedience unto the death upon the cross, opened to us the way of access and acceptance: let us abound more and more in prayer and supplication; let us "ask and re

"ceive that our joy may be full."-And now to him, that is able to "do exceeding abundantly above all "that we can ask or think, according to the power "which now worketh in us; to him be glory, in the church, by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world "without end. Amen."

OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

SIGNS AND DUTIES

OF

THE PRESENT TIMES.

With some account of a Society of Clergymen in London, whose object it has been to promote vital godliness at this alarming period.

DRAWN UP AND PUBLISHED BY THE DESIRE OF THE SOCIETY, 1799.

N.B. The substance of this Tract was first preached as a Sermon, on 1 Chron. xii. 32, and though afterwards drawn up in another form, it seems proper that it should be added to the preceding Sermons on the same subject.