deemer, as generous youths remember the liberal benefactor who has clothed them, and fed them, and enriched them. Remember your Creator and Redeemer, as condemned malefactors gratefully remember the pardoning monarch who has released them from the terrors of death. My dear young friends, do you aspire after honour and applause, or after wealth and treasures ? “ “ Come with us, and we will

, do you good;" we will give you durable riches and righteousness ; treasures which wax not old, and a crown of glory which fadeth not away.

For we are warranted by a faithful and unchangeable God, to testify to you, that if you are Christ's, all is yours, life and death, things present and things to come.

Are you pursuing after the poor, transitory pleasures which flow from the intoxicating cup of dissipation, from the enslaving embraces of unhallowed gratification, from chambering and wantonness, from rioting and drunkenness? Behold, we shew you a more excellent way, more substantial joy, and more enduring happiness. We call to communion with God; to the marriage

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supper of the Lamb; to union with the Father of your spirits; and to the assured hopes of an inheritance eternal in the hea

With such union and hopes, how contemptible will all the pleasures of sin, which are but for a moment, appear! How readily will you own, that the time past is more than sufficient to have wrought the will of the flesh! and how fervently will you plead, that the very God of peace would sanctify you wholly, and would preserve you blameless to the coming of the Lord !

Aged men and aged women! come with us, and we will do you good. Long before this time you have learned, and often have you confessed, that all below is vanity of vanities; yet, alas! still have you sought your happiness in the increase of fortune or of fame. Now turn aside, and view this glorious sight exhibited by the gospel; an omnipotent God beseeching you to be reconciled to him; a merciful Redeemer inviting the weary and burdened to seek their rest in him, and tenderly assuring them, that he never rejects the supplications of the destitute; the Spirit of grace engaging to

take away the hard and stony heart, to make a willing people in the day of divine power, to bring you near to God as your exceeding joy, and to save you even at the eleventh hour. Contemplate these things, ye aged and infirm! lay them seriously to heart, ere they be for ever hid from your eyes ; consider that now is the acceptable time, and the day of salvation; remember that yet a little while, perhaps a very

little while, and your day of mercy, your means of instruction, your season of grace, will be for ever ended. Awake, then, O sleeper ! arise from the dead; call upon your God, while he may be found; repent, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, and that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

Ye licentious lovers of carnal pleasure, who glory in your shame, and cannot cease from sin ! come with us, and we will do you good; we will impart to you joys which wax not old; which perish not in the use; which can solace

your souls in your departing moments ; which will not be embittered by reflection, and will prove sure pledges and foretastes.of inexpressible pleasures, never to have an end. Why do you regard .earthly joys? why are you so eager after worldly treasures ? why so conformed to the dissipated manners of a dissipated age? We set before you far nobler objects of pursuit; we call you to aspire after all that goodness through life, which God bestows as the immediate reward of his servants ; after all the dignity of finishing your course with joy ; after all the triumph of entering the celestial Zion with rejoicings, and all the unutterable transport of knowing, that in a short time the days of your mourning shall be for ever ended, and your ransomed spirit placed beyond the possibility of sorrow or temptation.

Ye lukewarm, cold-hearted, nominal, professing Christians! come with us, and we will do you good. Be it known unto you, that if you regard iniquity in your heart, our God will not hear you; if you

draw back, he will have no pleasure in you ; if other lords have dominion over you, your souls will be greatly troubled. But if you deny yourselves, take up your cross, and follow Jesus, you

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and will finish your course with joy; your peace will flow as a river, and your path will shine

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brighter and brighter unto the perfect day; if you are armed with the whole armour of God, you shall be conquerors, and more than conquerors, through the great Captain of salvation ; if you fight the good fight of faith, you will lay hold on eternal life, and will have an abundant entrance administered into the blessed mansions of your Father's house.

Come, then, with us, high and low, rich and poor, old and young! we will do you good. Jesus has far better riches to impart than a thousand worlds can bestow : He saves to the uttermost; he is proclaiming from his excellent glory, “ The Spirit and the Bride say, Come; let him that is a-thirst

, come ;

and whosoever will, let him come, and take of the waters of life freely."

Ye who have complied with the endearing invitations of redeeming love! come to the table of the Lord, with your hosan-. nahs of praise to him who was dead, and is alive, and lives for evermore. cred table, renew your cordial acceptance of his complete salvation; renew your engagements to be the Lord's; plead his never-failing promise of grace to help in

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