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Rh Reject not this solemn warning. If hitherto have been careless and worldly minded, now  to the blood of Christ which cleanseth from all  Search the scriptures. They contain the words eternal life; audand [sic] this life can only be enjoyed  faith in the Son of God.

You have perhaps often resolved not to give to your passions. You have reflected on the satisfactory nature of earthly enjoyments, and to be their slave no longer but you  broken these resolutions, and are still hurried forward in pursuit of that which experience  you to be unsatisfactory and vain. Hearken now to Jesus. He invites you to true happiness. promises you indeed neither riches nor honour in this world. He requires you to take up your cross and follow him; patiently to endure, as he did, the sorrows of this life, under the animating assurance of a glorious resurrection to eternal life.

Reader, reject not the counsel of God against yourself. To Jesus every knee shall bow. If now you submit to him, he will guide and support you while here, and afterwards receive you to glory. But, if you neglect his great salvation, if you now refuse to hearken to his voice, the time is approaching when it will arouse you from your grave, to receive from his lips that irreversible sentence which awaits all who lend a deaf ear to the proclamation of mercy.

With this solemn warning, I now take leave of you, appealing for the truth of the contents of this paper to the unerring word of God, to which you at all times have access, and which shall judge you at the last day.