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WORD of Advice to my own heart and thine. Thou art a professor, and partakest of all ordinances, thou dost well, they are glorious privileges. But if thou hast not the blood of Christ at the root of thy profession, it will wither and prove but painted pageantry to go to hell in.

If thou retain guilt, self-righteousness under it, those vipers will eat out all the vitals of it at length. Try and examine with the greatest strictness every day, what bottom thy profession and hope of thy glory is built upon, whether it was laid by the hand of Christ; if not, it will never be able to endure the storm that must come against it, Satan will throw it all down, and great will be the fall thereof, Matth. vii. 27.

Glorious professor, thou shalt be winnowed; every vein of thy profession will be tried to purpose. It is terrible to have it all come tumbling down, and to find nothing but it to bottom upon.