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 That blood is poured out, to cleanſe you from guilt. Thoſe wounds are ſuſtained, to heal your confidences. That anguiſh is endured, to obtain reſt for your ſouls.In that mangled body dwells all the fulneſs of the Godhead, Col. ii. 9. Great, beyond imagination great, is the merit of thoſe ſufferings. Why then, O! why will you die? Why will you periſh for ever; who have an all-ſufficient propitiation in the croſs of Chriſt? Fly to this ſanctuary. Fly, before it be too late. Fly without a moment’s delay. ’Tis an inviolable ſanctuary. None ever periſhed, that fled by faith to the compaſſionate, the divinely compaſſionate Redeemer.—His death ſhall be a full ſatisfaction for your iniquities. A ſenſe of his immenſely rich goodneſs ſhall win your affections; ſhall incline (what all the threatnings of damnation could never effect), ſhall incline you, to lothe your ſins, and to love his ſervice; ſhall ſmooth your path, and expedite your progreſs, to the regions of immortal honour and joy.

Having now, with great plainneſs of ſpeech, addreſſed my brethren in the miniſtry; having exhorted believers: cautioned the ſelf-righteous; and warned the wicked: let me commend the whole to your ſerious recollection, and to God’s gracious benediction.And, “O Lord moſt holy! O God moſt mighty! O holy and merciful Saviour! by thine agony and bloody ſweat—by thy croſs and paſſion”—let not the word, now ſpoken, he in vain in the Lord! Amen, and Amen.