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 Give me children, or elſe I die, ſaid Rachel or give me Chriſt or elſe periſh for ever. Can you be ſaved without Chriſt? And if you may have Chriſt bat for the opening the door; then while it is called to day, then hear and open to him. If the door of grace ſhould be that thou wouldeſt ſhut up with vengeance for ever.

2. Conſider what anſwer we thou wilt be able to make at the great day, if thou wilt harden thy heart, and not open, why, what wilt thou, what can't thou plead for thyſelf at the day of judgment Wilt thou ſay, the goſpel never offered thee Chriſt? Why, thou had heard this day if say man will hear and open, I will come in and ſup with him. Will thoſe ſay, I would have opened my heart had it not been for love of in[inillegible], or for eaſe, or liberty, or honour, friends or companions? Oh! how will men and angels hiſs at thee? This in the perſon, who for luſt's ſake forlook his mercies: who for a little Vanity neglected his own ſalvation O! how wilt thou curſe thy ſelf, that for nothing you for that which is worſe than nothing thou haſt put off Chriſt and his ſalvation! Therefore, men brethren, and fathers, hearken unto me, as Moſes ſaid to the Iſraelites; ſo this day I propone un to you bleſſing and curſing life and death ſalva ion if you open to Chriſt and damnation if you refuſe Chriſt

For the Lord's ſake chuſe not curſing, but bleſſing: chuſe not death, but life, chuſe not hell, but heaven; chuſe not ſin but Chriſt Though you have formerly ſlighted him; if you Will now regard him though you have formerly contemned him, yet if you praiſe him, though you have formerly reſiſted, if yet you will yeild, if yet you will conſent, if yet you will be come willing to open unto Chriſt, Chriſt will be our mercy will be yours ſalvation will be your