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4. And what would you have more? What! will not all this do? Will not mercy allure you? Will not love conſtrain you? Then give me leave to reprove you, and affright you (if it be poſſible) out of thoſe depths of Satan, into which you are fallen. However, I am reſolved, whether you will or not, and the Lord faſten it upon your ſouls.

1. In the bowels of love and mercy, let me beg thee to aſk thy ſoul this queſtion, How long will this life and the comforts of it laſt? Thy ſoul is immortal, and muſt never die, but it muſt have a being ſomewhere to all eternity.

This world's happineſs, is it everlaſting? No ſurely: thy money, thy corn, and thy land, will do thee no good in the great day: O! What haft thou done for hereafter? What haft thou laid up for the world to come? Is the door of thy heart open to Chriſt? Alas! is thy poor ſoul unarmed all this while?

Queſt. 2. What will become of thee, when this life and all the comforts thereof are gone? Oh, hard-hearted ſinner! this broad way which thou walkeſt in, will never lead thee to the promis'd land, thy gold and ſilver key will never open heaven's gate for thee: thy care of this world's good, will not plead for thee before the Judge; all thy careful friends and acquaintances, with whom thou haſt ſpent many joyful hours, their good words will ſtand thee in no ſtead.

Then thou wilt be ready to cry, O where is the Chriſt that I have deſpiſed! where is the Jeſus which I have reſiſted! Will he plead for me? No ſurely; but to go to the gods whom thou haſt choſen; O what will become of me? Muſt I not die? O whither will death carry me! into which of the regions of the world will death land me, either of light or darkneſs? To which of the two regions am I now travelling; Certainly the day of pleaſure or worldly