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198 familiarity with them, we take for granted. Seeing then, that in the "latter end" of man, his happiness or misery will be unalterably fixed forever, a due consideration of it, would unquestionably lead him to prepare to avoid the one and enjoy the other. And here the great question arises, how can sinful man be thus prepared? How can he who has transgressed the laws of his Maker, and rendered himself obnoxious to his sore displeasure, become reconciled to him, restored to his favor and image here, and be advanced to honor, dignity, glory, and endless happiness hereafter? There is a way, and but one way; viz., "the new and living way opened up for us by the blood of Jesus." Reason debased, for centuries tried, but in vain, to find, the sure, the narrow way, that leads to glory and immortality. But it pleased God in infinite benevolence, to devise the plan by which "He can be just and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, with a heart unto righteousness."