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 damnation, but to assist the enemies of and man, who are purposed to overthrow that Church.

If times of confusion and trouble shall come, where can we seek for comfort but in the love of, in the love of to man for  sake? But how can we then take comfort in that love, if now we take no account of it? Let me entreat you, then, Christian Brethren, while the days of peace are vouchsafed to you, to give more and more heed to all religious duties. The days may come, when your Churches will be shut up, or only filled by men who will not teach the whole truth as it is in ; when you will be deprived of Ministers of Religion; or have only such as are destitute of Commission. Do not, I beseech you, by your neglect now, add to your misery then the bitterness of self-reproach, when you will have to say, "I had once the opportunity of worshipping aright, but I neglected it, and He now has withheld it from me. I had once the means of receiving the Body and Blood of my, at the hands of His own Minister; but I refused it, and now He has placed it out of my power."