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Beg of Chrift to ftrike home upon your Hearts, that you may feel the Power of Religion Indeed you must feel the Power of God here, or the Wrath of God hereafter: Thefe are Truths of the utmoft Confequence; therefore, do not go contradicting, do not go blafpheming away: Bleffed be God, you are not fuch Cowards to run away for a little Rain: I hope good Things of you, I hope you have felt the Power of God, and if God fhould bring any of you to himself thro' this Foolishness of Preaching, you will have no Reafon to complain it was done by a Youth, by a Child: No, if I could be made an Inftrument to bring you to God, they may call me Novice, Enthufiaft, or what they please, I fhould rejoice; yea, and I would rejoice.

Oh! that fome Sinner might be brought to Jefus Chrift: Don't fay I preach Despair: I defpair of no one, when I confider God had Mercy on fuch a Wretch as I: I was running in a full Career to Hell, I was hafting thither, but Jefus Chrift paffed by and ftopp'd me: Jefus Chrift paffed by me while I was in my Blood, when I was polluted with Filth; he paffed by me, my Brethren, and bid me live. Thus I am a Monument of God's free Grace; and therefore, my Brethren, I defpair of none of you, when I confider, I fay, what a Wretch I am not fpeaking now out of a falfe' Humility, a pretended Sanctity, as the Pharifees call it: No, the Truth in Chrift I fpeak, and therefore Men and Devils do your worst,

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I have a gracious Master will protect me; it is his Work I am engaged in, and Jefus Chrift will carry me above their Rage.

Those who are come here this Night out of Curiofity to hear what the Babbler fays, thofe who come to spend an idle Hour to find fomething for an Evening-Converfation at a CoffeeHouse, or if you have stopp'd in your Coaches as you paffed by, remember you have had Jefus Chrift offered you; I offer Jefus Chrift to every one of you; perhaps you may not regard it because it is in a Field. Jefus Christ is wherever his People meet in Sincerity and Truth to worship him: He is not confin'd to Church. Walls: He has met us here; many, very many of you know he has; and therefore you may believe on him with greater Confidence.

Can you bear to think of a bleeding, panting, dying Jefus, offering up for Sinners, and you will not accept of him? Don't fay you are poor, and therefore are afham'd to go to Church, for God hath fent the Gospel out unto you. Do not harden your Hearts, oppofe not the Will of Jefus.

Oh! that I could speak to your Hearts, that my Words would centre there. My Heart is full of Love to you. I could fpeak till I could fpeak no more, fo I could but bring you to Chrift. I may never meet you all, perhaps, any more. The Cloud of God's Providence feems to be moving. God calls me by his Providence away from you for a while. God knows whether we fhall ever fee each other in

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the Flesh. At the Day of Judgment we shall all meet again. I earnestly defire your Prayers. Pray that I may not begin Jebu-like, in the Spirit, but that I may continue in it. Pray that I may not fall away, that I may not decline fuffering for you, if I fhould be called to it. Be earneft, Oh! be earneft with God in my Behalf, that while I am preaching to others may not be caft away. Put up your Prayers for me I beseech you. Go not to the Throne of Grace without carrying me upon your Heart, for you know not what Influence your Prayers may have. As for you, my dear Brethren, God knows my Heart, I continually bear you on my Mind when I go in and out before the Lord, and it is my earnest Defire you may not perish for lack of Knowledge, but that he'd fend out more Ministers to water what his own Righthand hath planted. May the Ancient of Days come forth upon his white Horfe, and that all Oppofition may fall to the Ground. As we have begun to bruise the Serpent's Head, we must expect he will bruife our Heel. The Devil will not let his Kingdom fall without raging horribly: He will not fuffer the Minifters of Christ to go on without bringing his Power to ftop them. But fear not, my dear Brethren, David, tho' a Stripling, encounter'd the great Goliah; and if we pray, God will give us Strength against all our spiritual Enemies. Shew your Faith by your Works. Give the World the Lye. Prefs forward. Don't ftop, don't linger in your Journey, but ftrive for the Mark

fet before you. Fight the good Fight of Faith, and God will give you fpiritual Mercies. I hope we fhall all meet at the Right-hand of God. Strive, ftrive to enter at the ftrait Gate, that we may be borne to Abraham's Bofom, where Sin and Sorrow fhall ceafe: No Scoffer will be there, but we shall fee Jefus, who died for us, and not only fee him, but live with him for ever.

Which God, of his infinite Mercy, &c,

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