l60 A CALL TO stantly attend on the public preaching-of the word. As God will light the world by the sun, and not by himself without it, so will he convert and save men by his ministers, who are the lights of the world. Acts xxvi. 17, 18. Matt. v. 14. When he had miraculously humbled Paul, he sent him to Ananias, Acts ix. 10; and when he had sent an angel to Cornelius, it was but to bid him send for Peter, who must tell him what to believe and do. DIRECTION IV.-Betake yourselves to God in a course of earnest constant prayer. Confess and lament your former lives, and beg his grace to illuminate and convert you. Beseech him to pardon what is past, and to give you his Spirit, and change your hearts and lives, and lead you in his ways, and save you fi·om temptation. Pursue this work daily, and be not wearv of it. ' V DIRECTION V.-Presently give over your known and wilful sins. Make a stand, and go that way no farther. Be drunk no more, but avoid the very occasion of it. Cast away your lusts and sinful pleasures with detestation. . Curse, and swear, and rail no more; and if you have wronged any, restore, as Zaccheus did: if you will commit again your old sins, what blessing can you expect on the means for conversion? DIRECTION VI.-Presently, if possible, change your company, if it hath hitherto been bad; not by forsaking your necessary relations, but your unnecessary sinful companions; and join yourselves with those that fear the Lord, and inquire of them the way to heaven. Acts ix. 19, ~6. Psalm xv. 4. DIRECTION VII.-Deliver up yourselves .to the Lord Jesus, as the physician of your souls, that he may pardon you by his blood, and sanctify you by his Spirit, by his word and ministers, the instru~
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