19~ NOW OR NEVER. all things, and arguments fetched from chaff should conquer those that were fetched from heaver~! 0 what heart-rending thoughts will these be, when eternity shall afford them leisure for an impartial review! Come away speedily from the snares of sinners, and the company of deceived hardened men, and cast away the works of darkness. Heaven is before you! Death is at hand! The eternal God hath sent to call you! Mercy cloth yet stretch forth its arms! You have stayed too long, and abused patience too much already: stay no longer! 0 now please God, and comfort us, and save yourselves, by resolving that " this shall be the day:" and faithfully performing this your resolution, " up and be doing:" believe, repent, desire, obey, and do all this with all your might; love him that you must love for ever, and love him with all yom soul and might; seek that which is truly worth seeking, and will pay for all your cost and pa,ins, and seek it first with all your might, remembering still it must be now or never. And now I should conclude, I am loath to end, for fear lest I have not yet prevailed with you. What are you now resolved to do, from this day forward? It is work that we have been speaking of, and necessary work of endless consequence, which must be done, and quickly done, and thoroughly done. Are you not convinced that it is so? that ploughing and sowing are not more necessary to your harvest, than the work of holiness in this day of grace is necessary to your salvation? You are blind, if you see not this: you are dead, if you feel it not: what then will you do? 0 hear the God of heaven, if you will not hear us, who calleth to you, Return, and live! 0 hear him that shed his blood for souls, and tendereth you now salvation by his blood! 0 hear without any more delay, before all is gone, and you are gone, and he that now deceiveth you, torment you! Yet hold on a little longer in a carnal, earthly, unsanctified state, and it is too
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