MAKING LIGHT ON CHRIST. 611 ing the world with your most eager desires, forgetting the world to come, and the change that is a little before you, conscience might cry out to you, ' Is Christ and salvation no more worth than so î' That when you are next spending the Lord's day in idleness or vain sports, conscience might tell you what you are doing. In a word, that in all your neglects of duty, your sticking at the sup- posed labor or cost of a godly life ; yea, in all your cold . and lazy prayers and performances, conscience might tell you how unsuit- able such endeavors are to the reward ; and that Christ and salva- tion should not be so slighted. I will say no more but this at this time, It is a thousand pities that when God bath provided a Sa- vior for the world, and when Christ hath suffered so much for their sins, and made so full a satisfaction to justice, and purchased so glorious a kingdom for his saints, and all this is offered so freely to sinners, to lost, unworthy sinners, even for nothing, that yet so many millions should everlastingly perish because they made light of their Savior and salvation, and prefer the vain world and their lusts before them. I have delivered my message; the Lord open your hearts to receive it: I have persuaded you with the word of truth and soberness; the Lord persuade you more effectually, or else all this is lost.
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