UNCON VERTED READER. 535 thy Teacher, thy King, and he will pardon all that is past, and save thee. 3. Believe God's love, the pardon of sin, and the everlasting joys of heaven, that thou mayest feel that all the pleasure of the world and flesh are dung in comparison of the heavenly delight of faith, and hope, and holy love, and peace of conscience, and sincere obedience. 4. Sin no more wilfully, but forbear that which thou mayest forbear, Isa. lv. 7. 5. Away from temptations, occasions of sin, and evil company, and be a companion of the humble, heaven- ly, and sincere, Psal.. 63 -115. 6. Wait on God's Spirit in the diligent and constant use of his own means : read, hear, meditate, pray ; pray liard for that grace that must convert thee : wait thus, and; thou shalt not wait in vain, Psal. xxxvii. 34. and lxix. 6. "Pity, O Lord, and persuade these souls; let not Christ's blood, his doctrine, his example, his Spirit, be lost upon them, and they lost for ever. Let not hea- ven be as no heaven to them; while they dream and doat on the shadows of this world. And, 0 save this land from a greater destruction, than all our late plagues, and flames, and divisions, which our sins and thy threatening makes us fear. O Lord, in thee have we trusted, let us never be confounded." Having thus contributed my endeavours in this Pre- face, to the furtherance of the design ,of this excellent hook, I must tell thee, Reader, that I take it for an honour to commend so masculine a birth into the world : the midwife of Alexander or Aristotle need not to be ashamed of her office. Who the author of this treatise was, how he preached, how he lived, how he suffered, (and for what,) and how he died, his life, and letters, lately printed, fully tell you ; and I ear- nestly commend the reading of them to all, but espe- cially to ministers : not to tell them what men hake here been forbidden to preach Chist's gospel, and for what ; nor what men they are that so many years have
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