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A
HOPEFUL YOUTH
[SEAM.
VIII,
plants
shall
one
day
be
fruitful
trees
in thy
vineyard
;
they
shall
be
pillars
in thy
holy
temple." But
alas
!
there
is
a
death
upon
our
hopes,
there
is
a
darkness
and a
Iethargy upon
your
souls
:
We look upon you in
all these
your
endowments,
we
mourn over
you with compassion,
and
with zeal
we
express
our grief and our
love
:
"
Awake, ye
young
sinners,
who
have deserved our
love; awake, that
ye
sleep
not
to
everlasting death."
5.
To
those
that
are rich
in this world,
and are fur-
nished
with the
former
good
qualities
too.
I
am
well
assured,
while
I
address
myself to this assembly,
I
speak
to many persons
of
this
character*.
Ye
are
wealthy and
condescending, like the young
man
in my
text;
ye
are
often uncovered,
and
ye
pay reverence
to
the
ministers
of
the
gospel, as
he
did;
ye give
us
honours and
civili-
ties beyond
our
merit or
wish
;
ye come
and ask
of
us
the
same
question,
What
shall
we
do to
inherit
eternal
life?
And
we
tell you from
the
word
of
God, Love
not
the
world,
nor the
things
of
the
world;
for
where
the love
of
the world
is,
the
love
of
the
Father
is
not.
If
riches
increase,
set
not
your heart
upon
them.
Mortify your
affections
that
are upon
the
earth, and deny
yourselves,
take
up
your
cross,
and
follow
Christ:
Become
his
dis-
ciples,
without
reserve, in faith,
and
love,
and
univer-
sal holiness. While
we
propose these paths
to
eternal
happiness,
shall
,
it
be
said
concerning
you,
they went
away sorrowful,
having great
possessions
?
Your
condescending and
affable
deportment,
looks
brighter by
all the
rich lustre
of
your
habits; and
the
bigger
your
circtunstance` are,
the more lovely
is
your
humble
attention
to
the ministers
of
Christ,
and
your
readiness
to
hear our
words
is
the
more .commendable
But
will
ye
be
hearers
only,
and never practise
?
The
time
is
coming,
and
the
hour
makes haste
upon
you, when
ye
shall
stand upon the borders
of
the
grave,
and
look
into
that
world .of
spirits, where all the honours and
dis-
tinctions
of
this world
are
known no more.
Ye
shall
be
stripped
of
those vanities which
ye loved
above
God
and
heaven.
Think
how mean
and
despicable
a figure
your
souls
will
make amongst
fallen angels,
,
if
the
love
of
this
world,
and
neglect
of God
should bring you
into that
*This
discourse
was
delivered at Tunbridge
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