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HEAVEM.
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vlTt.
reading
the book
of God
in
your
own language, and'
from
the pious
education
many
of
you
have enjoyed
in
the
fa-
milies from whence you sprung.
Think
what awakening
hints
you
have received,
by
the inward conviction of
your
own
consciences,
and
by
the christian friends you
may have
conversed
with
:
Have you
not
been told
plainly enough
by
the
voice
of
conscience,
that
you
are
now
utterly
unprepared
for heaven
?
Have
not
public
and
private admonitions
given you sufficient
warning
of
the
danger
of
your
present
state
?
And
after
all this
will
you proceed
in
your
sinful course,
till you
arrive
at
the
very gates
of
hell
and destruction,
till you have
prepared
yourselves,
and
made
your
souls
ripe
for
the vengeance
of
God, and are
plunged into
it
by
death without
remedy
or
relief.
5.
Consider
how
dreadful
will
your state
be,
if
death
meet
you in all
your guilt and
defilements, unwashed,
unpardoned, and
unsanctified,
without
any
garment
of
righteousness,
without
any robe
of
salvation.
What a
terrible
sentence
is
that
which
death
will
pronounce upon
every such
sinner
the
moment
that
he
strikes
his
heart
?
Hear
it
and tremble, O miserable
creature
!
Hear
the
formidable
and eternal
sentence,
"
Let
him
that
is
un-
holy
be
unholy still," Rev.
xxii.
11.
Let
him
that
is
un-
prepared
for heaven
go
down
to
the regions
of
death and
hell, for
which his
iniquities
have
best
prepared
him.
6.
Think
with yourselves,
if
you have any
thing
of
importance
to
do
in
this world,
or
have any momentous
scene
of
life to pass
through,
how
diligent are
you in
preparation
for it?
If
you
are but
to visit the
court of
a
prince, or
go
to make
your
addresses
to
any
great
man
of honour
and
power,
or
to
be
admitted into any
numerous
society
of
a
superior character,
how
diligently
do you
endeavour
to furnish yourselves
with such
know-
ledge
of
the common
ceremonies
of
life,
And
such
orna-
ments
about your
body,
as
may
render
you
acceptable
amongst
those
whom you
are
going
to
converse
with?
And
does
not
an
entrance
into
the
court
of
heaven,
into
the presence
of
a
God
of
holiness, and
into
the society
of
pure
and blessed spirits, require
some
solicitude
and
care
about
those
ornaments and qualifications
which
are
necessary
for
so
solemn
and
glorious
an
appearance?
If
you
are
designing in this life to commence any
trade
or