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IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
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the
same
sort
of
character' and circumstance
as
the gen-
tiles
were
in
that
age.
1.
Ye
that
are
in
the
ends
of
the earth,
that
are afar
off
from
the
church of
God,
his
knowledge and
his
wor-
ship.
Ye
that
'are
at
the
greatest
distance
from
the
true
Jerusalem. Ye
.
who
are the vilest
of
sinners,
utterly
unholy,
and without God
in
the
world;
Ye
that
have
nothing
of
grace
or
religion
in
you, look
unto Christ and
be
saved,
for
he came
to
save
the sinners
of
the gentiles,
and
the
vilest
of
mankind.
.
Ye that
have
not
known
the blessing
of
holy
pa-
rents, but
were bred like
heathens,
who know
not God,
and
born
in
families
that
call
not
on his 'name
:
Ye
that
never
were
trained
up in
religious education,
that
were
never brought near
to
God.
by
a
father
that
was
in his
co-
venant; or
a mother
that
believed
in his
gospel
:
Ye
that
were
never
solemnly
devoted
to
God,
nòr
acknowledge
any relation to
him, he
calls
you this
day
to
accept
his
salvation.
s
Or,
3.
Ye
that
have,
broke the
bonds
of a
pious
education,
and
ran
away from
God
and his house,
and
his
worship,
as the gentiles had
doñe
from
the
religion and
instruc-
tions
of Noah their
ancestor.
Ye
that
have
wandered
afar
off from
your
Father's
house, even to
the
ends
of
the earth,- and
are
perishing
with
the prodigal son
at
a
dreadful distance
from
Úòd
and heaven
:
Come,
look
unto .Christ and be
saved..
4.
Ye that
are mourning
in
darkness, as
it
were
at
the
ends
of
the earth, and
on
the
very
borders
Of
hell,
without
hope,
as
the gentiles
were; Eph.
ii.
12.
almost
giving up
all
for
lost, yielding to
final
despair, look to
Jesus
the Saviour,
lay
hold
on,the
hope-that
is
set before
you and
live.
,And
while
I
am
preaching in
this
placee,
I
may
add
also,
.5.
You that
dwell
in
dark
corners
of
this our
land,
far
from
any
place
of
religious worship
:
Ye
who live by
the
sides
of
the forest,
or
on
bare and solitary
commons,'
in a
poor ignorant
village,
or
in lonesome cottages,
'where letters
and reading are
not
known,
and
,a
bible
is
a.
_strange.
thing,
where books are
seldom
seen,
and
the
This
was
delivered
in
a village
in
the country.