dissolved, and the elements melt with fervent heat,— safe, because ready for every condition. Judge for yourself, can I feel that for all who profess and call themselves Christians?

Then I should feel that you were truly happy ;happy, because the springs of your happiness would be in heaven, and never dry;-happy, because your peace would be that blessed peace which the world can neither give nor take away. Judge for yourself, can I feel that for all who profess and call themselves Christians?

Reader, I make no secret of my wishes, whatever you may think of them. God is my witness, these are my wishes, these are my desires for everybody.

II. Secondly, I have a word of SORROWFUL WARNING for some into whose hands these pages will fall.

Some of you know in your own hearts and consciences, though I could say it weeping,-you know well, that you are not walking with God.

You, to whom I now speak, know well that God's ways are not your ways,—that although you profess and call yourselves Christians, your hearts are not right in His sight. You have no heart-felt hatred for sin. You have no heart-felt love for God's commandments. You have no delight in God's word. You have no pleasure in the company of His people. weariness to you. His service is a burthen. nances are not precious to your soul. Your first and best thoughts are given to the life that now is,—you spend but the wreck and remnant of them on the life to come.

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Your treasure is on earth and not in heaven.

Your affections are set on things below, and not on things above. Your friendship is with the world, and not with God.

Oh! reader, what has the Lord God done to you that you should treat Him in this fashion? What can the world do for you, that you should love it better than Christ? Would the world die for you?—No! but Jesus did. Can the world put away your sins?—No! Jesus alone can. Does the world give true peace in this life?-No! but Jesus does. Will the world give comfort in death?-No! but Jesus will. Can the world help you in the day of judgment?-No! No! none can help you then but Christ!

Reader, what will you do when God riseth up, except you alter?-when He visiteth, what will you answer Him, except you change?

Do you not know that whatsoever a man soweth he shall also reap? He that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption :-He only that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life eternal. The world you think so much of now passeth away. doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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But God, our Saviour, still loves you. willing that any one should perish. He sends you by my mouth a message of peace this day. Turn from the broad way and come unto Christ while there is yet time. Turn before the fountain is sealed, now open for sin and uncleanness;-before the Father's house is closed for ever and not one more allowed to enter;-before the Spirit and the Bride cease to invite. Be wise, repent, return, and come.

Reader, you cannot prevent my grieving over you, although you may be at ease yourself. God is my witness, this day I have given you a warning.

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III. Thirdly, I have a word of QUICKENING STIRRING-UP for all true believers, into whose hands this tract may fall.

Believing reader, I trust I may say of you, you love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Know then that I want you to be a bright and shining light to those around you. I want you to be such a plain epistle of Christ, that all may read something of God on the face of your conversation. I want you so to live that all may see that you are one of the people of Jesus, and thus to glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Alas! I say it with shame, we many of us bring little glory to the Lord who bought us; we are far from walking worthy of our vocation. How weak is our faith! How fleeting our sorrow for sin! How faint our self-denial ? How soon spent our patience! How thin and thread-bare our humility? How formal our prayers! How cold our love! We are called God's witnesses, but truly our witness is often little better than silence;-it is but an uncertain sound. We are called the light of the world, but we are,—many of us,-poor, glimmering sparks that can only just We are called the salt of the earth, but we scarcely do anything to make our Saviour felt and known. We are called pilgrims and strangers, but those who observe us might sometimes think this world was our only home. Often, too often, we prove to be

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one thing in name, and another in reality;-high in our professions, but low in our practice;-giants in our resolutions, but infants in our actions ;-angels and spiritual in our talking, heathen, or little better, in our doing;-goodly, like Naphtali, in our words,-unstable, like Reuben, in our works.

Oh! believing readers, these things ought not so to be. We must not be content with a low measure of holiness. We must not rest satisfied with a little sanctification. We must not think it is enough, because we have attained a small degree of grace, and are just one step better than the world. No! indeed, we must go forward from strength to strength. We must shine more and more unto the perfect day. We must strive to bear much fruit.

Christ did not give Himself to us that we should be a sleeping generation,-trees that grow not,-always standing still. He would have us be a peculiar people, zealous of good works,—valiant for the truth,—fervent in spirit,-living not unto ourselves, but unto Him. Freely saved, we should freely and willingly labour. Freely forgiven, we should freely and cheerfully work. Freely redeemed from more than Egyptian bondage, we should count it a pleasure and a privilege to serve the Lord. Our lives should be books of evidences. Our acts should tell out whose we are. "Ye are my friends," saith Jesus, "if ye do whatsoever I command you."

Brother or sister, what do you in the world? Where is the proof of your growth in grace? Are you awake, or are you asleep? Are there no tempers you might keep under more strictly? Is there no sort of besetting

sin you are shamefully sparing? Is there no time you might employ more usefully? Is there no kind of selfishness you are secretly indulging? Is there no good you have the means of doing, and leave undone ? Are there no daily habits you might alter for the better? Are there no spots upon your spiritual garments which you never seek to have washed out? Are there no friends and relations you are letting alone in their sins? Oh! that you may deal more honestly with yourself than you have done hitherto ! The Lord is at

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Brother or sister, look within. Take heed lest a deceitful heart, and an ensnaring world, and a busy devil, turn you out of the way. Study a tender concience. Beware of indolence under the cloak of false humility. Make not the old Adam, and the devil, an excuse for little sins. Let the least things of your daily life be done well;-like the shekel of the sanctuary, let them be good measure,-let them be even more than full weight. Remember the Apostle's advice "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." (1 Cor. xvi. 13.) They that follow the Lord fully are those that follow Him most comfortably. Be zealous though the world may sleep.

Brother or sister, I give you this word of quickening in love. I would not have you be the least in the kingdom of heaven. I would not like you to be the palest and dimmest amongst the stars in glory. I want you not only to be scarcely saved, and so as by fire, but to receive a full reward. Then lay these things well to heart.