be lodged in the grave. Can you end the thought of reflecting in a dying ho that you did not confess Christ before mer

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Are there not those in this congregati who have grown up, and grown old, in s Do not your words and actions bear witn that you have not the fear of God bef your eyes? You have remained obstin under the many calls which you have h from the word and providence of God. Y have often been warned to flee from wrath to come, and to lay hold on the ho set before sinners in the gospel. hearts have remained impenitent, while y have seen some around you pressing into kingdom of God. The pious of your age about to be received into the heavenly m sions, while you appear to be ripening the world of endless misery. Wake from your dangerous sleep-look back past life and look forwad to the judgm to come. You stand upon the thresh of the eternal world. O realize the wo of your immortal souls! Feel the worth time! And devote its few remaining da to the fear of the Lord. Contend no lon er with the divine government-be rece ciled to God-build your hope on his so

into many houses, in which a worldly a vain spirit had heretofore excluded even form of religion. Parents have publicly dicated themselves and their children God. Can you look on these things a remain unmoved? After every attempt find hipocrisy in Christian professors, do your consciences tell you in the hour of flection, that your pious neighbours a friends are acting a wise part? And that th will be swift witnesses against you at bar of God, if you spend your lives in s Provoke him not to pour out his fury up you; but humbly seek his gracious p sence. "The curse of the Lord is in house of the wicked: But he blesseth habitation of the just."

Flattering as may be your worldly hop they may be cut off in a moment. In t midst of your exertions, and while you a in your full strength, death may be comm sioned to do its work upon you. It is of finite importance to be prepared to dep from this world in peace. Of what avail w be earthly glory in a dying hour? Wou you die the death of the righteous, and ha your last end like his, now die unto sin a live unto God.