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Seer and open, I will come in, and ſup with him. Will thoſe ſay, I would have opened my Heart, had it not been for the Love of Sin, or for Eaſe, or Liberty, or Honour, or Friends or Companions ? Oh, how will Men and Angels hiſs at thee! This is the Perſon, who for Luſt's fake forſook his Mercies,who, for a little vanity neglected his own Salvation: O! how wilt thou curſe thy ſelf, that for nothing, nay, for that which is worſe than nothing, thou haſt put off Chriſt and his Salvation? Therefore Men, Brethren and Fathers, hearken unto me, as Moſes ſaid to the Iſraelites; So this Day I propone unto you Bleſſing and Curſing Life and Death: Salvation, if you open to Chriſt; and Damnation, if you refuſe Chriſt.
For the Lord's ſake,chuſe not Curſing but Bleſſing : Chuſe not Death, but Life; chuſe not Hell, but Heaven; chuſe not Sin, bus Chriſt; tho' you have formerly ſlighted him; If you will now regard him, tho you have formerly contemned him, yet if you will praiſe him, tho you have formerly reſiſted, If yet you will yield, if yet you will conſent, if yet you will become willing to open unto Chriſt; Chriſt will be yours, Mercy will be yours, Salvation will be yours. And what would you have more? What will not all this do? Will not Mercy alure
you? Will Dot Love conſtrain you? Then
