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by your lives and actions, daily cheating and defrauding, you cannot expect to be heard: nay God may justly say unto you at last, out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee thou wicked servant, Mat. 22 c. 13 v. bind him hand and foot, but oh God forbid that this should be the sentence of our dear hearers; may they speedily return and fly to Jesus and find shelter; think over this prayer before you sleep the sleep of death; you must use it again and again, and beg God to give you grace to enable you to use it with understanding and sincerity, that the rich blessing asked for in it may be yours and God be glorified in your everlasting salvation, Luke 10 c. 30 v. a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jerico and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him, and departed leaving him half dead; a certain priest went that way, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side; likewise a Levite came and looked on him and passed by on the other side; a certain Samaritan who journied came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him, bound up his wounds, poured in oil and wine, sat him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him; when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, take care of him and whatever thou spendeth more I will repay thee. First, the priest is the moral law, the Levite the ceremonial law; from the fall of man these being not competent to save man only by grace, so these passed by and left the man half dead, until the coming of Christ the good Samaritan, he bound up the wounds by pouring the pure doctrine of his kingdom in the hearts of the children of men; the two pence the old and the new testaments, and to-morrow he departed and the reply is whatever more is due I will repay, that is for all the soul, our life to gain it, and when he comes again to judge the world, to take his ransomed people home; the host is the church of God with her children, the general assembly of the first born which arc written in heaven, Heb. 12 c. 23 v. the priest and the Levite passed by though professing to be christians, they are or may be considered as the people of this day, that profess to be christians and are not in heart, they do not unto their neighbors as they would wish those neighbors to do unto them, Mat. 7 c. 12 v. they would wish to receive
