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hand, for our hearers look to us in order to hear the right instruction, that they may be justified in time and in eternity. My deaf fellow-laborers in the gospel of Christ, there is something awful in the thought of eternity; how watchful should we be to be prepared to approach the judgment seat al the great day, and at his tribunal to hear our doom, come ye blessed, depart ye cursed. But if we have complyed with charity, our conscience will be clear, of having done our duty unto God and all men; for here is a duty encumbent upon us, to live such lives before the world as will entitle us to the smiles of our blessed Redeemer in that decisive hour. Amen. See 2 Tim. 4. c. 5 v. But watch! The intention of preaching the gospel is to call sinners from darkness unto light, for in that light the sinner may see that he is diseased, and in the light of knowledge, he sees that Christ is the great physician of souls, and if he will act upon the will of his moral agency, he can come to Christ. and be healed, like the man that was diseased for thirty years, he came to Christ and was made whole; even the blind man who cryed out with a loud voice unto Jesus, saying "thou son of David have mercy on me;" this will show free agency as well as moral agency: the moral agency on the body, the free agency on the soul, free to think, free to act, free to pray unto God in prison and out of prison. If so, justice is that great standard or boundary of righteousness, which will enable us to render to every man his just due, for this kind of virtue will strengthen us, so as to comply with all that which is good and great, for after Christ put the clay on the man's eyes his eyes was not opened; and here we see there is something to do. Some people say that they have nothing to do, for this cause they loose their souls. Take notice, that after the clay was on the man's eyes, the next thing, was a commandment to go to the pool and wash; methinks that if he had not gone to the pool his eyes would not have been opened. Therefore, we see it is right for us to keep the commandments of God; obedience was the cause of this man's eyes being opened. Well, now is it not right when God has commanded sinners to come to him, and they will not come, how is it possible they can receive their sight, for he is the pool of the gospel? We need not now to wait for the angel to come down and
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