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shut up, they tumble, and your heart trembles worse, and in the awful agony of your souk you are brought to cry unto God for mercy. But, O my God, to think of that awful day, when he shall call the seven thunders to utter their voices and shake the globe from pole to pole, and fling his lightning abroad; send Gabriel with his trump to sound the echoes through earth and down to hell; to call the nations great and small; when the seas shall roll her millions to the shores in order to come to judgment. Look and behold the turfy graves and marble pillars give way! Awake, the voice of God through his angel are sounding! your day of doom is come: here comes the horse gambler, the card player, the gambler, the sportsman, the adulterer, the fornicator, and all liars, the ball-room crew, the theatre company, who have neglected to repent of their sins; here him say to the damned, give back, give way ye antideluvians, ye Sodomites, to let down these gospel-slighters, these heaven-darers, God-provoking, to the lower caverns of hell; these are my enemies that fought against me and my people, and trampled down the blood of my everlasting covenant, under their unhallowed feet. They would not regard the voice of my master, but still call for swift destruction, and think you are like the troubled sea that cannot rest night nor day; you lived devoid of peace, a thousand stings in your breast which still deprive your souls of ease; your way is dark and leads down to hell; why will you still pursue? O think, can you in endless torment dwell, shut up in black despair? in pain you travel all your days, to reap eternal wo! but now just stop. O think, your bones are not iron, your flesh is not brass, and if it was hell, fire will be as a moth to you, through the countless ages of eternity; but now you have time to hear the gospel and attend to the duties which God has called upon you to perform, by bowing to the sceptre of his word, renouncing sin, submit to your sovereign Lord and learn his will divine. O fellow creatures, this is the state of free grace, will you come, for it will soon be too late, the way of life in Christ is for you to choose; therefore, come, lay your carnal weapon by, no longer fight against your Lord, but now comply with the gospel and heaven shall be your great reward in the great day of eternity. Your beloved friend wishes you these
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