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"pravity in my Nature, and a strong and prevailing Bias on my Will and Affections to Things contrary to thy Laws! and that I have been eagerly purfuing Objects, unbecoming the Defires, which "I ought to cherish! I am now convinced that I want a Saviour! and that I must be miferable for "ever without one!

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"I am now convinced that thy only begotten, " and well-beloved Son, the bleffed Jefus, is the "Saviour, and I thankfully accept of him as my "only Redeemer! as my great Prophet, Prieft, " and King!

"Faith is thy Gift! Lord, beftow this heavenly "Gift on me in a large Measure! and quicken "me by thy Spirit, who am naturally dead in Trefpaffes, and Sins!

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"O make me a new Creature in Chrift Jefus! "Make the old Things to pafs away, and all "Things to become new and holy in me!

"I now renounce all my Sins! I give up myself "unto Thee, to be thine in the everlafting Cove"nant; and to be inftructed, inclined, and enabled always to live according to the Engagements of ❝ it.

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"O pardon all my Sins! be Thou my reconciled "God, my Lord, my Lawgiver, and my Portion, "now henceforth, and for ever! Amen, for the "Sake of Chrift Jefus my Advocate, and Redeemer. "Amen."

Thus be you prevailed with to accept of Chrift, and devote yourselves to God; and teftify the Sincerity of your Faith in Chrift, and the Uprightness of your Hearts, by a conftant Attendance on the publick Worship of God, and a confcientious Obedience to all his Commandments.

# 2 Cor. v. 17.

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And let not the Scoffs and Derifions of any of your Acquaintance make you ashamed of the Gospel of Chrift, who fuffered Death, that you might obtain Forgiveness, and everlasting Life! nor afhamed of obferving his Sabbaths, and Ordinances, nor of owning his Cause, and his People.

Let the Operations of the Divine Providence be compared with the Declarations of God recorded in his Word, and they are a perpetual Evidence of the Divine Authority of the facred Scriptures, and of the Truth of the Gospel! An Evidence of the Being, Wisdom, Power, Goodnefs, and Righteousness of God, and of the Unreasonableness of Atheism, and Infidelity, and indeed of all Irreligion.

Many other Things I might fitly propose to the Confideration of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, who have long been under the Threatnings of the Word and Providence of God; but I will only add, that God, in the Time of his awful Vifitation of Cities and Countries for Sin, will make a Difference in his Dealings with the Righteous, and the Wicked. See Ifa. iii. 10, 11. Say ye to the Righteous that it fhall be well with him: For they fhall eat the Fruit of their Doings. Wo unto the Wicked, it fhall be ill with him: For the Reward of his Hands fhalll be given him.

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LETTER III.

Containing the Introduction, with fome Thoughts of the Importance of continuing the Ufe of the Expreffions in the Sacred Scriptures among Chriftians, and a Summary of the Evidences of the Truth of the Gofpel for the Conviction of fuch as are doubting of it; and the Confirmation of the Faith of Serious Christians; withall fhewing the fad State of Infidels, who have the Means of knowing the Truth.

N the foregoing Letters I gave a Summary of the Divine Laws, chiefly in the Order of the Ten Commandments, and confidered the Predictions relative to those

Perfons, who live in wilful Difobedience to any of them; I have fhewed that the Holy God, who has denounced everlasting Punishments, and Torments on them in the next World, has likewise threatned them with horrible Punishments, and Miseries in this.

I have fhewed that the Righteous God will vifit Cities, and Countries with his great Plagues, if the Wicked Inhabitants of them will not be reformed, either by his Methods of Mercy, or by his leffer Judgments.

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Thefe Things I have given an Account of; that fo by the Confideration of them fome Perfons may be brought to Repentance towards God and Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is both able, and willing to fave, even the Chief of Sinners.

The terrible Predictions of inexpreffible Miferies to be inflicted on incorrigible Sinners, collected in the foregoing Papers, may well fill the Minds of impenitent, ftubborn Perfons with Amazement and Horror. And especially fince the Righteous God is rifen out of his Place to punish the Inhabitants of the World for their Iniquities; fince by his just Providence thro' the Courfe of feveral late Years, He has been bringing upon - many Cities and Countries the Miferies of War, or of Peftilence, or of Famine; ruining Thousands after Thousands, both Rich and Poor, and deftroying the Lives of Multitudes after Multitudes: I fay fince thefe Events, there is Reafon for wilful Sinners to be afraid.

And thofe Cities and Nations, which have hitherto been preferved in Health, Tranquility and Plenty, have no Ground to imagine they fhall always escape unpunished; but they have Reason to fear fuffering the like Judgments except they repent.

God indeed delights not in the Miseries of his difobedient Servants: Say to them, as I live faith the LORD GOD I have no Pleasure in the Death of the Wicked, but that the Wicked turn from his Way, and live. (Ezek. xxxii. 11.) Joyful Tidings to all Sorts of Sinners! God in his infinite Mercy has provided a mighty Saviour, his only begotten and well beloved Son; and in his Gospel has revealed the Way, by which the most wretched Tranfgreffors may obtain a fure Intereft in him, and Salvation by him.

This fure Way, I have likewife confidered in the former Letters, that fo none may Defpair, but all may be prevailed with by the Loving-kindness of the Lord; to renounce their Sins, and with Joy accept of Chrift, and truft in him, to fave them from their Sins, and from the dreadful Wrath, which is coming on the Children of Difobedience.

I fhall in the following Papers confider thofe PREDICTIONS Of Bleffings, which may administer Comfort to the Minds of ferious Chriftians at all Times; and particularly when God is vifiting the Inhabitants of any City, or Country, for their Iniquities.

I may obferve that in all Ages, and in every Town and Nation; there are in God's Account, but two Sorts of People; viz. the Righteous, and the Wicked: Into these general Claffes they are diftributed, in Gen. xviii. 23, 25.

The Expreffion the Righteous comprehends all thofe, who did know, love, and ferve God, all who believed his Word, and whofe Course of Life was a Practice of all Duties towards God and Man, required by the Divine Laws; and the Expreffion the Wicked includes all thofe, who would not practice the Duties they owe to God and Man, and did not believe his Word.

The Expreffions ftill retain the fame Significations. And at the End of the World people will be divided only into two Sorts. When the Son of Man fhall come in his Glory, and all the Holy Angels with him, then fhall be fit upon the Throne of his Glory, and before him fhall be gathered all Nations, and be fhall feparate them one from another, as a Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats; and he fhall fet the Sheep on his right Hand, and the Goats on his left. (Matt. xxv. 31, 32, 33.) By the Metaphor of Sheep are meant the faithful Servants of God, the true Difciples of Chrift; and by that of Goats

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