all about them. Are any of you come from the Foundery, or any other place to-night; I do not care where you come from, I pray God you may all quarrel to-night; I want you to fall out with your own hearts; if we were employed as we ought to be, we should have less time to talk a bout vain things that are the subjects of conversation: God grant your crosses may be left at the cross of the Lamb of God this night.

And if there be any of you here, as no doubt there are many, that are crying what nonsense he is preaching to night, I should not wonder if they were to mimick me when they go home; if they should say, I thank God, I was never cast down; you take God's name in vain; you thank God you was never cast down, the very answer you have given makes me cast down for you; why so? why, as the Lord liveth, I speak out of compassion, there is but one step between thee and death. Don't you know the sessions began at the Old Bailey to-day, if there were any capitally convicted, what would you think to see them playing at cards, or go on rattling and drinking, and swearing? would not you yourself cry, and if it were a child of your own, would it not break your heart? but yet thou art that wretch; I must weep for thee, my brother-sinner; we had both one father and mother, Adam and Eve; this was our sad original.

Dear Christians, pray for me to-night. I remember once I was preaching in Scotland, and saw ten thousand effected in a moment, some with joy, others crying I cannot believe; others, God has given me faith, some fainting in their friends arms seeing two stout creatures upon a tomb stone, hardened indeed, I cried out, you rebels

come down, and down they fell directly, and cried before they went away, What shall we do to be. saved? Have any of you got apprentices, whom you have brought from time to time to the Tabernacle, but now will not let them come, because you think they grow worse and worse, and you will be tempted to leave off praying for them? don't do that; who knows but this may be the happy time. Children of Godly parents, apprentices of Godly people, servants of people who fear the Lord, that hear gospel-preachers, that are on the watch for every infirmity, that go to their fellow-servants and say, these saints love good eating and drinking, they are only gospel-gossips; is this the case with any of you, if it is, you are in a deplorable condition, under the gospel and not convinced thereby : O may God bring down you rebels to-night; may this be the happy hour you may be cast down and disquieted within you. What can I say more? I would speak till I burst, I would speak till I could say no more. O poor souls, that hast been never yet cast down, I will tell you, if you die without being cast down, however you may die and have no pangs in your death, and your carnal relations may thank God that you died like lambs, but no sooner will your souls be out of your bodies, but God will cast you down to hell, you will be lifting up your eyes in yonder place of torment, you will be disquieted, but there will be nobody there to say, hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, &c. O my God, when I think of this, I could go to the very gates of hell to preach. I thought the other day, O if I had my health, I would stand on the top of every hackney coach, and preach Christ to those poor creatures. Unconverted old people, unconverted

young people, will you have no compassion on your own souls: if you will damn yourselves, remember I am free from the blood of you all. O if it be thy blessed will, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, take the hearts of these sinners into thy hand. Methinks I see the heavens opened, the Judge sitting on his throne, the sea boiling like a pot, and the Lord Jesus coming to judge the world; well, if you are damned, it shall not be for want of calling after. O come, come, God help you to come, whilst Jesus is standing ready to receive you. O fly to the Saviour this night for refuge; remember if you die in an unconverted state you must be damned for ever.

O that I could persuade but one poor soul to fly to Jesus Christ, make him your refuge; and then however you may be cast down, hope in Gad, and you shall yet praise him. God help those that have believed, to hope more and more in his salvation, till faith be turned into vision, and hope into fruition. Even so, Lord Jesus. Amen and Amen.

SERMON XIII.

SPIRITUAL BAPTISM.

ROMANS Vi, ver. 3, 4.

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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BELIEVE, my dear hearers, I may venture to tell you, that the longer you live, the more you will find that the royal preacher spoke truth when he said, There is nothing new under the sun; for as God is always the same, so the world, the Aesh, and the devil will be always the same, frail, vile, inimical and deceitful. New scenes surprise us, not because they are really new, but because they are new to us our lives are mostly taken up with viewing only the present appearance of things we have neither time or leisure to look back as we ought, or might, upon the events of providence, or the effects of the doctrines of grace. I will not say, my thoughts always run in a religious channel, but I will say I wish they did. The words in our text, as connected with what precedes and follows, contain the unchangeable truths of God; nor am I any ways staggered by opposition to the vindication of what the good old Puritans, and the Dissenters of the present age, call evangelical doctrine. I do not know a man that has wrought in a legal strain, or that reads, or talks in common conversation in a legal strain

but discovers his ignorance of, if not his enmity to the doctrine of justification by faith alone, by charging it with very bad consequences, and endeavouring to explode it as a dangerous doctrine, destructive of holiness, which they would seem to patronize; though if one were always to judge of them by their calumniating practice, one would imagine they had never read with proper attention, either the preceding or following chapters, nor that wherein is our text, which proves it to be a doctrine according to godliness, and therefore properly begins What shall we say then, shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? You will say, I have been insisting upon the universal depravity of nature, I have been bringing all down upon an equal level; that I have not only mentioned the dreadful state of Heathens, but the equally dreadful state of the haughty Jews, and ignorant Gentiles, one only sinning against the light of nature, and the other sinning against the light of revelation, by which both, in one sense, stand on an equal footing, though the last, who thinks he stands upon higher ground, appears to be only superior in sin; why then, how must either or both be saved, since they have nothing to recommend them, nothing to plead as an atonement for their sins? Here comes in the blessed doctrine of justification, by the glorious imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ, to be received by faith as instrument by the poor convicted sinner. If this be the case, shall we sin that grace may abound? this serves as a foil, to set off the riches of grace with a greater lustre. Is it not a very unfair deduction, to say never mind holiness, but sin that grace may abound, that God's grace may be more conspicuous? Pray how does the apostle treat this? with