And the bleffed Jefus has promifed unto his Difciples the holy Spirit as a Comforter in John xiv. 16. faying, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for

ever.

This Way is also a fure Way to Happiness, to Happiness both in this World and in that which is

to come.

It is declared in 1 Tim. v. 8. That Godliness is profitable unto all Things, having the Promife of the Life that now is, and of that which is to come.

The Abundance of precious Promises, Promifes of Bleffings, fpiritual and temporal, in this World to serious Christians, who believe in the Lord Jefus, and love, and ferve God in Holiness and Righteoufcefs, the Promises of an eternal Salvation, of a Crown of Glory, of an everlasting Life, and of eternal Inheritance, (Heb. ix. 15.) are Evidences that there is a fure Way to Happiness.

The Apostle Peter fays, Bleed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which, according to his abundant Mercy, bath begotten us again unto a lively Hope, by the Resurrection of Jesus Chrift from the Dead, to an Inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, referved in Heaven for you, 1 Pet. i. 3, 4.

In this World, many are the Afflictions of the Righteous, tho' few, very few, in Comparison with the Numbers of the Mercies they enjoy; and light, very light, in Comparison with the Weight and Importance of the Bleffings God has bestowed on them: But God is prefent with them in all their Afflictions, he puts under them the everlasting Arms, and will most certainly deliver them out of all their Troubles.

He will make all Things to iffue well unto them, as appears from that Declaration, Rom. viii. 28.

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viz. All Things work together for Good to them that love God, to them who are the Called according to his Purpose.

I have now fhewed from the infallible Word of God, the Way that leads to the Suffering of his Wrath in this World, and to an endless Destruction in the next; and also the Way, and the fure Way to Safety, Comfort, and Happiness, here and

for ever hereafter.

I fhall now conclude this Letter, with a brief Addrefs to thofe Sorts of Perfons, whom the righteous God has threatned with Punishments in this World.

And let me intreat fuch of you to confider the awful Threatnings denounced against you. You are the Objects, the miferable Objects of the divine Anger. The LORD's Indignation is against you, his terrible Controverfy is with you. You have been hitherto heaping up Wrath against the Day of Wrath; the Day of his wrathful Vifitation for Sin.

And tho' he may fuffer many Individuals, in each Sort of Sinners, to efcape, in this World, his threatned Vengeance, yet Multitudes will be deftroyed, and by a dreadful Violence be sent to take their dreadful Abode with Devils reserved in Chains under Darkness to the final Judgment.

And you do not know, that you fhall not be fome of this Multitude.

O ponder this in your Thoughts, and reafon with yourselves in the following Manner, as you have good Cause to do so, viz.

"How lamentable is my Condition! how fearful "are the Threatnings of the Almighty! how "fhall I be able to bear the Execution of them! "How bitter are the Reflections on the Iniquities "of my Heart and Life! What Advantage, "what Confolation have I, or can I have from "thofe Sins, which I have indulged! How monArous

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"ftrous, how heinous, how aggravated are the "Sins which I have been guilty of, and wilfully re"peated, Times without Number! Alas! what will "become of me, if I ftill go on in my evil ways! "God be merciful to me a Sinner! a vile Sinner, a "moft Hell-deferving Sinner! And may fuch a "one as I, hope for any Mercy? Is there a Way "for fuch a Tranfgreffor as I have been, to ob"tain Pardon, and Peace, and Reconciliation with "the holy God, whom I have fo much, and fo "long offended?

"Yes, O my Soul! there is a fure Way, even "for the Chief of Sinners, to obtain all that "Mercy, Salvation and Happinefs, which guilty " and wretched Creatures do want.

"The DECLARATIONS, the kind Declarations of God which I have read in this Letter, and "which are recorded in the facred Scripture, are undeniable Proofs of it.

An ADDRESS to GOD.

"And now, O moft gracious God, I humbly praise and thank thee for them; I now renounce "all my Sins with Shame and Grief: I confefs them "with a Loathing of them, and acknowledge that "thou mightest moft justly deftroy me. But, O. "fpare me for Chrift's Sake! for thy Mercy Sake!

"I believe that the Lord Jefus is both able and "willing to fave even the Chief of Sinners, and fuch "a vile Sinner as I have been. I believe him to be "the promised Saviour! Lord increase my Faith! "Help me against Unbelief! I take the Bleffed Je"fus to be my Saviour, and humbly befeech thee "by thy holy Spirit, thoroughly to convert, renew, "and fanctify me! and do thou work continually in me both to will, and to do of thy good Plea fure!

"I now devote myfelf to thee, to be thine in an "everlasting Covenant! I befeech thee from this Time to incline, and enable me to live according "to the holy Rules of thy Word." Amen, for Jefus Chrift his Sake.

Suitable REFLEXIONS.

" Q my Soul reflect upon it, and confider the "wonderful Patience of God towards thee, in not pouring out his Plagues upon thee, and fending "thee down quick into Hell! Think on the Riches

of his Mercy manifefted in giving thee this *Hour for renouncing thy Sins, and for accepting "the Saviour whom his Love provided; and think εί on his Grace in helping thee, by his holy Spirit, "to return to him through Chrift; and to trust in "Chrift Jefus alone for Salvation.

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Happy Tranfaction, between God and my Sout this Hour!

"If I had remained thoughtless, and inconfide"rate, and perfifted in my evil Ways, fome de*ftroying Judgment might have put an End to my "Life while I was fo doing; and then the impor "tant Tranfaction could never, never be performed. "But fince I have been through Grace enabled to accept of Chrift, and am become one of his Dif "ciples; fince I have devoted myself to God, and * renounced all my Tranfgreffions, I have great "Reafon to delight in God, as my God, and to re*joice in Chrift Jefus, as being now my dear Lord, "Mafter, and Redeemer.

"And may well hope, that whatever Confufions, and Calamities may happen in this Country, or "City, my Condition for Eternity is fafe, and will

be happy. Now I may lay afide all Fears of "Death, even when the killing Arrows fhall fall *thick around me.

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"For to a good Man, the Day of Death is bet *ter than the Day of his Birth, and when his Sou "becomes abfent from his Body, it will be present ❝ with the Lord, and the earthy House of this when "Tabernacle (viz. of his Body) fhall be diffolved;

he has a Building of God, an Houfe not made with Hands, eternal in the Heavens. 2. Cor. v. I, "And although in this World I may have Trou"ble, yet I may well hope for Peace in Chrift: Jefus; and therefore by the Help of the Holy "Spirit I will continue fecking to, and trusting in "the bleffed Jefus, and endeavour faithfully to ferve "my God and Saviour to the utmost End of "Life."

Thus may every one that repents of his Sins, and thankfully accepts of Chrift to be his Saviour, and Lord, as he is freely offered to all Sorts of Sinners in the Gospel; thus, I fay, may every such Perfon reafon within himfelf, and be comforted.

I will only add, that it is my earneft Prayer for thofe who have hitherto been regardless of God, of an Interest in Chrift and their Duty, and thoughtless of the Concerns of their immortal Souls, and hitherto walked in Ways of wilful Difobedience to the pure and holy Commandments of God, that they may by his Spirit have the foregoing Thoughts made their own, and their Souls inclined, and enabled to perform thofe Acts fignified by the Expreffions in the Addrefs to God.

O merciful God! hear this Prayer, and grant these Petitions for Jefus Chrift's Sake and for the glorious Manifestation of the Energy and Sovereignty of thy Grace, and of the Riches of thy Love! Amen. And let every one that fhall read thefe Papers fay Amen.

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