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and hang his head to think himself a man?" And yet some deem it a pity to degrade human nature by a hint of total depravity; while others plead this very obstinacy as their excuse for not loving God.

Awakened sinners, you have been resisting the Spirit all your days, but never probably with so much guilt and danger as now. Self-righteousness often whispers to you that you are now doing something more acceptable to God; but you have never done any thing but resist the Spirit with the whole strength of your soul, except the mere outward form. What wonder that the heavenly visiter has not left you forever! Some of you, in all probability, will continue to resist until he is gone,-gone perhaps to return no more; and then you will mourn out a whole eternity that you threw away the infinite price in your hands. Some of you will probably in a few days be more stupid than you ever were before; for you never can again be as you have been: you must be better or worse. And

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you die impenitent, your whole eternity will be more wretched for the call you are now slighting. Perhaps some of you have less feeling than you have had. This looks as if the Spirit was departing. Take the alarm. If salvation is not to be forever relinquished, take the alarm. Your all is at stake. Your condition was never so critical before. Hasten to a Saviour's feet. Whatever be your state of mind, hasten to a Saviour's feet. Put away that horrid resistance which you have always made to the divine Spirit. Submit to God without delay.

Go not over that threshold until you have given him your heart and devoted to him your life. How long halt ye between two opinions? God is now waiting for your decision. What is your answer? Will you believe and live, or will you disbelieve and die? You alone must determine that ponderous question. I leave you to make the great decision.

SERMON XVI.

EXHORTATION TO SERVE THE LORD.

DEUT. X. 12.

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Complaints are often made against the ministers of Christ that their preaching is too close and pungent. I sincerely wish that the world might once see what discourses the eternal God would himself deliver should he undertake to preach to men.What do I say? He has published a volume of discourses, and they have been more harshly treated than any of the sermons of his ministers. The words which I have read were taken from a sermon which God delivered in tones of awful grandeur from Mount Sinai, or else through the medium of Moses. If it seem hard to you to be required "to fear the Lord" your "God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord" your "God

with all" your "heart and with all" your "soul," be it remembered that this is not imputable to ministers, but to God himself. If any murmur at this, I have no controversy with them; I leave it to be settled between them and their Maker. Haying often preached with little effect myself, I would now retire and leave the God of Israel to preach to you. I would stand concealed in humble awe behind him, while he delivers his heavenly instructions to the people. Sermons are often heard as the words of men. It is difficult, to a distressing degree, to produce a realizing sense that the truths we preach proceeded from the lips of God. In the present case I hope this difficulty will not be felt. Had you stood at the foot of Sinai and heard the trumpet and the thunders, and heard the words of our text issuing from the thick darkness, you would not have doubted that they came from God. But they were heard in substance by a million of people, who trembled and fled as these sentiments were poured upon their ears from the burning mount. And now, after the lapse of more than three thousand years, it is still as true as ever that they proceeded from the lips of God. Receive them therefore with as much veneration as though a throne were set in this house, and the God of glory were seated on it, and these words were sounded from his divine lips. "And now," my people, "what doth the Lord" your "God require of" you, "but to fear the Lord" your "God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord" your "God with all" your "heart and with all" your "soul?”

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