“Christ’s love is a free love.  He gives His love freely, without any reward, and so it is free love; the offer is alike to all.  If ye will but take it off his hand, He makes open proclamation of it to you all, saying, ‘Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.’  Oh, my friends, all other love is infinitely beneath this.  He took not on him the nature of angels, but He took the seed of Abraham.  Oh, my friends, God hath made us the centre of His love; and therefore, I beseech you, do not despise His love.  He came not to redeem any of the fallen angels, but the seed of Abraham.”

In the following moving terms, he pleads with his hearers to accept of Christ and his salvation:—­“Your eternal enjoyment of God will be your element, which ye shall for ever delight in, and this shall be to praise and admire his love.  For, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that the Lord hath prepared for them that love Him.  Oh, then, sirs, what think ye of Christ?  Will ye not, at this time, say, He is your Beloved and your Friend?  Oh, give your consent to become His friends, and accept of Him as your friend.  I leave this offer at your door; He is willing to befriend you, if you will come into an estate of friendship with Him.  Come, come, and take His offer off his hand.  Say not that ye have continued so long in sin, that ye know not if He will befriend you now; for if ye will come to Him, He will yet befriend you.  Therefore, for the Lord’s sake, put not away such an offer, but take it in the present time; for ye know not if ever ye shall have an offer again.  If ye will not take his offer off His hand this day, I will be a witness against you in the great day of judgment, that this day, the Son of righteousness offered Himself to be your friend, and ye have made light of the offer.  Yea, the hills and mountains about us shall be witnesses that ye had Christ in your offer such a day, in such a place; therefore, my dear friends, say now that He is your beloved, and that He is your friend.”

His close dealing with the conscience, and his solemn warnings and exhortations are exemplified in the following passages:—­

“Consider your own condition without Christ.  Ye are lost and undone, limbs of Satan, children of wrath, hell to be your dwelling-place, and devils and damned souls to be your company eternally, and where sin shall be your eternal torment.  This is your condition without Jesus Christ.  What think ye of eternal exclusion from the presence and comfort of God?  What think ye of hell, where there is nothing but utter darkness, weeping and wailing for evermore, to be your dwelling-place?  What think ye of devils to be your continual company?  And what think ye of sin to be your continual life—­always blaspheming the glorious name of God?  And what think ye of your final condition—­to be in continual torment—­always weeping and gnashing