Sinner, the doctrine of Christ crucified cries therefore aloud unto thee, that sin has made thy condition dreadful.  See yourselves, your sins, and consequently the condition that your souls are in by the death and blood of Christ Christ’s death gives us the most clear discovery of the dreadful nature of our sins.

I say again, if sin he so dreadful a thing as to break the heart of the Son of God, how shall a poor, wretched, impenitent, damned sinner wrestle with the wrath of God?

Awake, sinners; you are lost, you are undone, you perish, you are damned; hell-fire is your portion for ever, if you abide in your sins, and be found without a Saviour in the dreadful day of judgment.

Sinner, doth not all this discourse make thy heart twitter after the mercy that is with God, and after the way that is made by this plenteous redemption thereto?  Methinks it should; yea, thou couldest not do otherwise, didst thou but see thy condition.  Look behind thee, take a view of the path thou hast trodden these many years.  Dost thou think that the way that thou art in will lead thee to the strait gate, sinner?  Ponder the path of thy feet with the greatest seriousness; thy life lies upon it; what thinkest thou?  But make no answer till in the night, till thou art in the night-watches; commune with thine own heart upon thy hed, and there say what thou thinkest of whither thou art going.

Oh that thou wert serious!  Is not it a thing to be lamented, that madness and folly should be in thy heart while thou livest, and after that to go to the dead; when so much life stands before thee, and light to see the way to it?  Surely men void of grace and possessed of carnal minds must either think that sin is nothing, that hell is easy, and that eternity is short; or else that whatever God has said about the punishing of sinners, he will never do as he has said; or that there is no sin, no God, no heaven, no hell, and so no good or bad hereafter; or else they could not live as they do.  But perhaps thou presumest upon it, and sayest, I shall have peace, though I live so sinful a life.  Sinner, if this wicked thought be in thy heart, tell me again, dost thou thus think in earnest?  Canst thou imagine thou shalt at the day of account outface God, or make him believe thou wast what thou wast not; or that when the gate is shut up in wrath, he will at thy pleasure and to the reversing of his own counsel, open it again to thee?  Why shall thy deceived heart turn thee aside, that thou canst not deliver thy soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Friend, because it is a dangerous thing to be walking towards the place of darkness and anguish, and because notwithstanding, it is the journey that most of the poor souls in the world are taking, I have thought it my duty for preventing thee, to tell thee what sad success those souls have had that have persevered therein.  Why, friend, it may be—­nay, twenty to one, thou hast had thy back to heaven and thy face towards