gofpel. Solemnly affure them, that there they may find a reft to their heart; and that God is offering himself to them as fuch. 8thly, Make it known to them, how good a mafter God is; how pleasant the way of holiness is: what an ill mafter Satan is; how contrary and odious fin is to God; how dear it flood Chrift; how bitter it will be to the finner here or hereafter. 9thly, Put them on praying by any means, and teach them to pray, and inculcate on them the neceffity of it. 10thly, Make known to them how God is a God of exact juftice, and pureft truth and from thence, as ye love their fouls, endeavour often to inculcate on them, and imprefs them with a horror of injuftice in the leaft things, and of lying in any cafe. The fad way fome are brought up in thofe points, leave them without any confcience of common honesty or truth. And mind that precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little, If. xxviii. 10. And be not difcouraged though ye fee not the fruit. The fruit may come when ye are in your grave. Mind Manaffeh's converfion, when his godly father was dead and gone. Now, ye young folk, and young ones, for whofe caufe fo much has been faid, I will leave this text, with three words to you, and a great offer. 1. Chrift and the devil is friving about you. Chrift is ftriving for you by his minifters, your parents, and masters, that show a concern for your foul, and by your own confciences. The devil is ftriving AIII ftriving to hold you, by his temptations, a vain world and wicked, and your own lufts. But the devil is a murderer, the world is falfe, and your lufts are deceitful, which ye will find if ye trust them. now. 2. Ye are between the lofing and the winning If Chrift get you when ye are young, 'ye will ferve him with life and fpirit: if the devil prevail, the elder ye grow, ye will go the farther from God. For youth goes with a great fwing right or wrong. 3. Eternity is at stake with you ; eternal well or eternal woe, according to the fide ye shall chufe. I offer Chrift to you, and declare that he is willing to be yours, and make you happy for ever, and be a reft to your hearts: Matth. xxii. 4. Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. Prov. viii. 17. I love them that love me, and those that feek me early fhall find me. Remember this, and say Amen. A Collection of SERMONS on several important Subjects in Divinity. By the late Mr BOSTON of Ettrick. The TEXTS are as follow. I. LUKE xiii. 5. I tell you, Nay but except ye repent, ye shall all likewife perish. II. PROV. vi. 10. 11. Yet a little fleep, a little flumber, a little folding of the hands to fleep. So fhall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. III. LUKE Xxiii. 42. Lord, remember me when thou comeft into thy kingdom. IV. ECCL. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the fons of men is fully fet in them to do evil. V. LUKE vi. 46. And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I fay? VI. JOHN xiii. 8. If I wash thee not, thou haft no part with me. VII. 1 TIM. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith. VIII. PHIL. iii. 3. For we are the circumcifion, which worship God in the fpirit, and rejoice in Chrift Jefus, and have no confidence in the flesh. IX. REV. xxi. 22. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God almighty, and the Lamb are the temple of it. N: B. The above Texts are largely opened up, and applied. To be printed from the Author's original Manufcripts. |