us,
that believers, after death, enter into life eternal, and that the
punishment of the wicked will be everlasting [Matt. xxv. 46.;
Dan. xii. 2.; 2 Thes. i. 7-10.].

I have now given you a summary of the great truths, which, as a
minister of the gospel, I am commissioned and commanded to preach.
And I can call God and your consciences to witness, that I have not
shunned thus to declare to you the whole counsel of God [Acts xx. 27.].
I have explained to you the meaning, and I have urged the importance
of these things over and over. I have pointed out to you, the
wretched and dangerous condition of sinners, the necessity of
conversion or the new birth, the nature of this change, and by what
power it is wrought, and the fruits and effects which such a change
will produce in a man's tempers, words and actions. I have also shewn
you the way, in which you MAY and must be saved, if you are saved at
all. I have told you again and again, that Christ is the Way, the
truth, and the life, and that there is no coming to God with comfort,
either in this world, or in that which is to come, but by him. He has
told you so himself [John xiv. 6.; Acts iv. 12.]. And the apostle assures
you, that there is no other name under heaven, given unto men, whereby
they can be saved. Look unto him, and you shall be saved; if not, you must
be damned. This is the plain truth, the express declaration of the Bible.
Life and death are set before you [Deut. xxx. 15.].

Permit me then, as your minister, your friend, and a well-wisher
to your souls, to press these serious and weighty considerations home
upon your consciences once more. I hope and believe that I have
affected nothing, but what can be proved by the highest authority,
the word of the living God. They certainly deserve your closest and
most careful attention, since it is plain beyond a doubt, that upon
your knowledge or ignorance, your acceptance or rejection of this
gospel, your everlasting happiness or misery must depend.

Brethren, I do not ask you, what religious persuasion or denomination
you have espoused. I fear, that, if I may judge of your hearts by
your actions, too many are destitute of any sense of religion at all.
But I do not address you as Churchmen or Dissenters, Roman Catholics or
Protestants, as Jews or Gentiles; I suppose, yea, I know, that there
are persons of every denomination amongst you. But I speak to you as
men and women, as intelligent creatures, possessed of unde