the fine white linen garments of Christ's righteousness, to
wear in heaven, in clothing eternally. Ye shall have the glorious cloud
of witnesses--angels and the spirits of just men made perfect, for your
continual company; and ye shall have a life of love and joy everlasting,
with Him that is altogether lovely. Oh, then, come and take Jesus
Christ. Would ye make a happy choice? Then take Him and embrace Him, old
and young, man and woman, lad and lass. Now Christ is in your offer; and
you are all invited to come to Him. And now I charge you all, as ye
respect the glory of God, and as ye desire this happy condition that I
have spoken of to you, slight not this offer. Now the golden chain of
salvation is let down to you. Grip, grip it fast, before it is taken up
again. Go not away fools, lest ye never be at such a market-day again.
"What shall I say to persuade you? Let the excellency and glory of His
great name do it. Be entreated to accept of Christ in this present
offer. Here I obtest you, by what He hath purchased for sinners, and by
what He has suffered, come and embrace Him. I obtest you by the blood He
shed on the cross; I obtest you by the great drops of blood He shed in
the garden, and by all the joys that are above the clouds in heaven,
that ye put not this offer away. I obtest you, by all the torments of
hell, that ye put not this offer away. I obtest you by the glory of
heaven, and by the crowns which believers put on His head, that ye
slight not this offer.

"Here I take every man and woman to witness against one another, that ye
had Christ in your offer; and I shall be a witness against all of you
that have not received Christ _this night_. Yea, though he should never
be glorified in such a sort by me, yet I will be a witness against you.
Here, before the throne of grace, I declare in His name, that I have
made an offer of Him unto you; and, therefore, your blood shall be upon
your own heads if ye perish, and I shall be free of the same."

In another place, he presses with like earnestness acceptance of the
gospel offer:--"If ye would be rightly concerned, ye must at once come,
and be a right son or daughter of the church, and member of Jesus
Christ; until then, ye cannot have a fellow-feeling of the body. Come
then, and Christ will give you a fellow-feeling with the sufferings of
the church. Come and embrace Himself, and He will set the stamp of
natural children upon you. Without Him, ye can do nothing; wit