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than you are able to bear. Look back upon the past, and think of the multitude, the heinousness, and dreadful consequences of your sins; think how often they have been repeated, and how greatly they have been aggravated; think of the mercies of God to you which cannot be numbered, and the love of God which cannot be measured; mercies abused, and love neglected! think, too, of his terrors which you have provoked, of his wrath which you have defied, and the fearful sentence of condemnation, which as a sinner you have justly deserved. And may the power of His Spirit be with you, to work in you more and more a conviction of sin, and a godly sorrow for sin, and lead you with true humiliation and penitence to feel your need of Christ, and to cleave to him for salvation with a true, living, and comforting faith.

Let us pray.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, by thy law is the knowledge of sin, and by thy Spirit the conviction of sin; grant

to us, we beseech thee, this knowledge and conviction more and more, that whilst with our lips we confess our sins and wickedness, we may feel and lament them in our hearts, and humble ourselves before thee in penitence and self-abasement as vile and miserable sinners. Thou knowest, O Lord, that we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, that we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own evil hearts, offended against thy holy laws, done many things which we ought not to have done, and left undone many things which we ought to have done, and that there is no spiritual health in us; work in us, we bessech thee, more and more that true repentance towards thee, and that lively faith in Jesus Christ, to which thou hast been pleased in thy mercy to promise the forgiveness of sins. Especially we would implore thy mercy for this person now called by this thy chastisement to self-examination and humiliation before thee; may the teachings of thy word and

the power of thy Spirit be present to his heart and mind, to bring his past sins to his remembrance, with all their guilt, and heinousness, and danger, that the remembrance of his sins may be grievous unto him, and the burden of them felt to be intolerable; that he may indeed be humbled and abased before thee, and mourn for his sins with godly sorrow. And whilst we implore for him the humbling power of thy Spirit, we would also implore the refreshing presence of thy grace, that the Spirit which convinces of sin, may be to him also the Comforter, and lead him, through a sense of his sinfulness, to seek and find forgiveness, acceptance, and peace, through Jesus Christ the Saviour.

ADDRESS V1.

The inability of Man to attain by his his own strength that state which is necessary for admission into Heaven.

I HOPE YOU have considered what has already been read to you respecting your sinful, guilty, and miserable state by natural corruption derived from Adam, and by actual transgressions committed by yourself. I would now desire you to consider the necessity of your being delivered from that state, and recovered to a very different state, and the utter impossibility of your thus delivering and recovering yourself. And may the portions of God's holy word which I purpose reading to you on this subject, be rendered profitable by the grace of his Spirit.

Let us pray.-(Prayer as before.)

Rom. v. 18.-By the offence of one judgment came upon all men to

condemnation.

Rom. vi. 23.-The wages of sin is death.

Gal. iii. 10.-Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Rom. viii. 13.-If ye live after the flesh ye shall die.

Rom. viii, 6.-To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Rom. vi. 14. I am carnal, sold under sin.

Rom. vi. 18.-In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.

Rom. viii. 8.-They that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Psalm lxxxix. 14.-Justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

Deut. xxxii. 4.-A God of truth, and without iniquity: just and right is

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