blackened and maligned by enemies? Behold the LAMB of GOD: He was accounted a mad-man, a deceiver, nay, a Beelzebub, the very chief of the devils. Are ye afraid of death, or dying Behold the LAMB of GOD: He hath taken away the fting of that king of terrors, and came to deliver thofe, who through fear of death were all their life-time fubject to bondage. Doubt ye whether ye thall hold out to the end? Behold the LAMB of GOD;" He is the Author and finisher of our faith;" and having loved his own, he loved them even unto the end. Do ye want more grace, either to mortify remaining corruption, or to enable you to bring forth more fruit unto GOD? Behold the LAMB of GOD: "Out, of his fulness we may all receive, and that too, even grace for grace;" grace upon grace, grace to beget more grace, even till we are filled with all the fulness of GOD. O ye believers, my heart is enlarged towards you; look to, and live much on the bleffed JESUS; and then you will live to, and act for him more and more. Be thankful for what you have received, but be looking out continually for fresh discoveries of his love, and fresh incomes of heavenly grace, till you are called to behold this LAMB of GOD in glory: that time, blessed be God, will shortly come. Though worms deftroy our bodies, yet in our flesh we shall see our GOD; not as we do now, through a glaís darkly, but face to face: fee him as he is and what is yet better, be growing up more and more into his divine likeness, through the endless ages of eternity. But as for ungodly and obftinate unbelievers that die in their fins, it fhall not be fo with them. Behold him indeed you fhall; behold him you must; "For yet a little while, and we must all appear before the judgment- feat of CHRIST." But O! how shall Ispeak it? You must behold him once, never to behold him any y more! Behold him, not fo much as the LAMB of GOD, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and hear him roaring out that dreadful fentence, Depart, ye curfed, curfed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his an gels." O think of this, all ye that have hitherto neglected to behold this LAMB of GOD by faith, fo fhall unbelief not prove your final ruin. To you, even to you I once moreb call. Bleffed be GOD, the door of mercy is not yet shut; the Bay of grace is not yet over; look unto him, and you shall yet be saved his heart is open, and his arms ftretched out ready. to receive you. O that he would rend the heavens and come down amongst you; and as he had once compaffion upon a poor woman, that was bowed down with the fpirit of infir-, mity, lo eighteen years! O that he would repeat that allpowerful command, "Be ye loofed from your infirmity," and enable every unconverted finner to look up to, and behold the LAMB of GOD! However, if you will not come to him that you might have life, God forbid that I should cease to pray for you. O LORD GOD moft holy, O LORD GOD moft mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou moft worthy Judge eternal, by thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and paffion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious refurrection and afcenfion, and by the coming of the Holy Ghoft, we humbly entreat thee to help all fuch to take the warning that has now been given them! O help them to behold thee by faith here, that so no pains of hell may fall From thee whenever they are summoned to appear before thy awful tribunal hereafter! I am perfuaded all that love the LORD JESUS in fincerity, will fay, Amen! Even fo, LORD JESUS! Amen! and Amen! TH London, May 30, 1772. 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