VII. The happy Effect of such a Trial.

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“Ys there no Balm in Gilead? Is there no Physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” Jer. vili. 22.
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LEAVING the thoughtless and the gay, who too often regard an appeal to their reason as little as they do the warnings of conscience, let me address myself to thee, serious and well-disposed Reader, and endeavour to show thee the way to the king- dom of heaven, by testifying to thee repentance to- wards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thou art happily weary of feeding upon the husks - of earthly vanities. I have a right therefore, as a steward of the mysteries of God, to bring out of the divine treasury the pearls of evangelical truth: and I gladly cast them before thee, persuaded, that far from awakening thy anger, they will excite thy desires, and animate thy languid hopes. )
Instead of ridiculing or dreading a heart-felt con-' viction of thy lost estate, thou now seest it is a de-' sirable privilege, an invaluable blessing. Ready to mourn because thou canst not mourn, thou com- plainest, that thou hast only a confused view of thy total depravity. Thou wantest the feelings of the royal penitent, when he said, ‘“‘ Behold, I was shapen in iniquity,” &c.—* I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me ;”——but conscious thou canst not raise them in thy heart by natural powers, thou desirest some scriptural directions suitable to thy’ case. Give me leave to introduce them bya few -