A Concluding Speech

I Have now done, and am looking to Heaven for a blessing upon these weak Labors: what use you will make of them, I know not; but this I know, that the day is coming, when God will reckon with you for this, and all other helps and means afforded to you. And if it be not improved by you, be sure it will be produced as a witness against you. Sirs, I beg you in the Name of Christ, before whom both you and I must shortly appear, that you receive not these things in vain. Did I know what other lawful means to use that might reach your hearts, they should not be in vain to you; but I cannot do God's part of the work, nor yours. Onely I request you all, both Masters, common Men, and all others, into whose hands this shall come, that you will lay to heart what you read; pray to him that has the Key of the House of David, that opens and no man shutteth, to open your hearts to give entertainment to these truths. Alas! If you apply it not to your selves, I have Iaboured to no purpose, the Pen of the Scribe is in vain: But God may make such an application of them, in one Storm or another, as may make your hearts to tremble. O Sirs! when Death and Eternity look you in the face, Conscience may reflect upon these things to your horror and amazement, and make you cry out, as Proverbs 5:12, 13. How have I hated knowledge, and my heart despised reproof? And have not obeyed the voice of my Teacher, nor inclined my ears to them that instructed me? And O what a dreadful shriek will such Souls give, when the Lord opens their eyes, to see that misery that they are here warned of! But if the Lord shall bless these things to your Conversion, then we may say to you, as Moses did to Zebulun, the Mariner's Tribe Deuteronomy 33:12. Rejoyce Zebulun, in your going out. The Lord will be with you which way soever you turn you selves; and being in the bosome of the Covenant, you are safe in the midst of all dangers. O! you that are the Father of Spirits, that formedst, and canst easily reform the heart, open you the blind eye, unstop the deaf ear, let the Word take hold upon the heart. If you will but say the word, these weak Labors shall prosper, to bring home many lost Souls to you. Amen.

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