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fts the heart which once professed to love the Gospel, hut after- wards hecame cold and indififerent to it.
I can certainly testify, after sixteen years ministry, that hy far the most hopeless and painful deathheds I have attended have been those of backsliders. I have seen some such persons go out of the world without hope, whose conscience really ap- peared dead, buried and gone, and on whom every truth and doctrine, and argument appeared alike thrown away. They seemed to have lost the power of feeling, and could only lie still and despair. I fear the true account of such persons state of soul was the sentence of our Lord, on which I have now been dwelling.