Therefore let me beseech you, in all love and compassion: Consider, you, who are Pharisees; you, who will not come to CHRIST, but are trusting to yourselves for righteousness; who think, because you lead civil, honest, decent lives, all will go well at last; but let me tell you, O ye Pharisees, that harlots, murderers, and thieves, shall enter the kingdom of GOD before you. Do not flatter yourselves of being in the way to heaven, when you are in the broad way to hell; but if you will throw away your righteousness and come to CHRIST, and be contented to let JESUS CHRIST do all for you, and in you, then CHRIST is willing to be your Saviour; but if you bring your good works with you, and think to be justified on the account of them, you may seek to be justified by them for ever, and never be justified; no, it is only the blood of JESUS that cleanseth us from the filth and pollution of all our sins; and you must be sanctified before you are justified. As for good works, we are justified before GOD without any respect to them, either past, present, or to come: when we are justified, good works will follow our justification, for we can do no good works, until we are cleansed of our pollution, by the sanctification of the Spirit of GOD.
O ye scoffers, come and see this JESUS, this LORD of glory whom you have despised; and if you will but come to CHRIST, he will be willing to receive you, notwithstanding all the persecution you have used towards his members: However, if you are resolved to persist in your obstinacy, remember, salvation was offered to you, that CHRIST and free grace were proposed; but you refused to accept of either, and therefore your blood will be required at your own hands.
I shall only say this unto you, that however you may despise either me or my ministry, I shall not regard it, but shall frequently shew you your danger, and propose to you the remedy; and shall earnestly pity and pray for you, that GOD would shew you your error, and bring you home into his sheepfold, that you, from ravenous lions, may become peaceful lambs.
And as for you, O my brethren, who desire to chuse CHRIST for your Lord, and to experience his power upon your souls, and as yet do not find your desires and prayers answered; go on, and CHRIST will manifest himself unto you, as he does not unto the world; you shall be made to see and feel this love of JESUS upon your souls; you shall have a witness in your own breast, that you are the LORD’s; therefore, do not fear, the LORD JESUS CHRIST will gather you with his elect, when he comes at that great day of accounts, to judge every one according to the deeds done in the body, whether they be good, or whether they be evil: and, O that the thought of answering to GOD for all our actions, would make us more mindful about the consequences that will attend it.
And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you: Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? do not stand out one moment longer; but come and accept of JESUS CHRIST in his own way, and then you shall be taken up at the last day, and be with him for ever and ever: and sure this should make you desirous of being with that JESUS who has done so much for you, and is now interceding for you, and preparing mansions for you; where may we all arrive and sit down with JESUS to all eternity!
Which GOD of his infinite mercy grant, &c.