Who is there among you fearing the LORD? Whose hearts hath the LORD now opened to hearken to the voice of his poor unworthy servant? Surely, the LORD will not let me preach in vain. Who is the happy soul that is this day to be washed in the blood of the Lamb? Will no poor sinner take encouragement from _Saul_ to come to JESUS CHRIST? You are all thronging round, but which of you will touch the LORD JESUS? What a comfort will it be to _Saul_, and to your own souls, when you meet him in heaven, to tell him, that hearing of his, was a means, under GOD, of your conversion! Doubtless it was written for the encouragement of all poor, returning sinners; he himself tells us so: for “in me GOD shewed all long-suffering, that I might be an example to them that should hereafter believe.” Was _Saul_ here himself, he would tell you so, indeed he would; but being dead, by this account of his conversion he yet speaketh. O that GOD may speak by it to your hearts! O that the arrows of GOD might this day stick fast in your souls, and you made to cry out, “Who art thou, LORD?” Are there any such amongst you? Methinks I feel something of what this _Saul_ felt, when he said, “I travail in birth again for you, till CHRIST be formed again in your hearts.” O come, come away to JESUS, in whom _Saul_ believed; and then I care not if the high-priests issue out never so many writs, or injuriously drag me to a prison. The thoughts of being instrumental in saving you, will make me sing praises even at midnight: And I know you will be my joy and crown of rejoicing, when I am delivered from this earthly prison, and meet you in the kingdom of GOD hereafter.
Now to GOD, &c.