enough for you to attend to it, when you shall feel a greater need of mercy. You all are sinners : you all have a conscious- ness within yourselves that you have done many things whicli you ought not, and left undone many things which you ought to have done : you therefore have in your own bosoms a wit- ness that you need a Saviour : and as in the presence of the Most High God, I declare unto you, that there is no mercy for the young, any more than for the old, but in the name, and through the mediation, of Jesus Christ: "there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we can be saved, but the name of Jesus Christ." Go then to this Saviour, and implore mercy at his hands. Look to him as dying for your sins, and " as reconciling you to God by the blood of his cross." Let every one of you from day to day wash in the foun- tain of his blood, and clothe yourselves with the robe of his un- spotted righteousness, and live altogether upon " his fulness, receiving out of it" continual supplies of all needful grace.]
3. His continual presence with us —
[" God is in every place, beholding the evil and the good." and wherever you are, you should see, as it were, this inscrip- tion written, " Thou God seest me*^." This is a point which you should never forget for one single moment : for it is only by bearing this in mind that you will be kept from the indul- gence of secret sins. When no human eye is upon us, we are apt to think that we may give a greater latitude to our conduct: but we should remember that the darkness is no darkness with God, but the night and the day to him are both alike : " there is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of ini- quity may hide themselves." Oh, if you bear this in remem- brance, you will never do what you know to be wrong, nor utter what you know to be false : you will act in all things as in the immediate presence of your God, and will do nothing but what you believe to be good and acceptable in his sight.]
4. His determination to judge us in the last day —
[God " has appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained, even by liis Son Jesus Christ." In that day all shall be sum- moned to his judgment-scat, the old and the young, the rich and the poor : not one that has ever been born into the world shall then be absent : the child that died in the birth, as well as the man of a hundred years old, shall be svunmoned to receive his everlasting doom, according to what they have done in the body, whether it be good or evil. To those who die before they have attained the knowledge of good and evil, we doubt not but that the mercy of God will be
c Gen. xvi. 13.