hastening to death : for the " wrath of God is revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men ;" and the soul that sinneth, it shall die. And let not any one imagine, that this death consists in a mere annihilation : no ; the soul, as to its existence, shall never die : but it will endure a misery of which we can form no conception, a torment in the lake that burnetii with fire and brimstone, which is called in Scripture " the second death." From this however, if we are made the happy instruments of converting a soul to God, we deliver it. What a wonderful thought is this! to deliver a soul from " everlasting burnings !" If we laboured throughout our Vvhole lives, and succeeded but in one instance to accomplish our desire, how richly should we be recompensed! What if the great mass of those whose welfare we had sought, had derided us as weak enthusiasts? the thought of saving one soul from everlasting perdition would compensate all the obloquy that ever could be cast upon us. The truth is, we can form no idea what it must be to spend eternity in weeping and wail- ing and gnashing our teeth in the regions of despair, and un- der the wrath of an offended God. But, if we could form any conception of it, we should need no other inducement to labour day and night in endeavours to guide men into the way of truth, and to save their souls alive.]
2. We shall bide a multitude of sins —
[Who can ever count the sins of an unconverted soul? Yet shall they all be hidden, hidden from the sight of Al- mighty God, " out of the book of whose remembrance they shall be blotted," and from before whose face they shall pass away " as a morning cloud :" yea, God himself will " cast them behind his back into the very depths of the sea," and " will remember them against the sinner no more." Heai- the decla- ration