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and entreat that they will not too hastily dismiss it from their minds : for verily, it demands from every child of man the most attentive consideration. I know that prejudices do exist, even as they have in all ages existed, against both the Law and the Gospel ; against the Law as severe, and against the Gospel as licentious. But, to every one of you I must say, Take heed to this subject : for " it is your life :" and, in unfolding it to you, I have, with all possible fidelity, " set life and death before you." Let the law, I pray you, have its first work in con- vincing you of sin. Let it then operate effectually to bring you to Christ. And, lastly, let it serve you as a rule, to which your whole life shall be con- formed. Set not yourselves against it in any one of these views : set not yourselves against it, as too harsh in its covenant form, or too lax in its abrogated state, or too strict in its requirements as a rule : but improve it for all the ends for which it has been given ; so shall it work its whole work within you, and bring you in safety to God, to holiness, to glory. But I trust there are amongst us not a few who really " know the law," and approve of it in all its uses. And to them, lastly, I would address myself. To them, in particular, I would say, Be sure that you unreservedly give yourselves up to God. Those who enter not into your views, will judge both of you and of your principles by the holiness of your lives. Let them see in you what the tendency of the Gospel really is : let them see, that " the grace of God, which brings salvation to you, teaches you to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live righteously, and soberly, and godly, in this present world." You will forgive me, if I feel a more than ordinary anxiety about you. On you the honour of God and his Gospel pre-eminently depends : and I am earnestly desirous that you should " walk worthy of your high calling; yea, and worthy of the Lord himself also, unto all pleasing." I would that there should not be a duty either to God or man in which you should be found remiss. Whatever your situation