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"ness ?" If the hour be coming when "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead "shall be raised;" when all the tribes of mankind, and ourselves among the number, shall stand trembling, abashed, and confounded, before the judgment-seat of Jesus Christ, there to receive an irrevocable sentence upon the deeds done in our bodies, "whether they be good, or whether they "be bad;" if this concluding dispensation is to determine the final allotment of mankind through endless ages; what should be the conduct of reasonable and accountable beings under such circumstances, and with such prospects before their eyes? Did the question relate to any very important interest of this life, to the acquisition of a high reward, or the averting of an overwhelming evil, every man would be ready to give an answer to it. He would instantly assert, that no minor objects ought to seduce his attention from the great concern; that his whole mind should be directed, and all his time devoted, to it; that it should form the principal business of his day, and exercise all his waking thoughts by night; that difficulty, opposition, and danger were to be considered as nothing in his estimation and that the utmost caution and diligence, courage and ardour, activity and perse

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verance, would be amply rewarded by future gratification, or ultimate escape. Assuredly, then, if such be the case in temporal affairs, the same reasoning is applicable, in an infinitely higher degree, to the concerns of the soul; to a reward, immense as it is everlasting; to an evil, enduring as it is dreadful!

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"Up," then," and be doing," fellowtravellers to the world beyond the grave; quit yourselves like men" in the strife for eternal life. "Awake! ye that dwell "in the dust" of the earth, grovelling and lost in the sink of low sensual delights or petty worldly interests; deaf to the claims of religion and virtue; and blind to the goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering of God, which leadeth to repentance! "Awake! thou that sleepest," heedless of the promises, and warning, and threatenings of the Scriptures; and dreaming of bubbles that shall quickly burst, and leave thy soul disappointed and desolate; "arise from the dead, and Christ shall

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give thee light!" And, finally, let us, without exception, see "that we walk cir"cumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, "redeeming the time;" exercising with diligence all our own feeble powers in endeavouring to obtain a blessed resurrection,

and "praying with all supplication" for the assistance of God's grace to make those endeavours effectual; so that at the last, when it shall please his holy will to call us from this scene of temporal existence into the unseen eternal world, we may "pass "through the grave and gate of death" to the resurrection of life," "for the "merits of Him who died, and was buried, "and rose again, for us, Jesus Christ our "Lord and Saviour. Amen."

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The SUBSTANCE of the following Sermon was preached, and a small impression of it printed, at Bath, several

years ago.

But as many alterations have since been made in the

original Discourse; and as its Author has been honoured, through the Archdeacon of Wells, with a request from the Clergy present at the Castle-Cary Visitation to print the Sermon preached before them on that occasion, he has ventured to add it to the preceding Discourses.

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