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If you ask where that place is? I answer, blessed be God, to heaven; if you ask to whom they shall go? I answer, to the spirits of just men made perfect; and, what will be best of all, to Jesus Christ, the heavenly inheritance. If we were not to go to him, what would heaven be? if we were not to see him, what would glory be? I know some people think heaven is a fine place, so it is; but what makes it so, but the presence and joy of the God of glory? I would rather die a thousand deaths, than sacrifice my affections as I have done after I had taken leave of all my friends some years ago at Deptford, I burst out into tears and said, Lord, I would not suffer all I feel for my friends but for thee, then returned to my friends and said, Now the bitterness of death is passed, I am going to be executed, God's will be done. Blessed be God, after death there are no separations, we shall all go to one place; ministers that could not preach in one pulpit, and Christians that could not agree with one another, blessed be God, shall by and by go to one heaven; whether they go to one place or no in this world, does not signify: says one, I go to the Dissenters; another, I go to Church; and a great many Christians judge of one another às infidels, because they are not of one sentiment. A good woman came to me some years ago just as I had done preaching, some people love to be imperti- • nent, what do you think, says she, of Cotton Mather and another minister, one said, I ought to receive the sacrament before my experience was given in, the other said not, and I believe the angels were glad to carry them both to heaven. I

said, good woman, I believe they have not talked about it since, for they will no more talk about these things. We have but one Father, one Holy Ghost, we have lived in one communion of faith ; blessed be the living God, e'er long the angels shall come and call the elect from the east, the west, the north, and the south, to be at home with the Lord,

If this be the case, my brethren, it may support us under all the changes and partings of this mortal state. As I have been in a public character, I suppose I may venture to say, that no one has been called to such frequent partings from God's people as I have: I am going now the thirteenth time over the water; yes, I find what is said of St. Paul is true, he could bear a whipping, not a weeping: what mean you, says he, to weep and break my heart; he never said, whip me and break my back, no, no. All get to one place: what a blessed state! to see one's spiritual father, to see one's spiritual children, and hear them say, such and such a time God begat me to himself by your ministry! what a blessing will it be to hear them say, blessed be God, next to the Spirit I owe my coming here to that servant of thine! and with what ravishment will the minister say, behold me and the children thou hast given me! with what holy triumph will they all then cast their crowns at the foot of the Lamb! with what joy will they cry, grace, grace, when the topstone is brought forth, and how will they then try who shall praise redeeming love and rich free grace in the highest strain! The difference here is you know, that we sing in parts, some sing treble, some tenor, and some base; what then? each part helps the other, were all to sing alike the

harmony would not be complete; however shock -ing it is in this world, all the differences that have been among the people of God, will only make us sing and unite us the better in a future state.

Well, my dear hearers, by this time then I hope you have began to ask, to what place am I going? Suppose now you reason thus; I have heard tonight that all unregenerate persons go to hell, and dwell among the damned; I have heard that all that are born again of God, and all that believe in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile, whether bond or free, all go to dwell with God, with angels, and the spirits of just men måde perfect; I have heard the minister say, though he seems sometimes to ramble in his discourse, that we all go to one place, that is, the grave: I am hastening there, autumn is coming on, the fall of the leaf is approaching, a blast, occasioned by the sudden change of weather, or a surfeit, by feasting too luxuriantly on the fruits of God's bounty; another illness may take me to my long home. I hear of such a one's dying, and of such a one, perhaps in an apopletic, perhaps in a paralytic fit: I am lusty and strong, I am glorying in my strength, but who knows but that may be only making me food for a fever; one would stand it better that was more emaciated than 1 am. If I should be taken this night, am I going the way to hell, or the way to heaven. Adrian, the empeFor, cried out upon a time, My trembling, dear departing soul, whether art thou going? these were his words. Won't you hear an emperor preach, preach on his dying bed, when the silver cords of life are loosed? Conscience, conscience, con. science, thou candle of the Lord, may he help thee to light a poor sinner into a knowledge of

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himself. I charge thee in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of that Saviour, in whose name and by whose power, I trust, I now preach; O conscience! thou faithful monitor, let every one hear their own. Come, if conscience was to speak what would it say? why, that if you are not acquainted with yourself and Christ, you are lost forever. The Americans are the most hospitable people under heaven, they love to entertain strangers, who may be hereby kindly provided. for without going to an inn: I always endeavoured to drop a word for Christ when I came to their houses. I remember Mr. Seeward, and some other good friends were with me; when I first got into the house, I began to talk of Christ; the master of it said, Sir, I believe you are right; can't open a leaf in my bible, but I find I am no Christian would to God all here minded the same leaf! May be, many here say, sir, I scorn your words; well, don't I? don't God tell you that won't do? you are a moral man, but don't love God; you don't get drunk, because it will make your head ach; you don't commit fornication and adultery, which is common among great, and therefore they think God will not pun ish them for it; perhaps you are not a fornicator, lest you should stand in a sheet, though we have no discipline among us now; you don't do these things for fear of maintaining the bastard, or be ing taken up ; but does your obedience proceed from love to God, to Christ, if not, may God convince you of your miserable state before you go hence.

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But, blessed be God, there are numbers of dear souls here, that I hope e'er long to live in one place and to eternal ages with. All hail, my

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low Christians; all hail, my dear brethren and friends; all hail, ye that are children of one parent, born of one Spirit, and bring forth the fruits of the Holy Ghost in your conversation; yet a little while, and we must part; whether I die, or you die, blessed be God, one place shall e'er long hold us; in yonder blessed world we shall e'er long meet, and praise free grace; my brethren, we shall be then for ever with the Lord, for ever one with Christ: and if this be the case, let us comfort one another with these things; and if we are all going to one place, God, of his infinite mercy, keep us from falling out by the way. Don't say, I am of the Foundery; don't say, I am of the Tabernacle; don't spend your time in talking against John Wesley and George Whitefield; don't say, you go to the Tabernacle, I'll go to the Chapel; no, don't speak of Paul and Cephas; God unite us more and more to Jesus Christ; and if you are going to heaven, God help you to travel a little farther than we do. My brethren, let us press forward toward the mark of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus. O that the God of love may fill us with such peace and such joy, that every storm, every trial, every temptation we meet with, may be over-ruled to good for all our afflictions, all our temptations, are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

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If this is not the case with some of you, God convert you to-night. Help me, my dear Tabernacle and London hearers, help me, help me, help me for Jesus Christ's sake. You was once going to hell yourselves, for God's sake endeavour to stop those that are going there: pray for your unconverted friends. Young people, young people,