appearance actuated with the highest rage. "I have no peace, said he, day nor night, my torment is as great seemingly, as I can endure. God is constantly in my view, and my heart is constantly burning with rage and fury. His eyes, his countenance, his air expressed the same feelings with his words; such a sight I never saw, before or since. Nothing I could say availed any thing unless to increase his rage and enmity. He had, as it appeared to me, the most clear and lively sense of the wickedness of the human heart-of the divine character-of the creature's dependence-and the nature of the future torments, of any person with whom I was ever acquainted. Some of his friends told me, that his distress was sometimes so great, that he would lie down and roll upon the floor, from one side of the room to the other, and groan like a man exercised with excru ciating pain! and cry, Oh! that I could banish from my mind, all thoughts of God for ever and ever. At one time he travelled barefoot in the night, twelve miles in a deep snow. He was followed by the track he had made, and gave as a reason for his conduct, that bodily pain was the only means, by which he could divert his mind from those objects which gave him greater distress than what he experienced in his travel. He therefore did it to mitigate his distress. Oh doleful condition! Oh miserable end of a life of sin, if this were all its misery! but as the happiness of saints is never perfected on earth, so there is no reason for believing that even this dreadful wretchedness, is at all to be compared with

the iniseries of the damned. Words cannot describe, nor imagination even conceive, what will be the remorse of such a soul. Then will the sinner discern for what he lost the fair inheritance of heaven. Then will he see for what poor trifles he sunk his soul to hell. Then will he know what low and base pleasures of a moment, he preferred to eternal life and eternal glory. Oh, how will it wound his soul, to think of grace refus ed, and Christ neglected. Oh, while he blasphemes his God, how will he curse his own self-destroying folly, in choosing the way to hell instead of that to heaven, and sin instead of religion. Oh, how bitter now will be the remembrance of sabbaths wasted! of mercy rejected! of the calls to which he would not hearken, and the admonitions he would not regard! "Is this the hell,"

may the unhappy creature say, "that I was choosing, when I turned a deaf ear to the advice of God! Is this the fruit of my fancied wisdom! and this eternal flame, the end of all my pleasures! Is even this damnation my own choice? Ah! why have some with whom I once met, why have they risen to glory! why have the heavenly gates admitted them to shut me out! They were no better by birth than I; they were not born the heirs of heaven any more than I. Like me they were the children of wrath. Why are they admitted and I shut out? Why are they happy and I miserable? They in heaven and I in hell! Ah! they listened to the Saviour's voice, and I hearkened not. They turned to God, and I refused to turn. They were wise and I distracted; now they are blest and I undone. Wretched creature! and have I sold my soul for a moment's base delight? Have I valued eternal glories at so little a price? Have I preferred the world and the devil to a compassionate Saviour and a gracious God? Alas! I have. Woe is me! All is lost! My soul is lost! and damnation, with all its horrors, must be mine to all eternity."

Sect. 8. Eternity, eternity! this completes the sinner's misery. O young sinner, if once you sink to hell it will make even hell itself more horrid, to think that you must be for ever there, "The intolerableness," says one, "of your pain and torment will make every day seem an age, and every year as long as eternity; and yet you must lie there an eternity of these long years. Had a lost soul in hell, but the faintest hope of deliverance, though at the end of as many millions of ages, as there are drops in the sea, hell would lose half its horrors. There would be some hope of deliverance; but now, alas! Eternity, which might have been the measure of their joys, will be the only measure of their torments. There the fire never shall be quenched. Could a lost soul drop but one tear, one in ten thousand years, and do this till a sea as vast as all the seas on earth together, were filled with tears, all its sufferings, in that long, long period, would be bat the beginning of eternal misery. All those millions of years of wretchedness, would bring the unhappy soul no nearor to an end of its torments, than one poor fleeting

hour."Oh infinitely miserable creature! that when millions of years of sorrow are past, can only say, "These flames again, these tortures again; and when millions more have flown, will still find their miseries beginning; still be looking forward to new ages of misery; and for ever see an eternity of misery still before them.

Were these sorrows to be borne, only for the most numerous course of ages, they would be more supportable; every hour of misery would then bring on an end of all misery; and of the most deeply undone sinner it might be said, that the time would come, when devils should cease from tormenting, and the unhappy should be at rest. Yet, O Eternity! that joyful or dreadful word forbids the hope. Oh pitiable folly of unhappy men, wretched madness of miserable sinners! so wilfully to refuse a Saviour's grace, and so obstinately to plunge into perdition. And, O my young friend! is not this yours? If it is, these sorrows will soon be yours. You may forget how fast eternity comes, but will never forget how slow it goes. Do you not pity those, who, by one wrong step in youth, entail on themselves misfortune and sorrow for life? but O how are you to be pitied who in this short life are ruining an endless one. In this little inch of time, you are bringing a heavy and immoveable curse on a whole eternity. You are doing the worst mischief to your own soul, that hell can wish; and worse than a united hell could do. Satan may tempt you to slight salvation; but he cannot make you do it. O, will you make light of Jesus still? and still refuse your heart to him? Oh, if you do; alas for you, that ever you were born, for when your future wretchedness has lasted, as many millions of miserable years, as there are sands on the sea shore, it will be but the beginning; and when it has continued as many more it will be no nearer ending. A head-ache, or a toothache, or a burning fever for one night are painful; but what is this to a painful eternity? How slowly go your hours when kept sleepless with pain; how long they seem; while you count hour after hour in sad succession, and wish the morning to appear; but there is no easy morning to follow the night of hell. How slowly will go a sad eternity there, when no hope of an end appears. What life of sinful pleasure and neglect of Christ can ever make amends for this? Ilow short is the trifling,

and how long the sorrow. How short the pleasure, and how long the pain. How short the momentary satis faction, and how long the dreadful punishment. The christian, when he looks around, may mourn to think what will be their lot in eternity, whom he sees so carcless of eternity now. These poor creatures,' he may often have to say, unless they repent of their sins, will be lamenting the sinful delights of to-day, ten thousand ages hence; for eternity is theirs.' O my young friend, could you now look to that flaming prison, whose terrors no tongue can express; could you see the livid flame, the darkness visible; could you behold those who were once angels, changed into devils; and the immor> tal spirits, that might have reached heaven, now weltering in the lake of fire; could you see this, you would behold what you, even you, must see ere long, unless you seek that grace which leads to glory. Could you see this, it might then be said to you, "Hither tend the paths of transgression. Hither a youth, spent in folly and vanity has conducted many, here end the pleasures of sin." O flee from destruction; flee from the tempter; flee from all that would charm you to neglect your God, for such charms allure to hell.

CHAPTER XX.

The young Reader entreated to make his lasting

choice.

SECT. 1. Inquiry respecting the young Reader's choice....s. 2, Eight Scriptural marks for self-examination..... 3. Various questions proposed, to assist the Reader in judging what is his spiritual state....s. 4. Youth the period of life for choosing religion....s. 5. The Reader entreated to choose that good part.

SECT. 1. IT was the blessed resolution of Joshua, that whatever others did, he would serve the Lord; a resolution made more than three thousand years ago, but which doubtless yields him satisfaction even to the present hour. And now you have read thus far in this little volume, what is your decision? I have endeav

of the dreadful motives which urge you to embrace the Gospel of the Lord and to lead a life of piety and peace. Yet think not that the half, or even the thousandth part has been told. Faint is the representation, here attempted, of the love of Christ; the worth of the soul; the joys of heaven; or the terrors of hell. Those awful realities, in solemnity and importance, more exceed the account, here given of them, than a thunder clap exceeds the faintest whisper; or than the noon-day sun outshines one glimmering spark. What then, again I ask you, is your decision? Have you chosen? or will you choose the way of life? Perhaps you know that you have not; or perhaps you scarcely know whether you are in the way of life or not. If this be the case, examine yourself by a few plain Scriptural marks; and try your state, before it be tried by the eternal Judge.

Sect. 2.-1. They who are the willing slaves of their sins, are most certainly in the way to destruction. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of the which I tell you beforehand, as 1 have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. He that committeth sin, is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning."

2. They who indulge envy, hatred, malice, or any malevolent passion are most surely in the way to hell. "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he

'Rom. vi. 16; Gal. v. 19, 21; Eph. v. 6; 1 John 1,.8.