A sermon, occasioned

But This is not all the Good-Speech of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto us; There's some-what more that remains to be said unto us all, [and particularly unto that Condemned Malefactor here who is never to see the Light of another Sabbath in the world] It was a pathetic word of the Apostle to his Corinthians in 2. Cor. 6. 1. We beseech you that receive not the grace of God in vain. Wherefore

USE▪ I▪ I. O Let every one of us now Look unto Jesus Christ by Faith for SALVATION. If he say unto us, Look unto me, let not us be such prodigies of madness as to reply, No, we will not look unto thee. It is a sweet intercourse between God and man, which the prophet prescribes in Jer. 3. 22. where the Call of God is Return ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings: and the Echo of man is, Behold we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God. O that there might now be such a Communion between Christ and us. His Call is, Look unto Me and be saved: let our Return be, Behold we look unto thee, for thou art the Lord our Saviour. Do not, I entreat you, do not give unto the Lord Jesus Christ such a daring and damning Answer as that in Jer. 44. 16. As for the word spoken to us in the Name of the Lord, we will not hearken thereunto. It is a thing declared by the Lord Jesus Christ concerning these Gospel-times Zech. 12. 10. Men shall look upon me and morn. Now shall a like thing be brought to pass within these walls this day? How shall so great a thing as this be gained? A sad part of this Congregation, tis to be doubted, are too much like the Leviathan, Their hearts are as firm as a stone, as hard as a piece of the nether Millstone. The sword of him that layeth at them cannot hold. Alas; what shall be done for them? Unto Thee, O Lord, do I how my knee; O Father of spirits and of mercies,