Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

How often, How often, has he Declared it unto you, That any one gross, Known Sin Lived in, is incompatible to a state of Salvation; but will be Leak enough ⟨p. 224⟩to Sink the Soul; that persisted in it! What mighty Thunderings did you hear from this Pulpit, as from a flaming Mountain, against those things for which the Wrath of GOD comes on the Children of Disobedience? What warnings did he therefore give against the Particular Sins by which he saw the Souls of Men Endangered? But when the Wrath of GOD was Revealed from heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men, in his doing the part of a Reprover, there was especially One Sin that he singled out for his Frequent Fulminations; That was, The Sin of Drunkenness; Brutish, and Baneful, and Woeful Drunkenness; Intemperance in Drinking; A Slavery to the Bottle. Of this, with what Vehemency did he warn the Tippling Tribe, That at the last! At the Last! At the Last! it will Bite like a Serpent, and Sting like an Adder! His, Woe to Drunkards, has been twice Printed among us. Oh, Remember these things, and from the Words of his Lips, which came from the Lips of GOD, Learn to keep yourselves from the Paths of the Destroyer. Afraid of the Wounds whereof he forewarned you, if you do so, oh! Let none of you go on still in your Trespasses! II. Remember how you have Received and heard, That a Real, and Thorough, and Sound Conversion to GOD, is the ONE THING that is of all the most Needful for you. The Sermons which your Pastor Preached, and which have been more than Twice Printed, on ⟨p. 225⟩Mat. XVIII. 3. Except ye be Converted, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; These were not the only Sermons, in which he pressed upon you the Necessity of Turning and of Living unto GOD. The Alienation from GOD, which our Fall has brought upon us, was a Thing so Grievous unto him, that the Necessity of a Regeneration appeared unto him a Thing that could not be too frequently or too earnestly pleaded for. With what loud calls and peals did he Thunder it over you; That you must have a Good Work of Grace wrought in you, and an Holiness without which no Man shall see the Lord; That you must have the Experience of a New Birth, or else it had been Good for you that you had never been Born; That you must become New-Creatures, or else He that made you will not have Mercy on you, and He that formed you will show you no Favour?