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Show .A CALL from Death to Life, and out of the dar~ Wa_ys end TYorfbips of the fPorld, ?vhere the. Seed is held in Bo1ulaue under the Merchants of Ba-o bylon. OH! you my dear Neighbours a~d People iri r he Town of Shipto1J and 14-'lghton, and elfewhere where rhis may come, who have been (pending long your Money i()r that wh!ch is not Bread, and your Labour for that whtch dorh not farisfie, as I have done; Oh! Come buy Wine and Milk without Money and without Price, while ir is held forth ro you, left rhe Day come, rhar y~u - be deprived of it.; for l~ng harh the Spirit of lhe Lord been ftnvi~g w!rh Y?U .Cas ir did with me ) but you have r~ltfted n nme afrer rime becaufe h reftified agamft you, when you went' on in Sin, and reproved in fecret for the Evil of your Doings : Theref<?re you do nor regard ir, bur. fly from it. So, m Bowels of render Love ro you all do I fpeak, and in Love and Piry to your Souls, · prize rhe Love of God, and his render Mercy and Forbearance ro you, that he did nor Cur you off in rhe height o£ your Iniquhy, bur ha[h fpared you um!l r~is Day, rho' you have long taken pleafure m Stn, nor regarding God thar made you; yet barh his t Spirir been {hiving with you many Days and Years (as it did with me ) and .hath reproved you rime afrer rime, fo~ the Evtl , ~f your Doings ; but you regarded 1t nor, tho 1t often called upon you, in Love and Meekn~fs, to dr.-parr from your Iniquiry, and that whtch you have been addiCted to; it harh reproved and C.1lled you that have been additled w Drunk nnefs, Lying and Swearing, to depart from thefe c 26s > thefe Things, for they are Evil ; and it hach called upon you that are Proud and Coverous to depart from . r_hem, and harh reproved yoJ that have been Wtld and Wanton, and gi\"en ra Spores and PJeafures, co depan from rhem and run on. no longer in Vaniry; bur you did not regard u, bur rook Pleafure in Sin. Oh ! confider dear N~ighbours and People, what you have bee? domg ever fince you came to Years ?f M_amnty, and let the Wirnefs of God, which 1s Faithful and True, in . you all arife and an- . f wer, and it will let you fee that you have provoked rhe Lord, and vexed his righreous Soul from D~y to Day, and have prelfed him wirh y~ur S1hs and Iniquiries, as a Cart is preffed wnh Shea~es ; yec harh he born ir wirh Parience, and harh _fuffered long, not willing thar Y?U fhould Penfh and Dye in your Sins; but lhll he hat~ \vaired, Year after Year upon you., ro be GraciOus ro you; bur you have refufed ro return and hearken to his Cail and Counfel but have run on in the broad Way · as you; for~-Farhers have done, fo do ye, an'd follow thetr ~ufioms and Traditions which are Vain, and Will nor Profit you at all in the pay of rhe Lord, when he comes ro call you w an account how yo~1 have fpem your time ; fo, confider, and lay It to Hearr, _b~fore the Evil Day come upon Y?U, left the Sptnr of rhe Lord ceafe lhi-vmg wtth you; for, verily the Day is coming on. a: pace,. that the Spirit of the Lord will ceafe ftnvmg w~rh Man, who purs the Day of God fa~ from htm, then it will be faid, He that ;~ R~ghteom, l~t him ~e Righteous J!ill; and he that i4 Fzlthy, let hzm be Fzlthy j!it. So, dear Friends ar1d People, Y~ung and Old, prize your time, while you have u, and do not flight the Counfd of R thr: |