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Show 28 A _.;zh.mz .~ 3Ch The Feavour works up towards Madnefs and will . {carcely . endure to:be.touch'd And what hope ‘is there of Health whe the Patient ftrikes in with the Difeafe, and flies in the Faceof the Remedy? Ca Religion retrive us? Yes, when we don defpife it But while our Notion ar naught, our Lzves will hardly be otherwife. What can the Affiftance of th Church fignify to thofe .who are mor ready to Rally the Preacher, than Pratif the Sermon ? "To thofe who are overgrow ~with Pleafure, and hardned in Iil Cuftom Who have neither Patience to hear, no Confcience to take hold of ? You may almoft as well feed a Man without a Mouth as give Advice where there's no difpofition to receive it. *Tis true; as long a there 1s Life there's Hope.: Sometime the Force of Argument, and the Grace o God, and the anguifh of Affliction, ma ftrike through the Prejudice, and mak their way into the Soul.. But thefe circumftances don't always meet, and then the Cafe is extreamly dangerous. Fo this miferable Temper, we may thank th Stage in a great Meafure © ~ And therefore, if I miftake not, They have the leaft pretence to Favour, and the moft need of Re pentance, of all Men Living TH u END |